People who survived their own executions

 People who survived their own executions:

1. Death row survivor Romell Broom survived 18 lethal injection attempts as executioners were unable to find a suitable vein. He later died in prison from COVID-19.

2. Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov was a Russian engineer and cosmonaut in the former Soviet space program. 

At 16, during the Nazi occupation of Voronezh, Feoktistov fought with the Soviet Army against the German troops. 

After being captured and shot by a German officer, the bullet passed through his chin and neck without killing him. He later crawled to safety and returned to Soviet lines. 

As a cosmonaut, Feoktistov flew on Voskhod 1, the first spacecraft to carry three crew members. The Feoktistov crater on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.

3. Alva Campbell was an American murderer from Ohio, convicted for the 1997 murder of 18-year-old Charles Dials in Franklin County. On November 15, 2017, Campbell's execution was halted when medical staff couldn't find a suitable vein for the lethal injection. 

He died of natural causes on March 3, 2018, at 69, suffering from cancer, lung disease, asthma, and heart problems.

4. Szymon Srebrnik was a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor of the Chełmno extermination camp – a German Nazi death camp established in occupied Poland during World War II.

Srebrnik escaped after being shot in the back of his head at close range, two days before the Russians arrived in 1945.

5. Willie Francis was an American teenager known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States. He was 17 when he survived the first attempt to execute him, as the chair malfunctioned.

After an appeal of his case taken to the Supreme Court of the United States failed, he was executed in 1947 at age 18.

6. Timofey Mikhailov was a member of the Russian revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya. He was designated a bomb-thrower in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, but did not throw a bomb. 

He was condemned to death and hanged on April 15, 1881, along with four other conspirators. Mikhailov was the second to be executed, but the rope broke twice under his weight. The first time, he fell but quickly stood up and positioned himself for a second attempt. 

The rope snapped again after 1.5 minutes. Finally, he was hanged with a reinforced rope, despite some in the crowd believing the broken ropes were a sign he should be spared.

7. Robert Hébras was one of only six people to survive the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in France, where the SS Panzer Division, Das Reich, slaughtered 643 residents. Men were shot in barns, which were then set on fire. Women and children were killed in a church by grenades and fire. 

Despite being seriously wounded, Mr. Hébras survived by dropping to the floor and later escaping through burning buildings. His mother and two sisters were among those killed.

8. Wenceslao Moguel, a Mexican soldier under Pancho Villa, was captured on March 18, 1915, during the Mexican Revolution and sentenced to death without trial. 

He was shot 8–9 times in the body and received a final point-blank shot to the head, intended to ensure his death. Remarkably, he survived the execution, though he was left permanently scarred and disfigured.

9. Doyle Lee Hamm, a death row inmate in Alabama, was sentenced to death for a 1987 murder. While on death row, he developed lymphatic cancer, complicating lethal injection due to poor venous access. 

Despite warnings, the Alabama Department of Corrections attempted and failed to execute him on February 22, 2018, in a botched three-hour attempt. 

A confidential settlement in March 2018 prevented a second execution attempt, effectively giving Hamm life in prison. He died from cancer-related complications in 2021.