If there's one thing the Americans have been consistent on, it's executions.Since the 1970s more than 1,500 people have been put death in the USA – without even considering the thousands killed by the state before the 20th century.
But despite the frequency of the procedure, things don't always go to plan and not every execution is a smooth one.Condemned prisoners have suffered horrific extended deaths due to malfunctioning equipment, medical incompetence and sometimes just sheer bad luck.These six botched executions have made the history books for turning what was meant to be a quick death into an agonising ordeal.Jimmy Lee Gray's horrific rape and murder of a three-year-old sent him to the gas chamber in 1983, becoming the first person.
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