Painless Death Amendment
To avoid the possible pain which may be associated with execution by lethal injection, and which has occurred on multiple occasions, on behalf of the Imperial Federal Kingdom of Grand, Belluterra, and Malo, I would like to propose the addition of Nitrogen Asphyxiation to the official list of methods of execution approved of by the Union Charter.
Nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, and mostly inert gas that makes up approximately 78% of Adonia's atmosphere. Thus, when a person breathes in nitrogen gas, he will feel no different than if he was breathing the normal atmosphere. However, in a nitrogen chamber, he would be exhaling carbon dioxide without replacing it with oxygen, causing unconsiousness within 30 seconds, and death within minutes. However, because nitrogen is not fatal outside of highly concentrated forms, such as that which may be found in a nitrogen chamber, in the event of a leak, no danger is posed for anyone who may be just outside the chamber. In this way nitrogen asphyxiation differs from lethal injection, which may cause pain for the condemned if things go wrong, and which may take hours, and also from the gas chamber, which always causes pain for the condemned, and which in the event of a leak, danger is posed for all nearby, as it deals with highly poisonous gases
Nitrogen asphyxiation requires no other equipment other than an airtight room or chamber, a supply of pure nitrogen, and a way to introduce the nitrogen into said airtight chamber.
signed,
Sir John Marshall, USNW Minister of Defense and Grandian Ambassador to the United Sovereign Nations of the World
Sir John Marshall, USNW Minister of Defense and Grandian Ambassador to the United Sovereign Nations of the World