🧵 Saga file #5
Christa Pike execution botch
Oct 2, 5 PM ET to Oct 15, 7 AM ET
- 2parts so far
- 58outlets carried a part
- 🫏24 · 11 · 21🐘left · center · right
- 12.6 daysrunning so far
- 214 minof TV captions
- 35radio 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 5, 7 AM ET · on the front pages 1.3 daysTennessee prison chief resigns after failed execution
- Oct 2, 5 PM ET · on the front pages 12.6 days911 calls reveal confusion during Christa Pike's botched execution
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Tennessee prison chief resigns after failed execution
Oct 5, 7 AM ET · 29 outlets · on the front pages 1.3 days
“Tennessee prison system head to resign after failed Christa Pike execution” first: CBS News, NBC News, PBS NewsHour, Scripps News
📺 CNN 10 min · 📻 1 newscast
2. 911 calls reveal confusion during Christa Pike's botched execution
Oct 2, 5 PM ET · 57 outlets · on the front pages 12.6 days
“Christa Pike unconscious and on ventilator after botched execution: Attorneys” first: ABC News, Axios, BBC, Breitbart, CBS News, CNN, Chicago Tribune, Fox News, HuffPost, MSNBC, NBC News, NPR, New York Magazine, New York Post, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, Reason, Reuters, The Daily Caller, The Epoch Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The Washington Times, Townhall, Washington Examiner, Yahoo News
📺 BBC News 118 min, CNN 60 min, Fox News 25 min, MSNOW 2 min · 📻 34 newscasts
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
- 2026-10-09 ✨ Flawed system revealed ×1 Botched execution ×1
- 2026-10-08 Still unconscious ×1 Preserve all the evidence ×1
- 2026-10-07 Botched execution ×1 ✨ Still unconscious ×1
- 2026-10-04 ✨ Botched execution ×1 ✨ Falls on his sword ×1
- 2026-10-03 ✨ Cruelty exposed ×1 ✨ Cruel and unusual ×1 ✨ Preserve all the evidence ×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.