Execution staff warned of IV issues during Christa Pike's attempt

🗞️ Story file #860

Execution staff warned of IV issues during Christa Pike's attempt

Oct 22, 10 PM ET to Oct 24, 2 PM ET

13outlets carried it
🫏7 · 2 · 4🐘left · center · right
1.7 dayson the front pages
13front pages at once, at its peak
3 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 22, 10 PM ETfirst on a front page: NBC News
Oct 23, 7 PM ETpeak: on 13 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 22, 10 PM to Oct 24, 2 PM ET (peak 13), 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

“blown”4
“blowing”1

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

🗣️ Only one side says

🫏 left
execution staff warned
pike's execution

🐘 right
lethal injection
botched lethal
pike's executioners

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

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

News Nation (2 wordings): “Execution staff for Christa Pike says IV site might have 'blown' during attempt” → “Christa Pike execution staff says IV site might have 'blown'”

Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating