🗞️ Story file #342
U.S. plans to livestream execution By firing squad draw bipartisan and international criticism
Oct 11, 4 PM ET to Oct 12, 5 AM ET
- 7outlets carried it
- 🫏2 · 2 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 13 hourson the front pages
- 7front pages at once, at its peak
- 29 minof TV captions
- 46people retold it online
- 2 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 11, 4 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
- Oct 11, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
- Oct 12, 9 AM ETretold online by 46 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “Barbaric spectacle” “no-brainer”
Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating
Los Angeles Times
U.S. plan to livestream execution by firing squad draws bipartisan, international outrage Oct 9, 4 PM ET
Yahoo News
Republicans break with Hegseth over plan to livestream Fort Hood execution Oct 10, 7 PM ET
CS Monitor
Botched execution and talk of livestream reignite death penalty debate By Patrik Jonsson / 4 min Oct 10, 6 AM ET
The Hill
GOP lawmakers push back on Hegseth decision to livestream execution Oct 10, 6 PM ET
The Washington Times
‘Barbaric spectacle’ or ‘no-brainer’? Lawmakers split over livestreaming an execution Oct 10, 2 PM ET
IJR
Botched Execution, Planned Livestream Reignite US Death-Penalty Debate Oct 11, 8 AM ET
Newsmax
GOP Split on Livestreaming Fort Hood Execution Oct 10, 2 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- TRUMP BACKS OFF "APPROVAL" OF PENTAGON'S PUBLIC EXECUTION CNN, 14 min
- TRUMP REVERSES HIMSELF ON MIDTERM ADS, MAIL VOTING, EXECUTION CNN, 6 min
- SEC. REGOETH ANNOUNCES EXECUTION WILL BE LIVESTREAMED MSNOW, 4 min
- WORLD CONDEMNS U.S. PLAN TO LIVESTREAM EXECUTION MSNOW, 2 min
- CONVICTED MURDERER SURVIVES LETHAL INJECTION Fox News, 73 s
- JUDGE REOPENS PIKE'S CASE AGAINST LETHAL INJECTION Fox News, 54 s
- IS CORRUPTION GOING TO BE A DRIVING ISSUE IN THE MIDTERMS?. David Axelrod | @WN Chief Political Analyst CNN, 33 s
- LEGAL BATTLE AHEAD FOLLOWING BOTCHED TN EXECUTION Fox News, 7 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Livestreaming Nidal Hasan's execution would restore American values, or shows how barbaric the country has become. Oct 12: told by 46 people (same issue)
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Fort Hood
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Fort Hood execution debate
Trump approves public execution of Fort Hood shooter
Oct 11, 4 PM ET
U.S. plans to livestream execution By firing squad draw bipartisan and international criticism (this story)
Oct 11, 4 PM ET
Pope denounces death penalty as U.S. plans livestreamed execution
Oct 10, 2 PM ET
Fort Hood survivors criticize plan to livestream Hasan's execution
Oct 13, 1 AM ET
Trump cancels livestream of Fort Hood shooter's execution
Oct 5, 9 PM ET