Americas / United States · Politics

US death row inmate conscious after failed execution attempt

Rank
Running: 10h
Updated: 32m ago
Momentum: Holding
Outlets: 130
Regions: 5
Countries: 63
Languages: 26

+53

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Daily Sabah, 6 Oct, 20:54 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with Sky News.
Second region: Europe, with Sky News.
Fastest hour: +53 outlets from 6 Oct, 20:54 UTC.
Now: 130 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 63 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

21%15%53%

Africa 7 outlets · 5 countries · 6%
Americas 27 outlets · 13 countries · 21%
Asia-Pacific 20 outlets · 14 countries · 15%
Europe 69 outlets · 26 countries · 53%
Middle East 7 outlets · 5 countries · 5%

First movers

Daily Sabah 6 Oct, 20:54 UTC
Sky News +2m
VG +2m
NBC News +3m
The Independent +4m

Latest arrivals

Arab News 7 Oct, 07:13 UTC
Nile Post 7 Oct, 07:05 UTC
G4Media 7 Oct, 06:59 UTC
Libération 7 Oct, 06:32 UTC
Punch 7 Oct, 06:20 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Woman survives botched execution by lethal injection in Tennessee, 4 to 6 Oct 2026, 45 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 130 outlets in 63 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 130 outlets, 6 state-owned, 15 public-service, 109 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 5: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda. Americas 13: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 14: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 26: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 5: Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Daily Sabah, 6 Oct 2026, 20:54 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 21:00 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 07:13 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 not hard news, unsure. Shown, because it is widely covered and the judgement was unsure. 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: 32.81, 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 Woman survives botched execution by lethal injection in Tennessee. Merged from 2 stories Christa Pike conscious and speaking after botched execution: Attorneys; Death row inmate Christa Pike is awake and speaking after failed execution. 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

6 Oct 2026 2 53.64 80 44 80 44 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 21:00 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 07:13 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 130 outlets

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Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 130 outlets

Africa 7 outlets

Americas 27 outlets

Asia-Pacific 20 outlets

Europe 69 outlets

Middle East 7 outlets