BND - President approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter

🗞️ Story file #123

President approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter

Oct 5, 9 PM ET to Oct 6, 6 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

38outlets carried it
🫏11 · 7 · 19🐘left · center · right
21 hourson the front pages
38front pages at once, at its peak
26 minof TV captions
2radio newscasts
11people retold it online

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 5, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: ABC News
Oct 6, 12 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 6, 4 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 11 people
Oct 6, 6 PM ETpeak: on 38 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 5, 9 PM to Oct 6, 6 PM ET (peak 38), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Allahu Akbar”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 hood terrorist

✏️ 11 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (3 wordings): “Pentagon to execute convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad” → “Pentagon to execute convicted Fort Hood shooter”
BBC (2 wordings): “Fort Hood shooter to be executed by firing squad, in first since World War Two” → “Fort Hood shooter to be executed by firing squad - a first for US military since World War Two”
Breitbart (2 wordings): “Fort Hood Attacker Nidal Hasan to Be Executed by Firing Squad” → “Fort Hood Terrorist Nidal Hasan to Be Executed by Firing Squad”
Just the News (2 wordings): “Pentagon says Trump has approved death by Army firing squad for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan” → “Trump approves execution by Army firing squad for Fort Hood terrorist shooter”
Military.com (2 wordings): “Trump, Hegseth Clear Way for First Army Firing Squad Execution Since 1945 Read More” → “Trump, Hegseth Clear Way for First Military Firing Squad Execution Since 1945 Read More”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump OKs Firing Squad Execution for Fort Hood Shooter” → “Trump OKs Firing Squad for Fort Hood Shooter”
Red State (2 wordings): “Firing Squad, It Is: Trump Approves the Execution for An Enemy of the United States Kyle Becker” → “Firing Squad, It Is: Trump Approves the Execution for An Enemy of the United States”
The Sun (2 wordings): “EXECUTION ORDER Terrorist to be executed by firing squad on Trump’s orders after killing 13 A US serviceman who shouted "Allahu Akbar" before gunning down dozens at an army base will face a firing squad.” → “EXECUTION ORDER Terrorist to be executed by firing squad on Trump’s orders after killing 13”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Fort Hood Terrorist Nidal Hasan Will Be Executed. Here's What We Know.” → “Fort Hood Terrorist Nidal Hasan Will Be Executed. Here's What We Know. Amy Curtis”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Trump approves firing squad execution of 2009 Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan” → “Trump approves firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter”
Yahoo News (3 wordings): “Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan” → “Former Army major who killed 13 in Fort Hood shooting to be executed by firing squad”