John Louis Evans III, aged 33, was put to death in Alabama after killing a pawnbroker, and was eventually strapped into an electric chair chillingly dubbed "Yellow Mama"

A death row inmate suffered an agonising botched execution after one of the straps on the electric chair snapped - consuming him in flames and creating an odour of "burning flesh".

John Louis Evans III, aged 33, was put to death in Alabama in 1983 after being convicted of killing pawnbroker Edward Nassar during a 1977 robbery spree.

In the days before his death, he was laughing in a holding cell 25 feet from the Holman Prison death chamber and told a prison chaplain he was "ready for death" if the Supreme Court refused to stay his execution.

He was eventually strapped into an electric chair nicknamed 'Yellow Mama' be

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