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Proof: Outgoing prison chief in Christa Pike case oversaw five ‘botched’ executions, lawyers say

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T16:22:51Z","headline":"Outgoing prison chief in Christa Pike case oversaw five ‘botched’ executions, lawyers say","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"guardian","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/03/christa-pike-frank-strada-botched-executions","v":1}

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f424b4642f4eb7c9c2c4857387723bab643aca63a589777b5fca38bc55bf6f0a

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969756, mined 2026-10-03 19:52 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 16:50 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 16:01 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f424b4642f4e.json prints f424b4642f4eb7c9c2c4857387723bab643aca63a589777b5fca38bc55bf6f0a. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f424b4642f4e.json and headline-f424b4642f4e.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-f424b4642f4e.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, 4 min after it was first seen.