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Jury selection begins in federal trial of Payton Gendron in 2022 Buffalo shooting

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Covered by 4 outlets, mostly left-leaning (75%).

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Jury selection was set to begin Tuesday, October 13, in the federal trial of Payton Gendron, who is charged over the May 2022 shooting at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, that killed 10 people. Gendron, 23, is already serving a life sentence in state prison. The federal indictment has 27 counts, including 10 hate-crime counts resulting in death. Gendron has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges after the Justice Department rejected a plea offer that would have spared him execution, and the department pursued the death penalty, according to ABC News and TheGrio. Victims’ families differ on whether he should be sentenced to death.

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What happened

Key points

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  1. Jury selection was set to begin Tuesday, October 13, in the federal trial of Payton Gendron over the 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooting.

    Reported byLeft3Right1See the outletsHide the outlets
    Left
    ABC News, The Guardian, TheGrio
    Right
    New York Post

  2. The shooting at the Tops Friendly Market on May 14, 2022, killed 10 people.

    Reported byLeft3Right1See the outletsHide the outlets
    Left
    ABC News, The Guardian, TheGrio
    Right
    New York Post

  3. Gendron is already serving a life sentence in state prison for murder.

    Reported byLeft3Right1See the outletsHide the outlets
    Left
    ABC News, The Guardian, TheGrio
    Right
    New York Post

  4. The federal indictment has 27 counts, including 10 hate-crime counts resulting in death.

    One side only: the leftReported byLeft2See the outletsHide the outlets
    Left
    ABC News, TheGrio

  5. Gendron has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges after the Justice Department rejected a plea offer that would have spared him the death penalty.

    One side only: the leftReported byLeft2See the outletsHide the outlets
    Left
    ABC News, TheGrio

What is contested

Where accounts differ

Points the coverage does not agree on, and who says what.

  • Whether Gendron should be sentenced to death.

    Families of the victims differ: Wayne Jones says he would not want the death penalty, while some other family members are not totally against it. The defense team is asking jurors to spare Gendron execution.

How each side tells it

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Every side present reports that jury selection began in the federal trial of Payton Gendron over the 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooting. The right-side coverage is a wire report with a different headline, while left-side outlets add detail on the death penalty and victims’ views.

  • the left

    3 outlets

    Headlines lead with jury selection and the start of the trial; TheGrio stresses that the victims were Black and raises the death penalty, and two left headlines carry AP wire copy.

    Federal death penalty trial begins for gunman who killed 10 Black people in Buffalo
    TheGrioLeftAll left-leaning headlines

  • the center

    No coverage yet

    No center outlet that Mantle follows has covered this story yet. That absence is part of the picture.

  • the right

    1 outlet

    The only right-side coverage is a New York Post headline on an AP report, which calls the event a deadly shooting and adds no conclusion of its own.

The words they chose

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  • Left1

    horrific supermarket shooting

  • Center

    Has not covered this story.

  • Right0

    No loaded words in its own voice.

In the outlets’ own words

  • Sensational language

    horrific supermarket shootingMore neutral: fatal supermarket shooting

    The word horrific is the writer’s own judgement of the event rather than a fact about it.

    For Wayne Jones, discussing the horrific supermarket shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., in which a white supremacist killed 10 people, including…

    Used byABC News (Left)

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Side by side

What each side leads with and what it leaves out. Open a side to read its headlines.

From the left

3 outlets

Leads with

  • start of jury selection
  • racial targeting of Black victims
  • possible death penalty
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  • TheGrioLeft

    Federal death penalty trial begins for gunman who killed 10 Black people in Buffalo

    Jury selection is underway as Payton Gendron faces hate crime and firearms charges stemming from the 2022 Tops supermarket massacre.

    Read at TheGrio (opens in a new tab)
  • ABC NewsLeft

    Potential jurors in Buffalo mass shooter's federal trial face death penalty questions

    Potential jurors in the federal trial of Payton Gendron are expected to be questioned by attorneys on Tuesday about their opinions on the death penalty.

    Read at ABC News (opens in a new tab)
  • The GuardianLeftAssociated Press report

    Jury selection begins in hate crimes trial for Buffalo supermarket gunman

    Trial could see white supremacist who killed 10 people in New York state store get the death penalty Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the trial that could see the white supremacist who killed 10 people in a 2022 Buffalo supermarket get the death penalty. …

    Read at The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
  • ABC NewsLeftAssociated Press report

    Jury selection to begin in federal hate crimes trial over supermarket shooting

    Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the trial that could see the white supremacist who killed 10 people in a 2022 Buffalo supermarket get the death penalty

    Read at ABC News (opens in a new tab)

    Also published by New York Post. It counts once.

From the center

0 outlets

No center outlet that Mantle follows has covered this story yet. That absence is part of the picture.

From the right

1 outlet

Leads with

  • federal trial
  • deadly shooting
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Who reported it when

How the coverage built up

  • Left

    First to report

    ABC News, Oct 13, 4:11 AM EDT

  • Center

    No report yet

    From the outlets Mantle follows

  • Right

    9 hr 33 min later

    Its first report, Oct 13, 1:44 PM EDT

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  1. ABC NewsLeftOct 13, 4:11 AM EDT
  2. The GuardianLeftOct 13, 8:14 AM EDT
  3. New York PostRightOct 13, 1:44 PM EDT
  4. TheGrioLeftOct 14, 11:27 AM EDT

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