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Julius Mount Bleyer
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Julius Mount Bleyer was the New York doctor who first proposed lethal injection
on 17 January 1888.
Lethal injection
Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide...
on 17 January 1888.