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Proof: Death row inmate’s startling question revealed after execution went terribly wrong

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-02T23:02:32Z","headline":"Death row inmate’s startling question revealed after execution went terribly wrong","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"foxnews","url":"https://www.foxnews.com/us/death-row-inmate-unconscious-ventilator-botched-execution-teens-killing-attorneys","v":1}

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12c8ea13a4662474e36d75540578722fc55541baa2385eb71b9881cf85390e7e

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969645, mined 2026-10-02 23:16 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-02 23:07 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-02 23:08 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-12c8ea13a466.json prints 12c8ea13a4662474e36d75540578722fc55541baa2385eb71b9881cf85390e7e. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-12c8ea13a466.json and headline-12c8ea13a466.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-12c8ea13a466.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, 5 min after it was first seen.