
SC Supreme Court: Electric chair, firing squad do not violate the state's constitution
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- Reliability
70% ReliableGood
- Policy Leaning
-32% Somewhat Left
- Politician Portrayal
-31% Negative
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Bias Score Analysis
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
49% : In doing so, the General Assembly ignored advances in scientific research and evolving standards of humanity and decency," Newman wrote.34% : McMaster signed the legislation making electrocution the default method after the state had been unable to obtain the drugs necessary for lethal injection for over a decade after pharmaceutical companies stopped selling their products to be used in executions.
29% : Two years after Gov. Henry McMaster signed legislation making the default method of execution the electric chair, with a firing squad and lethal injection as an alternative "if it is available at the time," the conservative-majority high court reversed a lower court ruling the two execution methods unconstitutional.
*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.