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Proof: Christa Pike remains alive hours after Tennessee failed in executing her by lethal injection, her lawyers say

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-01T18:31:18Z","headline":"Christa Pike remains alive hours after Tennessee failed in executing her by lethal injection, her lawyers say","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"independent","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/christa-pike-tennessee-failed-execution-b3060023.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

653b94901c06d5f73519f6124d252d5ae55237be06e931cf5d90340307abad5d

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969481, mined 2026-10-01 18:54 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-01 19:03 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: submit: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-653b94901c06.json prints 653b94901c06d5f73519f6124d252d5ae55237be06e931cf5d90340307abad5d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-653b94901c06.json and headline-653b94901c06.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-653b94901c06.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.