5 definitions
Botched execution (n.) is a killing that failed and a punishment that did not.
Botched execution (n.) is the moment a state finds out its method was a theory.
Botched execution (n.) is filed by the state as a procedure correctly followed, and by the prisoner's body as something else.
Botched execution (n.) is proof that the hard part of the death penalty was never the sentence.
Botched execution (n.) is the only execution the public ever learns the details of; the others are called smooth.