Lethal injection

Quality:

Lethal injection - form of execution involving injection of chemicals into the bloodstream. Article "Lethal injection" in English Wikipedia has 72.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 143 references and 22 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Lethal injection" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Lethal injection", its content was written by 705 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1940 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1705 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4003 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #518 in December 2003
• Global: #2306 in December 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2518 in November 2009
• Global: #4021 in November 2009

There are 36 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Lethal injection		72.3938
2	Chinese (zh) 注射死刑		60.2687
3	German (de) Letale Injektion		37.0964
4	Finnish (fi) Myrkkyruiske		35.5572
5	Uzbek (uz) Oʻlimga olib keluvchi inyeksiya		33.9597
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tiêm thuốc độc		33.3111
7	Simple English (simple) Lethal injection		32.2544
8	Russian (ru) Смертельная инъекция		31.7748
9	French (fr) Injection létale		30.2991
10	Swedish (sv) Giftinjektion		29.431

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lethal injection		12 248 409
2	Spanish (es) Inyección letal		1 834 057
3	Russian (ru) Смертельная инъекция		1 730 311
4	German (de) Letale Injektion		1 648 668
5	French (fr) Injection létale		1 049 669
6	Italian (it) Iniezione letale		1 006 637
7	Japanese (ja) 薬殺刑		844 194
8	Portuguese (pt) Injeção letal		695 424
9	Polish (pl) Zastrzyk trucizny		581 787
10	Chinese (zh) 注射死刑		563 402

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lethal injection		38 222
2	Spanish (es) Inyección letal		7 163
3	Russian (ru) Смертельная инъекция		5 309
4	German (de) Letale Injektion		3 941
5	French (fr) Injection létale		2 945
6	Japanese (ja) 薬殺刑		2 885
7	Portuguese (pt) Injeção letal		1 996
8	Chinese (zh) 注射死刑		1 942
9	Italian (it) Iniezione letale		1 633
10	Polish (pl) Zastrzyk trucizny		1 420

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lethal injection		705
2	German (de) Letale Injektion		181
3	French (fr) Injection létale		160
4	Russian (ru) Смертельная инъекция		94
5	Italian (it) Iniezione letale		80
6	Dutch (nl) Dodelijke injectie		74
7	Chinese (zh) 注射死刑		59
8	Spanish (es) Inyección letal		57
9	Hebrew (he) זריקת רעל		53
10	Norwegian (no) Giftsprøyte		50

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 注射死刑		3
2	English (en) Lethal injection		2
3	Finnish (fi) Myrkkyruiske		1
4	Korean (ko) 독살형		1
5	Arabic (ar) حقنة قاتلة		0
6	Catalan (ca) Injecció letal		0
7	Czech (cs) Poprava smrtící injekcí		0
8	Danish (da) Dødelig indsprøjtning		0
9	German (de) Letale Injektion		0
10	Greek (el) Θανατηφόρος ένεση		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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