lethal injection en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A means of execution or of euthanasia in which a person is injected with a fatal dose of drugs.
Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.
2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
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Translations (5)
cmn 注射死刑 (method of execution) · es inyección letal (method of execution) · pt injeção letal (method of execution) · fi myrkkyruiske (method of execution) · ja 薬殺刑 (method of execution)