While most commenters praised youth courts for taking a humane approach, reader Beliavsky from Boston (7) wrote, "Letting young criminals (excuse me, 'troubled youths') be judged by other young criminals does not seem right to me.
On a recent morning, Sgt. Luis Berrios, a humane officer with the Pasadena Humane Society, cruised the city in search of possible law violations or animal-related problems.
It said the shooting of free-running badgers at night had not proven effective or humane.
A key supporter of the cull, the British Veterinary Association, has since declared that the government should ban the "free shooting" of badgers at night, judging it would be more humane to trap them before shooting them.
"I am prepared to take the heat for saying let's be humane in enforcing the law," he said on Tuesday night.
For other governors leaning toward a humane solution to this increasingly inhumane problem, last Tuesday night's disaster in Oklahoma may just be enough bad publicity to tip the scales.
Even a slaughterhouse is more humane".
The evening ended with reminiscences by Ms. Dunham, as witty and humane as ever, on everything from computers to a hunger for dance.
You can take the "Reader" to a rally and feel galvanized by Paley's conviction, or you can take it to bed late at night and find pleasure and comfort in her humane prose.
And I wrote back that evening basically saying, "Sounds like a reasonable plan, and a humane approach, and I hope he hears the message, because if he doesn't hear the message we could be vulnerable.
