#BotchedExecutions | Five Jolts, The Wrong Jacks And A Store Bought Sponge

Podcast: Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories · Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness

Opublikowano: 2026-10-20

Indiana needed five jolts to kill William Vandiver, and Arizona's gas chamber took ten and a half minutes while a TV anchor kept a stopwatch running on Donald Harding. In between, Alabama connected the chair's cables wrong for Horace Dunkins, a synthetic sponge sent flames from under Jesse Tafero's mask in Florida, and both states called it human error. From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: October 20, 2026 <b...