Ohio could follow Alabama's lead, begin nitrogen gas executions under proposed bill | KBAK
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-60% Very Liberal
- Politician Portrayal
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "Until that decision is made, this system is a testament to government impotence." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The chemical drugs used for lethal injections have been increasingly difficult for states to procure, as some manufacturers refuse to sell them due to the association with execution and others -- particularly those in Europe -- are baed from selling them outright due to the association." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Juries impose death sentences on those responsible for heinous murders, and then the state spends years debating, reviewing, appealing and failing to act on those decisions." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Yost and Louis Tobin, head of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, have expressed growing frustration with Ohio's unofficial moratorium on executions, purportedly because the state caot obtain the needed drugs to carry out lethal injection without exposing itself to legal action." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Lethal injection appears to us to be impossible from a practical point of view today, DeWine told the Associated Press in a 2020 year-end interview." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "I just don't think there has been any kind of sense of urgency to take action in this area, DeWine said in a story published last week by the USA Today Ohio Network Bureau." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Yost -- looking to succeed DeWine as governor in the 2026 election -- expressed impatience with that kind of viewpoint in his 2023 aual report on capital punishment in Ohio, which he called a broken system." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "A spokesman for DeWine noted Tuesday morning that the governor has said a bill would have to move before he would offer comment." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The bill, sponsored by Republican state Reps. Brian Stewart and Phil Plummer, would require that the nitrogen hypoxia pioneered in Alabama last week be used in cases where lethal injection drugs are not available." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "DeWine repeatedly has said he still supports the death penalty, just questions its value and deterrence." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Ohio hasn't executed anyone since July 18, 2018, while John Kasich was governor when Robert Van Hook was given a lethal injection for killing another man in Cinciati back in 1985." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Yost, Stewart and Plummer's move comes after Gov. Mike DeWine appeared to indicate a lack of interest in taking up any considerations about capital punishment in the state." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "Yost, Stewart and Plummer's move comes after Gov. Mike DeWine appeared to indicate a lack of interest in taking up any considerations about capital punishment in the state." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
42% : Until that decision is made, this system is a testament to government impotence.38% : The chemical drugs used for lethal injections have been increasingly difficult for states to procure, as some manufacturers refuse to sell them due to the association with execution and others -- particularly those in Europe -- are banned from selling them outright due to the association.
36% : Juries impose death sentences on those responsible for heinous murders, and then the state "spends years debating, reviewing, appealing and failing to act on those decisions.
35% : Yost and Louis Tobin, head of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, have expressed growing frustration with Ohio's unofficial moratorium on executions, purportedly because the state cannot obtain the needed drugs to carry out lethal injection without exposing itself to legal action.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.