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Approximately 7% of lethal injection executions are botched in the United States.

A judge used pictures from a botched execution using the electrical chair to convince the state of Florida to not use that method anymore for executions.

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1. Several states in the U.S. have been considering reimplementing the firing squad as a means of execution, because the drugs for lethal injections have been getting harder to acquire, the firing squad often causes a very quick death, and it has historically had a low rate of botched executions.

2. The scene in The Green Mile where Percy intentionally botches Delacroix's execution was based on the actual botched execution of Jesse Tafero, which is speculated to have been intentional for retribution against the convicted cop killer.

3. 2014 was a record-setting year for botched executions by Lethal Injection, mostly due to countries refusing to supply the US with the lethal drugs, leading prisons to use non-FDA approved compounded drugs.

4. From 1890-2010 in the United States, 3% of executions were botched, and lethal injection had the highest botch rate of any method at 7.1%

5. Several of the hangings at the Nuremberg Executions were botched, causing the prominent Nazis to slowly die of strangulation over the course of 14 to 28 minutes instead of breaking their neck.

6. In 1999, murderer Allen Lee Davis' execution was botched. There were also even photos shown of the failed execution attempt from the electric chair where he was reared back against the restraints, allowing for onlookers and observers to see his flesh and blood.

7. In 2011 US pharmaceutical manufacturer Hospira stopped producing the drug sodium thiopental, which till that point was used for all lethal injections. Since then the US prisons have not been able to acquire the drug, which has caused a lot of botched executions.

8. 18yo Stephen Wayne Anderson was incarcerated for burglary and later confessed to 6 contract-killings in Las Vegas. Whilst incarcerated, he killed an inmate and escaped. He was returned to prison for the murder of an 81 year-old piano teacher in a botched burglary and executed in 2002.

9. John C. Woods. Master Sergeant Woods was the primary executioner for 34 American soldiers convicted of crimes during war time. Woods was reported to have botched many of these executions. He was chosen to be the primary executioner for the convicted Nazis of the Nuremberg Trials.

10. During a botched electric chair execution in 1999, blood pouring from the prisoner's face made a cross shape on his shirt. One of the witnesses, future congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite declared this a sign that God had given the execution his blessing.

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The story of William Williams and his botched execution in 1906. The rope was too long and they had to hold him up for more than 14 minutes to kill him.

There's a man on death row in Oklahoma who has been served 3 last meals because the state keeps botching the executions - source

The most botched method of execution is lethal injection, with a 7.12% rate. - source