Meanings
nounlethal injection (countable and uncountable, plural lethal injections)
plural lethal injections
- countableuncountableA 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
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 注射死刑
- 注射死刑 (zhùshè sǐxíng)method of execution
Finnish myrkkyruiske
- myrkkyruiskemethod of execution
Japanese 薬殺刑
- 薬殺刑 (yakusatsukei)method of execution
Portuguese injeção letal
- injeção letalmethod of execution
Spanish inyección letal
- inyección letalmethod of execution
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APA
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Chicago
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