lethal injection

基本解释

Indeed, it was the televising of a tape of him actually administering a lethal injection that eventually put him in prison.
实际上，在电视上播放的一部他实施致命注射的录像带最终使他进了监狱。
Van Wendel’s last three months of life before being given a final, lethal injection by his doctor w ere filmed and first shown on television last year in the Netherlands.
在让自己的医生注射最后结束生命的那一针之前，范万德尔生命中的最后三个月被拍摄了下来，去年在荷兰电视上首次播出。
Whales will be killed by a lethal injection once a vet and marine mammal experts have checked the scene.
鲸类搁浅以后，一位兽医和海洋哺乳动物专家会对现场进行评估，然后进行注射安乐死。

In fact, sometimes I think that in so far if there is an ethical difference, it favors the lethal injection.
其实，如果这两种方式的确有伦理上的,差别，那么伦理道德，更倾向于注射死亡。
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I don't think it very relevant whether the death comes about because you withdraw life support, like a ventilator, or because you actually decide to end that child's life by giving the child a lethal injection.
我觉得这也与造成死亡的原因无关,无论是通过撤走维持生命的仪器，比如呼吸机，还是通过药物注射,结束孩子的生命。
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In one decision, the court allowed death row inmates to file last-minute challenges to lethal injection.
NPR: High Court Allows Lethal-Injection Challenges
Dahlia, what exactly do these death row inmates say is the matter with the lethal injection process?
NPR: Slate's Jurisprudence: Cruel, Unusual Injections?

an injection of a drug that kills someone, especially as a punishment for committing a crime