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lethal injections

lethal injections is the plural of lethal injection.

Meaning of lethal injection

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.
    • 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.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian

Questions about lethal injections

What is lethal injections the plural of?
Lethal injections is the plural of lethal injection.

Words near lethal injections in the dictionary

  1. lethal dose
  2. lethal doses
  3. lethal gene
  4. lethal genes
  5. lethal injection
  6. lethal injections
  7. lethal time
  8. lethal white syndrome
  9. lethal yellowing
  10. lethal zone
  11. lethal zones

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