The phrase "administered to kill" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the administration of substances or actions intended to cause death, often in medical or legal discussions.
Example: "The drug was administered to kill the cancer cells, but it also had severe side effects."
Alternatives: "given to cause death" or "administered for lethal purposes".
In response to these shortages, some states have begun to discard the 3-drug protocol described above in place of a 1-drug protocol whereby a massive dose of a powerful barbiturate is administered to kill the inmate.
One day after the experimental treatment, an excessive dose of anesthetic, 100 mg/kg body weight ketamine (União Química Farmacêutica Nacional S/A., Embu-Guaçu, SP, Brazil) and 10 mg/kg body weight xylazine (Produtos Veterinários J. A. Ltda., Patrocínio Paulista, SP, Brazil) was administered to kill the mice, corresponding to 5 days after experimental candidiasis induction.
Doctors promptly administered medicine to kill the maggots, and by the next day Li's pain was gone.
Finally, an injection of potassium chloride is administered to induce cardiac arrest, killing the inmate.
In fact, a study performed in 1975 demonstrated that V. cholerae administered to mice orally was killed in the small intestine within 2 hr after inoculation [14].
A 40 ng dose of pimplin administered to adult M. domestica by intrahaemocoelic injection was sufficient to kill all flies tested.
One of them is the "flu shot", which contains a killed influenza virus that is administered to a muscle using a syringe.
She was only saved from a charge of murder because the toxicology tests had not been clear as to which dose of morphine or lethal drugs – the one Lynn administered to herself or the one her mother administered had killed her.
The "shock therapy" administered to cure the ills of the Communist regime instead killed the patient.
For any drug combination, we concluded that the highest concentration of CPT11 should be administered in order to kill a maximum number of cancer cells, despite the triggering of resistance.
When five doses are administered to a mother, it offers her a lifetime protection against an insidious disease that kills before it can be clinically identified and treated.
