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 proof that the hard part of the death penalty was never the sentence.
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 the only execution the public ever learns the details of; the others are called smooth.