He's dead, which is as it should be, so you can't really call it "botched," but it certainly could have been handled better.

Bear in mind here that the sources are Reuters and the AP, but where there's smoke sometimes there really is fire:

Saddam hanging nearly halted over jeers-prosecutor

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior Iraqi court official nearly halted Saddam Hussein's execution when supporters of a radical Shi'ite cleric and militia leader taunted the former president as he stood on the gallows.

Prosecutor Munkith al-Faroon, who is heard appealing for order on explicit Internet video of Saturday's hanging that has inflamed sectarian passions, said on Tuesday he threatened to leave if the jeering did not stop -- and that would have halted the execution as a prosecution observer must be present by law.

"I threatened to leave," Faroon told Reuters. "They knew that if I left, the execution could not go ahead."

Many in Saddam's Sunni minority, and moderate Shi'ites and Kurds, have been angered and embarrassed by the video. In it, observers chant "Moqtada, Moqtada, Moqtada!" for Shi'ite militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr. Saddam by contrast looks dignified on the gallows and replies: "Is this what you call manhood?"

As the Iraqi government mounted an investigation into how officials smuggled in mobile phone cameras, he also challenged the accounts of the justice minister and an adviser to the prime minister who said the film was shot by a guard -- Faroon said one of two people taking video was a senior government official. ...

Iraqi Government Probes Saddam Execution Video 

BAGHDAD, Iraq  —  The prime minister on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the conduct of Saddam Hussein's execution in a bid to learn who in the group of witnesses taunted the former Iraqi leader in the last minutes of his life then clandestinely released a video tape of his death to an Arab satellite television station.

The video captured by a cell phone camera contained audio of some witnesses taunting Saddam with chants of "Muqtada" and of the former leader responding that his tormentors were not being unmanly. It surfaced on Al-Jazeera television and the Internet late Saturday, the day Saddam was hanged shortly before dawn.

The taunts referred to Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric who is a main backer of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Shiite leader who pushed for a quick execution of Saddam.

Sami al-Askar, a close al-Maliki political adviser, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the Iraqi leader had "ordered the formation of an investigative committee in the Interior Ministry to identify who chanted slogans inside the execution chamber and who filmed the execution and sent it to the media." ...

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Christopher Hitchens has more here. Read it. (Hat tip: Allahpundit) He backs up what I thought I remembered reading earlier but couldn't locate a source for. Depending on whether one follows the Sunni or the Shiite calendar, Saddam either was or wasn't hanged after the beginning of the Eid ul-Adha holiday, in violation of Iraqi law. Do read the whole post for more.