BND - Pope denounces death penalty as U.S. plans livestreamed execution

🗞️ Story file #321

Pope denounces death penalty as U.S. plans livestreamed execution

Oct 10, 2 PM ET to Oct 12, 12 PM ET

11outlets carried it
🫏3 · 3 · 5🐘left · center · right
1.9 dayson the front pages
10front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
3 of 5parts 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 10, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: Independent Journal Review
Oct 10, 6 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 11, 12 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages
Oct 11, 1 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 10, 2 PM to Oct 12, 12 PM ET (peak 10), 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. 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: “inadmissible” 3 “barbaric promotion of a culture of death” “Inadmissible” 4

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Fox News (4 wordings): “Pope Leo speaks out against death penalty amid US plans to livestream execution” → “Pope Leo speaks out ahead of Pentagon’s planned livestreamed execution”
The Gateway Pundit (2 wordings): “Pope Leo XIV Declares Death Penalty “Inadmissible” as Trump Administration Prepares to Execute Fort Hood Jihadist” → “Soft Pope Leo XIV Declares Death Penalty “Inadmissible” as Trump Administration Prepares to Execute Fort Hood Jihadist”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Pope Leo says death penalty is ‘inadmissible’” → “The Vatican responds to the Pentagon's plans to livestream execution”

Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating