an injection that is intended to kill a person, esp as a method of capital punishment or form of euthanasia
He was executed by lethal injection.
He was scheduled for execution by lethal injection last month.
lethal injection in American English
a hypodermic injection that causes or is capable of causing death, esp., such an injection used to administer the death penalty
Examples of 'lethal injection' in a sentence
lethal injection
When he and three others lingered on they were killed with lethal injections.
Martin Manser COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS (2004)
What is wrong with giving them the lethal injection?
The Sun (2008)
They say lethal injections are barbaric and turn us all into monsters.
The Sun (2014)
They should get a lethal injection.
The Sun (2009)
Lethal injections: cruel and unusual?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Until recently, death by lethal injection was seen as the safest, most humane form of capital punishment.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Execution method: Lethal injection.
The Sun (2014)
Association, on the ground that physicians take an oath to preserve life, the two doctors are understood to have volunteered to attend the lethal injection procedure.