Sentence examples for humane forms from inspiring English sources

Indeed, it may be argued that to resort to violence is to admit to a failure of imagination and to give up hope that more humane forms of problem solving and conflict resolution can be effective.

We would hardly regard a king who executes every law-breaker, the jaywalker no less than the murderer, as just; nor would we feel much better if, in an effort to fit the punishment to the crime, the king should reserve the more "humane" forms of execution for the jaywalker.

The Washington-based organization argues that billions of federal tax dollars could be saved if the government locked up fewer illegal immigrants with no history of committing violent acts, and let them petition for legal status while remaining free in their jobs and with their families under "humane" forms of monitoring, such as electronic ankle-bracelets.

The Internet of Sound needs to be a humane form of communication: that is, one that respects users by putting the human ear first and foremost. .

Clark opts for the property model, if in a humane form.

There is no excuse for the state's employing anything but the most humane form of lethal injection.

Justice Ministry officials, for their part, insist that their system of secret executions is the most humane form of capital punishment.

The guillotine may have been a more "humane" form of death than the drawing and quartering of the ancien régime, but its rituals were not.

In written answers to questions prepared by the Senate intelligence committee, Brennan defended drone strikes as a more humane form of warfare.

In the wake of a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma last month, a Utah lawmaker says he believes a firing squad is a more humane form of execution.

Slavery in the south was "a bad institution", he said, but possibly "the mildest, most humane form of slavery ever practiced".