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Proof: US murderer Christa Pike unconscious and on ventilator after failed execution, lawyers say

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-02T19:41:55Z","headline":"US murderer Christa Pike unconscious and on ventilator after failed execution, lawyers say","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"bbc","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3kgqw7zvz47o","v":1}

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09895281c3ab071821f4fcad63494d59de8d8a6a3e4665cda66e24d7791c529e

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969632, mined 2026-10-02 20:44 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-02 19:43 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-02 19:59 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-09895281c3ab.json prints 09895281c3ab071821f4fcad63494d59de8d8a6a3e4665cda66e24d7791c529e. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-09895281c3ab.json and headline-09895281c3ab.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-09895281c3ab.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.