How can veterinarians humanely put down animals regularly but prisons struggle with performing lethal injections reliably?
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The contention with reliable has more to do with the humane aspect. Your vet may very well be subjecting your older animal to a feeling of paralyzed strangling with consciousness of everything around them. The importance of making sure that this is not happening is not as great as it is with a human, in relatively good health that you are killing. [Side note: I am not going to debate the justification for or against the death penalty, since the motivation for ending the suffering of an animal and sentencing a convict is morally vastly different in its own right.]
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