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Proof: 'She is alive right now': Latest on Christa Pike after botched execution

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-01T19:01:36Z","headline":"'She is alive right now': Latest on Christa Pike after botched execution","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"usatoday","url":"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/10/01/christa-pike-botched-execution-updates/92035113007/","v":1}

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SHA-256

91ce8d9b9b23fa1cfcac9d2836ac243948e4d37a08c4f64d68640e642127cbfb

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969484, mined 2026-10-01 19:19 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-01 20:29 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-91ce8d9b9b23.json prints 91ce8d9b9b23fa1cfcac9d2836ac243948e4d37a08c4f64d68640e642127cbfb. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-91ce8d9b9b23.json and headline-91ce8d9b9b23.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-91ce8d9b9b23.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.