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Proof: Christa Pike awake, speaking — and shackled to her bed days after botched execution

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T23:43:00Z","headline":"Christa Pike awake, speaking — and shackled to her bed days after botched execution","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"independent","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christa-pike-awake-speaking-failed-execution-b3062420.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

8bf397f6df248f1e1ec66741368f7bcce972e9a9d811fa163f291d69fada7a13

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970258, mined 2026-10-07 00:16 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 23:52 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:not-found.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-8bf397f6df24.json prints 8bf397f6df248f1e1ec66741368f7bcce972e9a9d811fa163f291d69fada7a13. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-8bf397f6df24.json and headline-8bf397f6df24.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-8bf397f6df24.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.