👤 Austin Sarat

3 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
3
2026-09-04 – 2026-10-02
Claims per article
52
157 extracted in total
Hedged claims
6%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
6,317
characters
Writes for The Independent, The Guardian.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Crime & Law
100%
Most-tagged topics
TennesseeAmericaIndependentMissouriTennesseanUSA TodayVolunteerthe Death Penalty Information Center

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
3 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.25 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-02 · The Guardian · Crime & Law
Christa Pike survived her execution attempt. Tennessee must not try again | Austin Sarat
31 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-01 · The Independent · Crime & Law
Christa Pike in critical condition is a reminder botched executions are very common
31 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-04 · The Guardian · Crime & Law
Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions | Austin Sarat
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-04 · The Guardian
Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions | Austin Sarat
🔮 She would be the third person brought to the death chamber in the Volunteer state this year, one of which was stopped after it was botched. assertive
2026-10-01 · The Independent
Christa Pike in critical condition is a reminder botched executions are very common
🔮 Tennessee set out to execute Tony Carruthers on May 21, 2026, but he lived to tell about it. assertive
2026-10-02 · The Guardian
Christa Pike survived her execution attempt. Tennessee must not try again | Austin Sarat
🔮 Later, when the electric chair was in vogue, every now and again, someone would catch fire during an electrocution. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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