Sure this isn't another botched job?

At any rate I have completely botched your big scene.

And America is still paying the price for the botched emancipation of 1865.

I gave you a job to do involving millions and you botched it.

A readily recounted example is the botched attempt to start the DDRR in December 2003.

There are many instances of persons implicated in crimes being released because the investigation was deliberately botched.

I gave her that cover story, the one about Stockholm, but I guess I must've botched it.

There may be proportionately fewer such instances but, as the authors conclude, Botched executions are indisputably an inherent component of the modern practice of capital punishment .

See Marian Borg and Michael Radelet, On botched executions , Capital Punishment Strategies for Abolition, Peter Hodgkinson and William A. Schabas, eds. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 143 168.

Borg and Radelet define botched executions as those involving unanticipated problems or delays that caused, at least arguably, unnecessary agony for the prisoner or that reflect gross incompetence of the executioner.

Amnesty International reported that in 2000 the execution of two men by lethal injection, broadcast live on television had been botched , AI AR 2001, p. 113. See also Deborah Denno, Lethally Humane?

Fifty other security detainees were to be released within two weeks, in accordance with the agreement reached with Jordan after the botched attack. (Ha aretz, Jerusalem Post, 7 October Jerusalem Post, 9 October)

Bo may be heading to jail, but he retains some chance of political rehabilitation should things change dramatically in China. His botched but riveting trial may be over, but the Bo Xilai show will go on.

In the wake of the recent Israeli Jordanian crisis owing to the botched assassination attempt on Mishal in October 1997, the Infrastructure Minister said explicitly that the attempt at liquidation would not occur on Jordanian soil. (The Jerusalem Times, 20 March)

There are immediate reasons why this is so Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert s government is weak and unpopular, mainly due to the botched 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas is even weaker, having lost control of Gaza to Hamas after a violent putsch last year.

However, a detailed study of executions in the United States concluded that botched executions involving possible unnecessary agony for the prisoner have continued to take place since the introduction of lethal injection due to unanticipated disruption of the flow of drugs to the inmate which is frequently the cause of a prolonged death .

First, the exit strategy from monetary and fiscal easing could be botched, because policymakers are damned if they do and damned if they don t. If they take their fiscal deficits (and a potential monetization of these deficits) seriously and raise taxes, reduce spending, and mop up excess liquidity, they could undermine the already weak recovery.

Austerity fatigue in the periphery is clearly evident from the success of anti establishment forces in Italy s recent election large street demonstrations in Spain, Portugal, and elsewhere and now the botched bailout of Cypriot banks, which has fueled massive public anger. Throughout the periphery, populist parties of the left and right are gaining ground.

After eight years of compromised American leadership, a botched war of choice in Iraq, failure to take the lead in global efforts to address climate change, Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, running up a 10 trillion debt, and igniting a global financial crisis America s once glittering model has lost a good deal of its luster and America s leadership has been questioned by many.