| 单词 | lethal injection |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslethal injection lethal injection n. an injection administered with the intention of killing the recipient, esp. as a means of execution or capital punishment, or for the purpose of euthanasia. ΚΠ 1898 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 190 308 (caption) 24 minutes after lethal injection. Falling pressure, with great irregularity. 1953 G. Reitlinger Final Solution ii. xi. 292 A week before the evacuation..the unfit in the Jewish section of the camp had been selected for a lethal injection. 1977 Philos. & Public Affairs 6 112 Legalizing active euthanasia..is another matter. Apart from the special repugnance doctors feel towards the idea of a lethal injection, it may be of the very greatest importance to keep a psychological barrier up against killing. 1977 Facts on File (Nexis) 6 Aug. 593 Briscoe praised the lethal injection as ‘a more dignified, a more humane means of carrying out the death penalty’. 1997 Independent 7 Jan. i. 8/4 ‘Peace at last,’ were [her]..last words to her husband who sat by her bedside in Darwin, in the Northern Territories, as she administered a lethal injection to herself using a computerised ‘death machine’. < as lemmas |
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