EXECUTION BY SUFFOCATION.
■ The Japanese Government-is considering ike-advisability" of inflicting capital punishment by means of .suffocation — placing the subject in an aijf-tighfc chamber and 'then exTiausfcing the air from tiie chamber bemoans of a pump. Th'o " death '* P^'t ' Vacuiitt * " cjtiamber as ifc is ij?now»;-'- fe- to be an air-tight cell built jn,^ adjoining the prison. Ifc is^tOj be eight feet in hoight, ten feet wrde/aii&teh feet long. The. four ,sides are to have each an 'air-tight window of three-quarter-inch plate glass, co that the operators and prison officials may have -an opportunity to wifcnoss the execution^ and determine the results. The 1 cell will be connected with an airi pump which will have a power of causing the expulsion of air in the* coll in one minute and 40 seconds! thus acting so quickly as not to allow the wretched victim to become suffocated or distressed in even the slightest degree, but, instead; causing almost instantaneous dearth. In fact, it was fhown when Bbi experiment was tried upon a )arg«* St. Bernard dog fchat the animal was dead within a urinate and a' half after the vaciium lia'd bHdB fiomptefced^
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 1
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190EXECUTION BY SUFFOCATION. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 1
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