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Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company

Only Iran and Afghanistan routinely carry out sentences in public, with Saudi Arabia appearing to have ended practice US politics – live updates If the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, goes ahead with plans to livestream the execution of a soldier radicalised to extremist Islam who killed 13 peop

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Both outlets focus on Pete Hegseth’s reported plan to livestream an execution and the backlash around it. The Guardian US frames it by comparing the US with other countries, saying only Iran and Afghanistan routinely carry out sentences in public and adding that Saudi Arabia appears to have ended the practice. The Hill instead foregrounds the reaction itself, with its headline on a fierce, bipartisan pushback, and does not add that international comparison in the extract.

Written by Crossfiled from the 2 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.

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