“He was already officially punished for his crime. Just because the outcome of the punishment didn’t turn out the way the officials desired is irrelevant. Punishing him again IS double jeopardy.”
Even Snopes disagrees with you.
http://www.snopes.com/legal/second.asp
Since when was Snopes the last word on legality or truth? Snopes has been shown to be slanted to the Left.
Nobody is ever sentenced to be "dropped from the gallows" or to receive "a jolt in the electric chair" — a death sentence is phrased such that the guilty party is "to be hanged from the neck until dead" or "to have electric current passed through his body until dead." So if the rope breaks or the electric chair shorts out, the condemned man's reprieve lasts only as long as it takes to correct the problem or schedule another date for execution.
Uncommon common sense from snopes.