List of botched executions

This is a list of botched executions:

List

Before 1900

20th century
  • William Williams (murderer), 1906, hanging. He hit the floor after dropping through the trap door of the gallows. Three men had to hold his body up by the rope for over 14 minutes, until Williams finally died of strangulation
  • Ginggaew Lorsoongnern, 1979, firing squad. She survived an initial round of ten shots and died after a second round of gunfire.
  • Frank James Coppola, 1982, it took two 55-second jolts of electricity to kill him
  • Jimmy Lee Gray, 1983, gas chamber, 8 minutes
  • John Louis Evans, 1983, electric chair, 14 minutes in three charges that left his body charred and smoldering.
  • Alpha Otis Stephens, 1984, the first charge of two-minute, 2,080-volt electricity administered failed to kill him, and he struggled to breathe for eight minutes before a second charge carried out his death sentence.[4]
  • Jesse Tafero, 1990, electrocution. The machine malfunctioned, causing six-inch flames to shoot out of Tafero's head. Three jolts of electricity were required to execute Tafero, in a process that took seven minutes.
  • Donald Eugene Harding, 1992, his asphyxiation in the gas chamber took 11 minutes before death was finally confirmed
  • Pedro Medina, 1997, electrocution. During his execution Medina's head burst into flames filling the death chamber with smoke
  • Allen Lee Davis, 1999, bled profusely from the nose while being electrocuted. Also during his time in the electric chair, Davis suffered burns to his head, leg, and groin area

21st century
  • Joseph Lewis Clark, 2006, lethal injection, the execution took nearly 90 minutes
  • Ángel Nieves Díaz, 2006, lethal injection. He needed an additional dose of drugs to be executed. The whole process took approximately 34 minutes as opposed to the usual 7.5 minutes
  • Romell Broom, 2009, cried in pain after receiving 18 needle sticks during a 2009 botched execution that was called off after two hours.[5]
  • Joseph Wood, 2014, two-hour lethal injection procedure, instead of the usual 10 minutes. He was injected the drug cocktail 15 times, even though one dose was supposed to be sufficient to kill him.
  • Clayton Lockett, 2014, he suffered a heart attack during an execution by lethal injection
  • Doyle Lee Hamm, 2018, was stabbed with needles for more than two-and-a-half hour while the execution team tried to locate a suitable vein. The execution failed
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See also
  • Category:Execution survivors

References
  1. "Executions do not always go to plan - here are 8 times it went horribly wrong..." Sky HISTORY.
  2. "Are these the worst botched executions in history?". HistoryExtra.
  3. Dimuro, Gina (February 5, 2018). "The Grisly, Botched Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots". All That's Interesting.
  4. Carter, Claire (November 10, 2017). "Hideous botched death row executions - including man whose head caught fire". mirror.
  5. Press, Associated. "Convicted murderer Romell Broom survived one execution but he now faces a second". TheJournal.ie.
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