List of botched executions

This is a list of botched executions:

List

Thomas Cromwell, 1540, beheading by axe; Edward Hall wrote that "So paciently suffered the stroke of the axe, by a ragged and Boocherly miser, whiche very ungoodly perfourmed the office."[1]
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1541, the inexperienced executioner hacked at her a total of 11 times before finally decapitating her.[2]
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1587, beheading by axe; it took three blows[3]
William Russell, Lord Russell, 1683, beheading by axe; botched by the infamous Jack Ketch
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1683, beheading by axe; Jack Ketch took between five and eight strokes to kill him
William Duell, 1740, survived his hanging, and was later exiled
Wallace Wilkerson, 1879, died from bleeding 15 minutes after shots being fired but missed his heart
John Babbacombe Lee, 1885, survived three attempts to hang him for murder
William Kemmler, 1890, the first man to be electrocuted using the electric chair. The execution took 8 minutes, blood vessels under the skin ruptured and bled[4]

William Williams, 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, repeatedly banging his head into an iron bar while being gassed.[5]
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.[6]
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

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.[7]
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
Alva Campbell, 2017, executioners were unable to find a suitable vein.
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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