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US to publicly execute former soldier by firing squad

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Running
29h
Updated
10h ago
Momentum
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Outlets
10
Regions
2
Countries
9
Languages
6

Merged into US Pentagon plans to livestream military execution

Financial Times United Kingdom · English 8 Oct, 22:28 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Русский (2) · Magyar (1) · Português (1) · Українська (1) · 日本語 (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 30 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Financial Times, 8 Oct, 22:28 UTC.
  2. Second country: Ukraine, with Unian.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 9 Oct, 09:40 UTC.
  5. Now: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

31 of 31 hours

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The 9 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

30%70%

  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 30%
  • Europe 7 outlets · 6 countries · 70%

First movers

  1. Financial Times 8 Oct, 22:28 UTC
  2. Unian +5h 50m
  3. Vedomosti +5h 51m
  4. Index +6h 59m
  5. The Sydney Morning Herald +9h 21m

Latest arrivals

  1. The Independent 9 Oct, 18:49 UTC
  2. Observador 9 Oct, 16:50 UTC
  3. FNN 9 Oct, 10:13 UTC
  4. Irish Independent 9 Oct, 09:55 UTC
  5. Informburo 9 Oct, 09:40 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
10 outlets in 9 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 10 outlets, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 3: Australia, Japan, Kazakhstan. Europe 6: Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom. 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
English, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian.
Timeline
Earliest article Financial Times, 8 Oct 2026, 22:28 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 23:00 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 18:49 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 Europe, United Kingdom. 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 US Pentagon plans to livestream military 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 US Pentagon plans to livestream military 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.

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Started 8 Oct, 23:00 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 18:49 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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  • The Independent United Kingdom 9 Oct, 18:49 UTC
    US plans for livestreamed execution would put it in company with few nations
  • Observador Portugal 9 Oct, 16:50 UTC
    Fuzilamento de ex-militar será transmitido em direto
  • FNN Japan 9 Oct, 10:13 UTC
    銃殺刑を「ライブ配信」 アメリカ国防長官明らかに 陸軍基地で銃乱射し兵士13人殺害した死刑囚 実施なら第2次大戦後初
  • Irish Independent Ireland 9 Oct, 09:55 UTC
    Explainer: US public executions were once a spectacle before they stopped
  • Informburo Kazakhstan 9 Oct, 09:40 UTC
    США покажут в прямом эфире расстрел убийцы 13 человек
  • The Sydney Morning Herald Australia 9 Oct, 07:49 UTC
    US Army to live stream firing squad execution
  • Index Hungary 9 Oct, 05:27 UTC
    Élőben közvetítik a 13 ember haláláért felelős tömeggyilkos kivégzését Amerikában
  • Vedomosti Russia 9 Oct, 04:19 UTC
    Казнь стрелка с базы Форт-Худ будут транслировать в США в прямом эфире
  • Unian Ukraine 9 Oct, 04:18 UTC
    Вперше з часів Другої світової: у США в прямому ефірі розстріляють військового
  • Financial Times United Kingdom 8 Oct, 22:28 UTC
    US to publicly execute former soldier by firing squad
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