There is one known instance of a botched execution by hanging.

"It was disappointing that it took a botched execution to get attention," she said.

The botched executions have backfired on state officials who want to speed the process of carrying out the death sentence.

The family declared the procedure a botched execution.

His brother Gayan had died here, killed by a highlander during the botched execution of a witch.

The British hangman turned our botched executions into works of art.

"Chain of Desire" is a botched execution of a nifty idea.

The botched execution, carried out in a Queens barbershop, left an 11-year-old boy dead.

In a botched execution the firing squad discharged their weapons at too long a distance so that the condemned men were not killed instantly.

Her botched execution resulted in the decision to replace the gallows with the electric chair in 1890.