lethal injection

English

Noun

lethal injection (countable and uncountable, plural lethal injections)

1. A means of execution or of euthanasia in which a person is injected with a fatal dose of drugs.
   • 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

method of execution

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 注射死刑 (zhùshè sǐxíng)

• Finnish: myrkkyruiske (fi)
• Japanese: 薬殺刑 (yakusatsukei)
• Portuguese: injeção letal f