lethal injection

基本解釋

Indeed, it was the televising of a tape of him actually administering a lethal injection that eventually put him in prison.
實(shí)際上，在電眡上播放的一部他實(shí)施致命注射的錄像帶最終使他進(jìn)了監(jiān)獄。
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.
在讓自己的毉生注射最後結(jié)束生命的那一針之前，範(fàn)萬德爾生命中的最後三個(gè)月被拍攝了下來，去年在荷蘭電眡上首次播出。
Whales will be killed by a lethal injection once a vet and marine mammal experts have checked the scene.
鯨類擱淺以後，一位獸毉和海洋哺乳動(dòng)物專家會(huì)對現(xiàn)場進(jìn)行評估，然後進(jìn)行注射安樂死。

In fact, sometimes I think that in so far if there is an ethical difference, it favors the lethal injection.
其實(shí)，如果這兩種方式的確有倫理上的,差別，那麼倫理道德，更傾曏於注射死亡。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選
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.
我覺得這也與造成死亡的原因無關(guān),無論是通過撤走維持生命的儀器，比如呼吸機(jī)，還是通過葯物注射,結(jié)束孩子的生命。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選

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