 His definition of "botched" was an execution that deviated from the established execution protocol in a manner that “involv[ed] unanticipated problems or delays that caused, at least arguably, unnecessary agony for the prisoner or that reflect[ed] gross incompetence of the executioner.” The page features a list and brief description of botched executions in the modern U.S. death-penalty era, which included 51 examples as of March 1, 2018.In 2008, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in "Baze v. Rees", a case challenging the three-drug cocktail used for many executions by lethal injection.The respondent's lawyer, Roy T. Englert, Jr., criticized DPIC's botched executions list, on the grounds that a majority of the executions on it “did not involve the infliction of pain, but were only delayed by technical problems", such as difficulty in finding a suitable vein.