Sentence examples for humane lethal from inspiring English sources

(On some things I wish they would. I'd love to see more murderers and paedophiles stoned to death or crucified instead of the chic humane lethal injection).

While this method is suitable and effective for recovering escaped pets, consider humane, lethal options for pest control.

Defenders of the Saudi death penalty say beheadings, usually with a single sword stroke, are at least as humane as lethal injections used in the United States.

He added, "There's no therapeutic use of nitrogen gas, and there's no way to ethically or practically test if nitrogen gas is a humane alternative". Lethal injection rose to prominence in the early 1990s and is the primary method of execution in the 32 states that still allow the death penalty.

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

The prisoners had argued that, far from being "humane", death by lethal injection involved the infliction of a great deal of pain and distress, which amounted to "cruel and unusual punishment".

A recent article in The Times pointed to a growing debate among legal and medical experts about the supposedly humane use of lethal injection to kill condemned prisoners, noting that Tennessee recently outlawed use of one of the chemicals for pet euthanasia.

They add that the hunting methods are far more lethal and humane than most of the big-game hunting that takes place in many anti-whaling countries.

In Florida a committee has recommended 37 ways to make lethal injection more "humane".

It was decided that lethal injection was "humane", but it was hidden away.

Now the allegedly more humane execution by injection of lethal chemicals into a prisoner strapped to a gurney is being challenged as cruel and unusual.