lethal injection

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lethal injection

noun lethal injections

  1. 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.

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noun method of execution

Españolinyección letal
日本語薬殺刑 yakusatsukei
中文注射死刑 zhùshè sǐxíng
Portuguêsinjeção letal

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@misc{lethal_injection_2026,
  title = {lethal injection},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lethal%20injection},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}