lethal injection
Example Sentences
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Thirty-nine of last year's executions were carried out by lethal injection.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
So this summer they put him down by lethal injection, according to Tom Stephenson, who leads the Sierra Nevada bighorn recovery program for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
Proponents of that legislation claimed that nitrogen hypoxia, which had been used only once in an execution, would be simpler and less likely to be botched than lethal injection.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2025
That review comes at a time when states have turned to pentobarbital due to a shortage of other lethal injection drugs.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
But questions about the painlessness and efficacy of lethal injection were emerging.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
