killer whose eyes popped open and a bloke who violently vomited as his body jerked.The oldest man currently on America's Death Row escaped execution at the last minute on Thursday after his lethal injection was botched with a cocktail of drugs that 'would have tortured' Oscar Smith, his lawyers claim.
Triple killer Smith joins a list of 276 US Death Row residents to have had their execution go awry since 1890. Since Frank J.
Coppola from Virginia went up in flames during his death by electrocution in 1982, methods of execution in America have modernised but are still not without mishaps.
Over the last decade alone several cold-blooded killers have either suffered unintentional excruciating pain from lethal injection or been able to dodge it altogether.
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