Death row inmate describes constant pain after failed execution

🗞️ Story file #1169

Death row inmate describes constant pain after failed execution

Oct 30, 10 AM ET to Oct 31, 6 AM ET

36outlets carried it
🫏16 · 7 · 13🐘left · center · right
20 hourson the front pages
36front pages at once, at its peak
5 minof TV captions
10radio newscasts
24people retold it online
4 of 4parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 30, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 30, 10 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 30, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 30, 11 PM ETpeak: on 36 front pages
Oct 31, 5 AM ETretold online by 24 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 30, 10 AM to Oct 31, 6 AM ET (peak 36), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

“I'm deeply hurt”2
“There is pain in my mind and in my soul”2
“compares himself to Jesus”1
“confused and in pain”1
“DIRTY WORK”1
“Don't know what's next”1
“Healing is not the same as being okay”1
“Confused and in pain”2

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

🗣️ Only one side says

🫏 left
nothing of its own

🐘 right
death row

phrases three or more outlets on one side used and none on the other

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 14 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (3 wordings): “Christa Pike says she is 'recovering' after botched execution in new statement” → “Christa Pike issues 1st statement after surviving botched execution”
AP (2 wordings): “Christa Pike describes constant pain in first statement since her failed execution” → “Christa Pike describes constant pain in first statement since her failed execution - AP News”
BBC (2 wordings): “US inmate Christa Pike says she woke up 'confused and in pain' after failed execution” → “What's in Christa Pike's first public statement since botched execution?”
CNN (3 wordings): “Breaking News Christa Pike, in first public comments since botched execution: ‘Healing is not the same as being okay’” → “Christa Pike makes first public comments since botched execution: ‘Healing is not the same as being okay’”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Death row killer Christa Pike describes waking up after execution she never expected to survive” → “Christa Pike describes life after botched execution in first account since survival”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “Christa Pike Releases First Statement Since Botched Execution Attempt” → “Christa Pike Releases First Public Statement Since Surviving Botched Execution”
Just the News (2 wordings): “Woman convicted of torturing and killing victim says she's in constant pain after botched execution” → “TN death row inmate Christa Pike describes constant pain in first statement since failed execution”
Mediaite (2 wordings): “‘Pain in My Mind and Soul’: Convicted Killer Christa Pike Speaks Out for First Times Since Botched Execution” → “‘Pain in My Mind and Soul’: Convicted Killer Christa Pike Speaks Out in First Public Statement Since Botched Execution”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Christa Pike says there is ‘pain in my mind and in my soul’ one month after her failed execution” → “Christa Pike says there is ‘pain in my mind and in my soul’ after failed execution”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Christa Pike breaks silence on botched execution: ‘I don’t know what comes next’” → “Christa Pike breaks silence on botched execution, reveals she’s in pain every day: ‘I don’t know what comes next’”
The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “Christa Pike Makes 1st Comments Since Botched Execution” → “Christa Pike Makes 1st Comments Since Failed Execution”
The National Desk (2 wordings): “'Confused and in pain': Christa Pike speaks out for first time on failed execution attempt” → “Christa Pike seeks end to isolation in prison infirmary after failed execution attempt”
The Sun (2 wordings): “HELL ON EARTH Christa Pike breaks silence & says 'there's pain in my mind and my soul' after returning to jail from botched execution” → “'DIRTY WORK' Christa Pike death row doctor 'compares himself to Jesus' in 1st interview”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Christa Pike describes pain in first public statement since botched execution” → “Christa Pike speaks on botched execution in first public statement”