Sentence examples for bungled execution from inspiring English sources

The death in Oklahoma on Tuesday of Clayton D. Lockett, amid struggling and apparent pain, was not the country's first bungled execution.

In an impassioned statement, Wood's lawyer, Dale Baich, said: "Arizona appears to have joined several other states who have been responsible for an entirely preventable horror - a bungled execution.

The most recent example, and one of the most obnoxious, is legislation passed in a lame-duck session of Ohio's legislature last month following the shockingly bungled execution a year ago of Dennis McGuire, a convicted murderer who choked, gasped and writhed for 26 minutes before succumbing.

In what may have been the most horrifically bungled execution in United States history, the state of Ohio in 2009 inserted an IV needle into a prisoner 18 times before finally giving up.

The bungled execution Tuesday night in Oklahoma — drugs meant to kill a convicted murderer did not, though he later died of a heart attack — may fuel a rise in the percentage of people who are troubled by the death penalty.

Perhaps the struggling Pierrepoint imagined was that which occurs at the end of a rope after a bungled execution.

The reasons behind the bungled executions vary.

The surveys were conducted in October and September, well after the bungled executions occurred.

Maybe, though similar incidents have happened in real life (bungled executions; undercover policemen starting families).

Ohio, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee are among the states that have recently carried out executions using a combination of three drugs that includes midazolam, which is a common sedative but has become controversial for its use in unusually lengthy or bungled executions.

HO CHI MINH CITY — As a form of capital punishment, lethal injection has led to bungled executions in which the condemned have grimaced or groaned in apparent pain, had violent reactions to the drugs, or waited hours as executioners failed to find a vein.