Americas / United States · Conflict & Security

Death row inmate Christa Pike survives botched execution in Tennessee

Rank: 32
Running: 29h
Updated: 46m ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 159
Regions: 5
Countries: 66
Languages: 28

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: El Sol de México, 6 Oct, 17:02 UTC.
Second country: Turkey, with Daily Sabah.
Second region: Middle East, with Daily Sabah.
Fastest hour: +54 outlets from 6 Oct, 20:54 UTC.
Now: 159 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 66 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

25%14%47%

Africa 12 outlets · 7 countries · 8%
Americas 39 outlets · 13 countries · 25%
Asia-Pacific 23 outlets · 15 countries · 14%
Europe 75 outlets · 26 countries · 47%
Middle East 10 outlets · 5 countries · 6%

First movers

El Sol de México 6 Oct, 17:02 UTC
Daily Sabah +3h 52m
Sky News +3h 54m
VG +3h 54m
NBC News +3h 54m

Latest arrivals

El Observador (CR) 7 Oct, 22:45 UTC
Tengrinews 7 Oct, 22:40 UTC
Expreso (EC) 7 Oct, 22:34 UTC
Neue Zürcher Zeitung 7 Oct, 19:22 UTC
Hespress 7 Oct, 19:11 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: 159 outlets in 66 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 159 outlets, 6 state-owned, 16 public-service, 137 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 7: Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia. Americas 13: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 15: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, 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: Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article El Sol de México, 6 Oct 2026, 17:02 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 21:00 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 01:32 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: 4.14, 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 3 stories Christa Pike conscious and speaking after botched execution: Attorneys; Death row inmate Christa Pike is awake and speaking after failed execution; Death row inmate Christa Pike survives lethal injection 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

7 Oct 2026 3 53.78 159 66 119 59 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 21:00 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 01:32 UTC

Merged from 3 stories

Covered by 159 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
6 Oct 2026	2	53.64	80	44	80	44	4.6
7 Oct 2026	3	53.78	159	66	119	59	4.6

Merged from 3 stories

Covered by 159 outlets

Africa 12 outlets

Americas 39 outlets

Asia-Pacific 23 outlets

Europe 75 outlets

Middle East 10 outlets