TIL There was case in US where a person failed to die during electric chair execution and then his lawyers tried to argue that he was not dead but he had been executed and that it was cruel to go through a second time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_ex_rel._Francis_v._Resweber
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