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Trump backs live broadcast of Fort Hood shooter's firing squad execution

Rank: –
Running: 44h
Updated: 6h ago
Momentum: –
Outlets: 13
Regions: 3
Countries: 11
Languages: 7

Merged into Trump says he will decide on livestreaming Fort Hood shooter's execution

G1 Brazil · Portuguese 9 Oct, 16:05 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Español (5) · +5 languages

Read at G1

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: G1, 9 Oct, 16:05 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Clarín.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 9 Oct, 16:05 UTC.
Second region: Europe, with Het Laatste Nieuws.
Now: 13 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 11 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

54%38%

Americas 7 outlets · 5 countries · 54%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 8%
Europe 5 outlets · 5 countries · 38%

First movers

G1 9 Oct, 16:05 UTC
Clarín +55m
Estadão +2h 19m
Prensa Libre +3h 30m
Het Laatste Nieuws +5h 45m

Latest arrivals

RPP 11 Oct, 06:01 UTC
FNN 11 Oct, 00:15 UTC
Rai News 10 Oct, 11:39 UTC
Der Spiegel 10 Oct, 07:14 UTC
RTP 10 Oct, 07:10 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter, 6 to 7 Oct 2026, 21 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 13 outlets in 11 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 13 outlets, 2 public-service, 11 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru. Asia-Pacific 1: Japan. Europe 5: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal. 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, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article G1, 9 Oct 2026, 16:05 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 16:30 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 06:01 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 of its own. It was merged into Trump says he will decide on livestreaming Fort Hood shooter's execution, and the map counts it only inside that story. 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 Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter. Merged into Trump says he will decide on livestreaming Fort Hood shooter's 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

9 Oct 2026 392 2.72 5 3 5 3 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 9 Oct, 16:30 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 06:01 UTC

Covered by 13 outlets

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RPP Peru 11 Oct, 06:01 UTC
Donald Trump dice que él decidirá si se transmite en directo la ejecución del militar
FNN Japan 11 Oct, 00:15 UTC
トランプ大統領 13人兵士殺害の元軍医の銃殺刑生配信「最終的には私が判断する」
Clarín Argentina 10 Oct, 23:10 UTC
Trump dice que él decidirá si se transmite en directo la ejecución del militar
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- Trump dice que el militar cuya ejecución será retransmitida "se lo merece" 9 Oct, 17:00 UTC
Rai News Italy 10 Oct, 11:39 UTC
Pena di morte ed esecuzione pubblica, non si placa la polemica in Usa
Der Spiegel Germany 10 Oct, 07:14 UTC
Donald Trump äußert Verständnis für Liveübertragung von Hinrichtung
RTP Portugal 10 Oct, 07:10 UTC
Administração Trump lança dúvidas sobre execução ao vivo de militar por um pelotão de fuzilamento
Onet Poland 10 Oct, 03:11 UTC
Donald Trump popiera transmisję na żywo z egzekucji strzelca z Fort Hood
Semana Colombia 10 Oct, 03:06 UTC
Donald Trump confirma que aprobó la ejecución retransmitida del hombre que mató a tiros a 13 personas
Estadão Brazil 9 Oct, 22:32 UTC
EUA recuam e Trump diz que não sabe se vai transmitir execução de condenado por massacre
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- Trump diz que atirador é ‘maníaco’ e ‘merece’ fuzilamento; EUA devem transmitir execução ao vivo 9 Oct, 18:23 UTC
Infobae Argentina 9 Oct, 22:15 UTC
AMP2- Trump confirma que aprobó la ejecución retransmitida del atacante de Fort Hood
Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 9 Oct, 21:50 UTC
Trump is “absoluut voorstander” van executie door vuurpeloton in Texas, maar nam nog geen besluit over live uitzending
G1 Brazil 9 Oct, 21:26 UTC
Fuzilamento nos EUA: Trump diz que apoia transmissão ao vivo de execução de condenado
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- Ex-militar é 'maníaco' e 'merece' ser executado por fuzilamento, diz Trump 9 Oct, 16:05 UTC
Prensa Libre Guatemala 9 Oct, 19:34 UTC
“Se lo merece” la reacción de Trump a la decisión de retransmitir el fusilamiento de un hombre en Texas