🧵 Saga file #5
Christa Pike execution botch
Oct 2, 5 PM ET to Oct 6, 6 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 2parts so far
- 52outlets carried a part
- 🫏21 · 10 · 19🐘left · center · right
- 4 daysrunning so far
- 19 minof TV captions
- 12radio newscasts
- 39people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 2, 5 PM ET · on the front pages 4 daysTennessee inmate survives botched execution attempt
- Oct 5, 7 AM ET · on the front pages 1.3 daysTennessee prison chief resigns after failed execution
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🧩 The parts
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1. Tennessee inmate survives botched execution attempt
Oct 2, 5 PM ET · 50 outlets · on the front pages 4 days · 🔴 now
“Christa Pike unconscious and on ventilator after botched execution: Attorneys” first: ABC News, Axios, BBC, Breitbart, CBS News, CNN, Chicago Tribune, Fox News, HuffPost, MSNBC, NBC News, NPR, New York Magazine, New York Post, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, Reason, Reuters, The Daily Caller, The Epoch Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The Washington Times, Townhall, Washington Examiner, Yahoo News
📺 Fox News 5 min, CNN 4 min · 📻 11 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 39
2. Tennessee prison chief resigns after failed execution
Oct 5, 7 AM ET · 29 outlets · on the front pages 1.3 days
“Tennessee prison system head to resign after failed Christa Pike execution” first: CBS News, NBC News, PBS NewsHour, Scripps News
📺 CNN 10 min · 📻 1 newscast
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- Christa Pike remains unconscious and on a ventilator in a hospital after a botched execution attempt in Tennessee. told by 33 people, on “Tennessee inmate survives botched execution attempt”
🧩 Botched execution - A woman is being executed by lethal injection, but the process failed and she is now in critical condition. told by 6 people, on “Tennessee inmate survives botched execution attempt”