A means of execution or of euthanasia in which a person is injected with a fatal dose of drugs.(noun)
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Use "lethal injection" in a sentence
"Has it occurred to you, if the lethal injection was given during the operation, how extraordinarily favourable the mise en scène was for the murderer?"
"Hernando Williams, after exhausting sixteen years of appeals, was executed by lethal injection in 1995."