🧵 Saga file #33
Execution livestream controversy
Oct 5, 9 PM ET to Oct 18, 12 PM ET
- 5parts so far
- 70outlets carried a part
- 🫏32 · 14 · 22🐘left · center · right
- 12.6 daysrunning so far
- 273 minof TV captions
- 21radio newscasts
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 11, 4 PM ET · on the front pages 2 hoursTrump approves public execution of Fort Hood shooter
- Oct 11, 4 PM ET · on the front pages 13 hoursU.S. plans to livestream execution By firing squad draw bipartisan and international criticism
- Oct 10, 2 PM ET · on the front pages 1.9 daysPope denounces death penalty as U.S. plans livestreamed execution
- Oct 13, 1 AM ET · on the front pages 17 hoursFort Hood survivors criticize plan to livestream Hasan's execution
- Oct 5, 9 PM ET · on the front pages 12.6 daysTrump cancels livestream of Fort Hood shooter's execution
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Trump approves public execution of Fort Hood shooter
Oct 11, 4 PM ET · 5 outlets · on the front pages 2 hours
“Trump on planned public execution of Fort Hood shooter: ‘He deserves it’ … ‘maniac’” first: One America News Network
2. U.S. plans to livestream execution By firing squad draw bipartisan and international criticism
Oct 11, 4 PM ET · 7 outlets · on the front pages 13 hours
“U.S. plan to livestream execution by firing squad draws bipartisan, international outrage” first: Los Angeles Times
📺 CNN 21 min, MSNOW 6 min, Fox News 2 min
3. Pope denounces death penalty as U.S. plans livestreamed execution
Oct 10, 2 PM ET · 11 outlets · on the front pages 1.9 days
“Pope Attacks Death Penalty as US Plans Livestream Execution: ‘Inadmissible’” first: Newsweek
📺 MSNOW 70 s, Fox News 38 s · 📻 1 newscast
4. Fort Hood survivors criticize plan to livestream Hasan's execution
Oct 13, 1 AM ET · 8 outlets · on the front pages 17 hours
“Fort Hood survivors speak out on Pentagon's decision to livestream Hasan's execution” first: ABC News
📺 CNN 7 min
5. Trump cancels livestream of Fort Hood shooter's execution
Oct 5, 9 PM ET · 69 outlets · on the front pages 12.6 days
“Pentagon to execute convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad” first: ABC News, Just the News, New York Post, News Nation, Red State, The Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Washington Examiner
📺 CNN 105 min, BBC News 96 min, Fox News 30 min, MSNOW 6 min · 📻 20 newscasts
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
- 2026-10-16 ✨ They backed down ×1
- 2026-10-14 Caligula ×1 Bread and circuses ×1 The new dark ages ×1
- 2026-10-13 Render unto Caesar ×1
- 2026-10-12 Cruel and unusual ×1 The new dark ages ×1
- 2026-10-11 ✨ Pious hypocrite ×1 Caligula ×1 ✨ Render unto Caesar ×1 ✨ Bread and circuses ×1 ✨ The new dark ages ×1
- 2026-10-09 Showman politician ×1 Caligula ×1
- 2026-10-07 ✨ Showman politician ×1 ✨ Caligula ×1 ✨ Cruel and unusual ×1
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.