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Christa Pike execution attempt in US raises death penalty questions

Rank
Ran
36h
Updated
2d ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
3
Countries
8
Languages
7

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Al Jazeera Qatar · English 3 Oct, 11:32 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Español (2) · Deutsch (1) · Nederlands (1) · Suomi (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · Српски (1) · +5 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 37 hours.

2 4 6 8
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: NU.nl, 2 Oct, 04:05 UTC.
  2. Second country: Cyprus, with Alphanews.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Al Jazeera.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 3 Oct, 12:49 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

37 of 37 hours

Earlier Later

The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

25%63%12%

  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 25%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 5 countries · 63%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%

First movers

  1. NU.nl 2 Oct, 04:05 UTC
  2. Alphanews +4h 55m
  3. Die Zeit +18h 25m
  4. Al Jazeera +31h 27m
  5. Iltalehti +32h 44m

Last to join

  1. El Observador (CR) 3 Oct, 17:00 UTC
  2. Blic 3 Oct, 13:39 UTC
  3. Prensa Libre 3 Oct, 13:22 UTC
  4. Iltalehti 3 Oct, 12:49 UTC
  5. Al Jazeera 3 Oct, 11:32 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Death row inmate Christa Pike executed after 30 years, 29 Sept to 1 Oct 2026, 5 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 8 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 1 state-owned, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Costa Rica, Guatemala. Europe 5: Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Serbia. Middle East 1: Qatar. 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, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, Dutch, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article NU.nl, 2 Oct 2026, 04:05 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 04:40 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 17:00 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
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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 Death row inmate Christa Pike executed after 30 years. Continued by Christa Pike case: Failed execution puts death penalty under scrutiny; Utrpení Christy Pikeové. Kolik poprav ji ještě čeká; UN rights chief calls for no further execution attempts against Christa Pike. 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 322 3.56 3 3 3 3 4.0
3 Oct 2026 135 5.89 8 8 5 5 4.0

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Started 2 Oct, 04:40 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 17:00 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • El Observador (CR) Costa Rica 3 Oct, 17:00 UTC
    Lo que la fallida ejecución de Christa Pike revela sobre la pena de muerte en EE.UU.
  • Prensa Libre Guatemala 3 Oct, 13:22 UTC
    Lo que la fallida ejecución de Christa Pike revela sobre la pena de muerte en EE.UU.

Europe 5 outlets

  • Blic Serbia 3 Oct, 13:39 UTC
    (VIDEO) 30 godina čekala smrtnu kaznu, sada se BORI ZA ŽIVOT: Evo ko je napravio KOBNU GREŠKU i šta se zapravo desilo tokom neuspešnog pogubljenja
  • Iltalehti Finland 3 Oct, 12:49 UTC
    Käykö Christa Pikelle samoin kuin kuolemaan­tuomitulle Tonylle? Kohu yltyy Yhdysvalloissa
  • Die Zeit Germany 2 Oct, 22:30 UTC
    Fall Christa Pike: Gerichtsantrag enthüllt Details zu gescheiterter Hinrichtung
  • Alphanews Cyprus 2 Oct, 09:01 UTC
    Περί θανατικής ποινής: Η περίπτωση της Christa Pike
  • NU.nl Netherlands 2 Oct, 04:05 UTC
    Explainer | Christa Pike overleefde de doodstraf: wat is er gebeurd?

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Al Jazeera Qatar 3 Oct, 11:32 UTC
    The double standards of a failed execution
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