"lethal injection" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A means of execution or of euthanasia in which a person is injected with a fatal dose of drugs."
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          "euthanasia",
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhùshè sǐxíng",
          "sense": "method of execution",
          "word": "注射死刑"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "method of execution",
          "word": "myrkkyruiske"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "yakusatsukei",
          "sense": "method of execution",
          "word": "薬殺刑"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "method of execution",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "injeção letal"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "lethal injection"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "lethal injection"
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          "ref": "2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian",
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        "A means of execution or of euthanasia in which a person is injected with a fatal dose of drugs."
      ],
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          "euthanasia",
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  "translations": [
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhùshè sǐxíng",
      "sense": "method of execution",
      "word": "注射死刑"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "method of execution",
      "word": "myrkkyruiske"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yakusatsukei",
      "sense": "method of execution",
      "word": "薬殺刑"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "method of execution",
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      "word": "injeção letal"
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  "word": "lethal injection"
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