There seems to be a very broad definition of "botched executions":
December 9, 2015. Georgia. Brian Keith Terrell. Lethal Injection. “[I]t took an hour for the nurse assigned to the execution to get IVs inserted into both of the condemned man’s arms. She eventually had to put one into Terrell’s right hand. Terrell winced several times, apparently in pain.”
Most of these lethal injection ones are caused by the people administering the injection being completely inept when injecting, or using the wrong amount.
I would rather have a "botched" lethal injection than have the electric chair screw up.
Maybe using anesthesia prior to administration would be a good way, since they won't be conscious in case you do have a hard time with a vein or something like that.
Although, personally, I'm become extremely cynical about the death penalty in general; despite advocating for it before, I think I might have flipped my position to where maybe we should prohibit execution of criminals. I'm not 100% prepared to say that yet, but I'm leaning that way.
It is inconceivable to me. We haven't had the death penalty here for over 50 years. Without even going into the actual moral question of whether it is right to execute someone, people are still being convicted of crimes they didn't commit.
Until there is a way to absolutely 100% determine who committed a crime, the death penalty shouldn't even be considered.
For me this is actually comforting, there has been some debate of the efficacy of lethal injection with botched and prolonged deaths . At least it's pretty safe to say someone is dead if they've been shot or electrocuted.