Pan Am 103 bombing suspect won't face death penalty, prosecutors say

Dec 12, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -16% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    34% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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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"Is our government going to release that Iran was involved in this?"
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-10% Liberal
"While a conviction on any of the charges carries the possibility of the death penalty in 2022, federal prosecutor Erik Kenerson told Meriweather his office would not pursue it because the counts were not death-eligible in 1988 when the bombing occurred."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Because if they do, then they got to do something and they didn't want to release information 34 years ago because they didn't want to deal with this, Ammerman said, adding that he has been told by an FBI agent and a Scottish intelligence agent that Iran was involved in the attack."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Federal prosecutors aounced Monday they will not seek the death penalty against a Libyan intelligence officer accused of building the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 killing 270 people, including 190 Americans."
Negative
-26% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% :"Is our government going to release that Iran was involved in this?
43% : While a conviction on any of the charges carries the possibility of the death penalty in 2022, federal prosecutor Erik Kenerson told Meriweather his office would not pursue it because the counts were not death-eligible in 1988 when the bombing occurred.
43% : Because if they do, then they got to do something and they didn't want to release information 34 years ago because they didn't want to deal with this," Ammerman said, adding that he has been told by an FBI agent and a Scottish intelligence agent that Iran was involved in the attack.
37% : Federal prosecutors announced Monday they will not seek the death penalty against a Libyan intelligence officer accused of building the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 killing 270 people, including 190 Americans.

*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.

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