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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points — indicating near-consensus neutral framing. The vast majority of headlines followed a straightforward factual pattern, reporting that Pike was "discharged from hospital" or "released from hospital" after a "botched execution" or "failed execution attempt," with several citing attorney sources. The sole exception was one *New York Times* headline — "After Christa Pike's Botched Execution, Tennessee's Lethal Injection Protocol Draws Scrutiny" — which scorers flagged as leaning slightly left, not through overt advocacy but by shifting focus from the individual event to systemic institutional critique of Tennessee's lethal injection protocol. The word "scrutiny" signals a questioning frame absent from other outlets. That said, this difference is minor; even the Times ran a second headline indistinguishable in tone from the rest of the field.