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US Pentagon plans to livestream military execution

Rank: 94
Running: 31h
Updated: 1h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 29
Regions: 3
Countries: 20
Languages: 12

Financial Times United Kingdom · English 8 Oct, 22:28 UTC

The earliest of 8 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (9) · +10 languages

Read at Financial Times

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Die Zeit, 8 Oct, 22:25 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with Financial Times.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Asahi Shimbun.
Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 9 Oct, 03:42 UTC.
Now: 29 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 20 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

17%76%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 4%
Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 3 countries · 17%
Europe 22 outlets · 15 countries · 76%
International 1 outlet · 3%

First movers

Die Zeit 8 Oct, 22:25 UTC
Financial Times +2m
Süddeutsche Zeitung +2h 10m
SRF +2h 16m
The Asahi Shimbun +3h 11m

Latest arrivals

Iltalehti 10 Oct, 00:36 UTC
SBS News 9 Oct, 21:02 UTC
Blick 9 Oct, 18:29 UTC
Der Spiegel 9 Oct, 17:15 UTC
Observador 9 Oct, 16:50 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 29 outlets in 20 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 29 outlets, 6 public-service, 23 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Uganda. Asia-Pacific 3: Australia, Japan, Kazakhstan. Europe 15: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: German, English, Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian.
Timeline: Earliest article Die Zeit, 8 Oct 2026, 22:25 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 22:40 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 04:34 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, United States. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 1.59, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Merged from 2 stories Pentagon reports plan for military execution livestream in Texas; US to publicly execute former soldier by firing squad. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

9 Oct 2026 54 9.73 28 19 27 19 4.6

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Started 8 Oct, 22:40 UTC · Updated 10 Oct, 04:34 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 29 outlets

Pin outlets you trust with ☆ and they come first in every story.

Der Spiegel Germany 10 Oct, 04:34 UTC
Pete Hegseth: Die US-Regierung will eine Hinrichtung live übertragen. Ist das ein Zivilisationsbruch?
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- USA: Bischöfe und Uno kritisieren Liveübertragung von Hinrichtung 9 Oct, 17:15 UTC
Iltalehti Finland 10 Oct, 00:36 UTC
Järkytys teloituksesta suorassa lähetyksessä leviää
SBS News Australia 9 Oct, 21:02 UTC
'Opressive dictatorships': Outrage as US plans to livestream a military firing squad
The Independent United Kingdom 9 Oct, 18:49 UTC
US plans for livestreamed execution would put it in company with few nations
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- Livestreaming first firing squad execution in decades ‘no brainer’, Hegseth says 9 Oct, 05:54 UTC
Blick Switzerland 9 Oct, 18:29 UTC
«Werden dafür sorgen, dass die Leute zusehen können»
Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany 9 Oct, 17:32 UTC
Öffentliche Hinrichtung: Unter Trump begeben die USA sich auf das Niveau des IS
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- USA-Newsblog: Bericht: Pentagon beabsichtigt Livestream von Militärhinrichtung 9 Oct, 00:35 UTC
Observador Portugal 9 Oct, 16:50 UTC
Fuzilamento de ex-militar será transmitido em direto
RTL Nieuws Netherlands 9 Oct, 15:08 UTC
Een executie wereldwijd livestreamen, mag dat zomaar?
SRF Switzerland 9 Oct, 14:46 UTC
Hinrichtung im Livestream – Wie Pentagon-Chef Pete Hegseth die Aufmerksamkeit lenkt
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- Durch Erschiessungskommando – Militärhinrichtung in Texas: Pentagon plant offenbar Livestream 9 Oct, 00:41 UTC
- Durch Erschiessungskommando – Livestream soll Militärhinrichtung in US-Bundesstaat Texas zeigen 9 Oct, 00:41 UTC
Politico Europe International 9 Oct, 13:51 UTC
Dutch PM slams ‘absurd’ US decision to livestream execution
Die Zeit Germany 9 Oct, 13:35 UTC
Hinrichtung in den USA: Ein weiterer Akt der Selbstbarbarisierung Amerikas
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- Militär: US-Kreise: Livestream soll Militärhinrichtung zeigen 8 Oct, 22:25 UTC
Blic Serbia 9 Oct, 13:24 UTC
'Vojno streljanje će biti prenošeno uživo', kaže Pentagon
Tagesschau Germany 9 Oct, 12:29 UTC
USA wollen Erschießung von verurteiltem Attentäter live übertragen
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- USA wollen Hinrichtung von Attentäter per Livestream übertragen 9 Oct, 02:33 UTC
Neue Zürcher Zeitung Switzerland 9 Oct, 12:28 UTC
Zurück in den Wilden Westen? Hegseth möchte Hinrichtung live übertragen
Nile Post Uganda 9 Oct, 11:32 UTC
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says
France 24 France 9 Oct, 10:56 UTC
Pentagon vows to livestream first military execution in decades
Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany 9 Oct, 10:55 UTC
Hinrichtung Live: Schule der Grausamkeit
FNN Japan 9 Oct, 10:13 UTC
銃殺刑を「ライブ配信」アメリカ国防長官明らかに陸軍基地で銃乱射し兵士13人殺害した死刑囚実施なら第2次大戦後初
Irish Independent Ireland 9 Oct, 09:55 UTC
Explainer: US public executions were once a spectacle before they stopped
Informburo Kazakhstan 9 Oct, 09:40 UTC
США покажут в прямом эфире расстрел убийцы 13 человек
The Sydney Morning Herald Australia 9 Oct, 07:49 UTC
US Army to live stream firing squad execution
ORF Austria 9 Oct, 06:31 UTC
Hegseth will Militärhinrichtung live streamen
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- US-Militär will Hinrichtung live streamen 9 Oct, 04:14 UTC
Index Hungary 9 Oct, 05:27 UTC
Élőben közvetítik a 13 ember haláláért felelős tömeggyilkos kivégzését Amerikában
Vedomosti Russia 9 Oct, 04:19 UTC
Казнь стрелка с базы Форт-Худ будут транслировать в США в прямом эфире
Unian Ukraine 9 Oct, 04:18 UTC
Вперше з часів Другої світової: у США в прямому ефірі розстріляють військового
LRT Lithuania 9 Oct, 04:14 UTC
JAV planuoja tiesiogiai transliuoti Hudo bazėje mirtinus šūvius paleidusio vyro egzekuciją
RMF24 Poland 9 Oct, 03:42 UTC
Egzekucja na żywo w USA. Pentagon ujawnia szczegóły
The Asahi Shimbun Japan 9 Oct, 01:37 UTC
死刑執行を「ライブ配信」、米政府が異例の公開へ銃殺予定の元兵士
Financial Times United Kingdom 8 Oct, 22:28 UTC
US to publicly execute former soldier by firing squad