Keyword topic
201 articles from 28 news outlets, Sep 27 to Oct 26
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention death penalty, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned death penalty, from the most left-leaning on top: how high it rises each day is the share of that source's stories that mention it.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Who picked it up when
The New York Times mentioned it first (Sep 28, 2026, 3:31 PM EDT). Right-leaning outlets followed 2 days later, least biased outlets 3 days later.
One row per source that mentioned death penalty, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories that mention death penalty, Sep 27 to Oct 26, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| Democracy Now! | 1.3% | 1 | 76 |
| Vox | 0.8% | 1 | 126 |
| The New York Times | 1.4% | 16 | 1187 |
| TIME | 0.7% | 2 | 273 |
| NBC News | 1.3% | 9 | 680 |
| The Guardian | 0.4% | 4 | 950 |
| The Atlantic | 1.8% | 5 | 275 |
| ProPublica | 2.0% | 1 | 51 |
| Axios | 2.1% | 8 | 374 |
| NPR | 1.8% | 7 | 395 |
| Bloomberg | 0.4% | 2 | 473 |
| PBS NewsHour | 2.8% | 16 | 569 |
| Semafor | 0.4% | 2 | 455 |
| The Hill | 1.2% | 14 | 1133 |
| Los Angeles Times | 1.1% | 1 | 92 |
| UPI | 0.5% | 1 | 219 |
| NewsNation | 1.4% | 3 | 209 |
| CBS News | 1.7% | 25 | 1517 |
| Washington Examiner | 0.2% | 1 | 420 |
| The Washington Times | 0.2% | 1 | 467 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 1.6% | 2 | 128 |
| New York Post | 0.9% | 20 | 2344 |
| The Daily Caller | 1.0% | 5 | 505 |
| National Review | 2.0% | 4 | 196 |
| The Daily Wire | 2.1% | 18 | 853 |
| Newsmax | 0.8% | 3 | 391 |
| Fox News | 0.6% | 14 | 2433 |
| Breitbart | 0.8% | 15 | 1826 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention death penalty, Sep 27 to Oct 26, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning12 of 15 sources
- 1.1%
- Least biased4 of 8 sources
- 0.4%
- Right-leaning12 of 15 sources
- 0.9%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +0.3: covered about evenly across the spectrum
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that mention death penalty. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
4 sources have no MBFC bias score and are not shown.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as death penalty, Sep 27 to Oct 26: the share of its articles that also mention them, with the number of shared articles.
The search icon lists the articles that mention both.
Example articles
The article that features death penalty most, per source.
- Democracy Now!"Cruel & Torturous": Christa Pike in Critical Condition After Botched Tennessee Execution
- VoxFlorida’s uniquely horrifying death penalty system
- The New York TimesNewsom Mulls Sparing Lives of All 563 Prisoners on Death Row in California
- TIMETennessee Reviews Lethal Injection Process After Botched Execution
- NBC NewsChrista Pike unconscious and on a ventilator after failed execution
- The Guardian‘It speaks very poorly of us as a society’: Lawrence Wright on his book on death row and redemption
- The AtlanticA Terrible Way to Die, a Terrifying Way to Survive
- ProPublicaI’ve Covered Death Row Cases for Nearly a Decade. What Happened to Christa Pike Wasn’t an Anomaly.
- AxiosPete Hegseth says public can watch Fort Hood shooter's execution
- NPRAmid talk of public execution, public opinion on death penalty is split
- BloombergBurkina Faso Revives Death Penalty as Junta Battles Insurgency
- PBS NewsHourMany states have backup execution plans, but failures still happen
- Semafor'Richly observed' profiles on death row
- The HillGavin Newsom can commute all California death sentences and still become president
- Los Angeles TimesCommentary: Public executions are the work of tyrants. Now, the U.S. is joining in
- UPIFlorida executes Vietnam veteran for 1986 sheriff's deputy murder
- NewsNationDeath penalty: Is it justice or cruelty? | The Truth of the Matter
- CBS NewsIdaho mom who blamed vaccines for twins' deaths facing death penalty
- Washington ExaminerSupreme Court backs Pentagon’s decision to revoke plea agreement with three alleged 9/11 plotters
- The Washington TimesAlabama Gov. Kay Ivey spares death row inmate, citing doubts about evidence
- The Wall Street JournalSee How the Death Penalty in the U.S. Is Changing as Executions Soar
- New York PostFurious cops plead with Gavin Newsom to halt death penalty commutation: ‘Worst of the worst’
- The Daily CallerRON HART: Democracy and the Death Penalty: One Man, One Volt
- National ReviewThe Pope’s Death Penalty Stance Is Unconvincing
- The Daily WireUAE To Seek Death Penalty For Flydubai Terrorist: REPORT
- NewsmaxPoll Finds Divide Over Retrying Failed Executions
- Fox NewsMom accused of slaughtering husband, toddler at Great Wolf Lodge could face death penalty: PI
- BreitbartDemocrat Roy Cooper Took Man Who Raped, Killed Elderly Woman Off Death Row
All articles
Every article that mentions death penalty, Sep 27 to Oct 26. Relevance says how central it is to the article; ● marks a mention in the title. Combine with another keyword, text or sources.