The bloody history of botched executions — including cop-killer whose head exploded — after Christa Pike survived

Data from the Death Penalty Information Center indicates that approximately 3% of U.S. executions between 1890 and 2010 were botched.
Roughly 3% of all US executions in the century between 1890 and 2010 were botched, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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