Americas / United States · Politics

Christa Pike remains critically ill after botched execution

Rank
Ran: 2d
Updated: 29h ago
Final
Outlets: 62
Regions: 5
Countries: 39
Languages: 14

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New York Times United States · English 2 Oct, 18:37 UTC

The earliest of 33 English reports

Read it also in Español (6) · +12 languages

Read at New York Times

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: NU.nl, 1 Oct, 20:15 UTC.
Second country: United States, with New York Times.
Second region: Americas, with New York Times.
Fastest hour: +11 outlets from 2 Oct, 19:20 UTC.
Last article: 62 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 39 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

23%22%45%

Africa 3 outlets · 3 countries · 5%
Americas 14 outlets · 8 countries · 23%
Asia-Pacific 14 outlets · 10 countries · 22%
Europe 28 outlets · 15 countries · 45%
Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 5%

First movers

NU.nl 1 Oct, 20:15 UTC
New York Times +22h 22m
The Independent +22h 43m
NBC News +22h 48m
The Sydney Morning Herald +23h 6m

Last to join

ANSA 4 Oct, 17:04 UTC
Adevărul 4 Oct, 16:38 UTC
Lrytas 4 Oct, 15:51 UTC
Estadão 4 Oct, 15:32 UTC
Citizen Digital 4 Oct, 15:08 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection execution in Tennessee, 30 Sept to 2 Oct 2026, 177 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 62 outlets in 39 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 62 outlets, 4 state-owned, 5 public-service, 53 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 3: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa. Americas 8: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Jamaica, United States, Uruguay. Asia-Pacific 10: Australia, Bangladesh, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Vietnam. Europe 15: Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. 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: Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article NU.nl, 1 Oct 2026, 20:15 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 20:30 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 17:05 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 Politics. 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: 0.03, 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: Continues Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection execution in Tennessee. Continued by Pēc neveiksmīgas nāvessoda izpildes ASV notiesātā Krista Paika joprojām kritiskā stāvoklī; Christa Pike’s lawyers had warned execution would be ‘difficult and perhaps cruel’ due to her veins. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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

2 Oct 2026 37 21.23 23 15 23 15 4.0

3 Oct 2026 15 35.44 46 29 24 21 4.0

4 Oct 2026 99 5.17 62 39 12 8 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 20:30 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 17:05 UTC

Covered by 62 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
2 Oct 2026	37	21.23	23	15	23	15	4.0
3 Oct 2026	15	35.44	46	29	24	21	4.0
4 Oct 2026	99	5.17	62	39	12	8	4.1

Covered by 62 outlets

Africa 3 outlets

Americas 14 outlets

Asia-Pacific 14 outlets

Europe 28 outlets

Middle East 3 outlets