How to delete already imported photos?

So, I connected my camera to my computer and ran iPhoto to import some of the pictures. Since most of them were videos, I left my computer to do the import overnight. My camera doesn't charge while importing, so it turned off, luckily my selected photos and videos were already imported. In the morning, I couldn't pick the option of deleting my imported photos from my device (the camera was already disconnected from my Mac). Is there any way of deleting these automatically? An option of deleting already imported pictures and videos when I connect my camera?
Thanks in advance.

use the camera's format command to reformat and erase the memory card
a best practice to is to never have any computer program (including iPhoto) delete the photos from the card but to import the photos and keep them and then after at least one successful backup cycle has completed and then reformat the card --  I use three very large (32 GB) cards in rotation so I do not reformat for typically a year or more giving me one more long term backup of my photos
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