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2 arrested deaths of 8 puppies left outside a humane society

homesafetytechpros — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:41:54 +0000

Top: Seth Vaile. Bottom: Samuel Allen (Jasper County Sheriff’s Office). Right: The plastic tote the dogs were left in. (Jasper County Humane Society).

Two Missouri men face charges in connection with leaving eight puppies to die of heat exhaustion in a sealed plastic tote outside a local humane society that was closed for the day.

Seth Vaile, 30, faces eight counts of animal abuse. Samuel Allen, 36, also faces charges in the ongoing investigation, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

The heartbreaking discovery was made on Sunday when workers from the Jasper County Humane Society opened the tote and found the dogs dead outside the facility at 140 E. Emperor Lane.

Deputies launched an investigation after being called out to the humane society on Monday at 11:40 a.m. for an animal abuse case, according to a probable cause statement outlining the allegations. Once there, the deputy said the caller reported finding the tote on the property between two bushes. A veterinarian determined the dogs died due to heat exhaustion, the statement said.

Facility surveillance footage showed a man leaving the tote on the ground between bushes and then walking away on Sunday at 10:27 a.m., police said.

“The tote was placed partial between some bushes, halfway on the sidewalk, and in the sun,” the document said. “The tote was closed, which caused it to be completely sealed.”

Authorities quickly identified the man in the video — wearing a shirt with the number 54 on the back — as Vaile.

He was arrested on a warrant and transported to the Jasper County Detention Center, the document said.

“The suspect was still wearing the shirt with the number 54 on the back at the time of his arrest for the warrant,” the document said.

The probable cause statement said Vaile admitted to dropping the puppies off and knew the business was not open.

Connie Andrews, the Humane Society’s director, said on Facebook: “I don’t often comment on pets being left outside the shelter as I’m glad they at least chose to leave them where they will be found and cared for. But to the person that left these 8 puppies in a closed tote outside the shelter in a place that is not easily seen, we found them but all 8 have died. Why did you not leave them by the door where they could be found?”

“I do not understand leaving them where we could not see them,” she added. “We may be full but would never turn these babies away and if it’s the drop off fees that forced someone to do this, we have never turned puppies away even if their owner could not pay. We have actually been fixing the moms for free when taking the puppies. I am asking for your help to spread the word that this is NOT OKAY!”

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Alabama ready to help other states with ‘humane’ nitrogen executions after gas caused inmate to ‘shake and writhe’

homesafetytechpros — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 18:45:42 +0000

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Alabama ready to help other states with ‘humane’ nitrogen executions after gas caused inmate to ‘shake and writhe’

By Debra Cassens Weiss

January 30, 2024, 8:58 am CST

Alabama is ready to help other states carry out “humane” nitrogen gas executions after using it for the first time Thursday to kill inmate Kenneth Smith, the state’s attorney general has said. (Image from Shutterstock)

Alabama is ready to help other states carry out “humane” nitrogen gas executions after using it for the first time Thursday to kill inmate Kenneth Smith, the state’s attorney general has said.

Republican Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall called the execution “humane” in a Jan. 25 press release, even though a report by a reporter from the Associated Press said Smith “began to shake and writhe violently, in thrashing spasms and seizure-like movements” after the execution began. The shaking continued for at least two minutes.

The U.N. Human Rights Office and the European Union criticized the execution method, USA Today reports.

In a press conference Friday, Marshall said Alabama stands ready to help other states with nitrogen hypoxia executions, Reuters reports.

“Alabama has done it, and now so can you,” he said.

Oklahoma and Mississippi have approved nitrogen gas executions, according to Reuters.

Marshall also indicated that 43 other Alabama inmates have sought nitrogen gas executions.

Smith was executed for his role in the 1988 murder-for-hire killing of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, a pastor’s wife. The pastor, who later killed himself, allegedly sought the murder to collect on an insurance policy.

Smith was initially scheduled for execution in November 2022, but executioners were unable to insert an intravenous line before the death warrant expired.

The U.S. Supreme Court had twice declined to stop the execution, in decisions Jan. 24 and 25, the New York Times reports.

On Jan. 24, the Supreme Court refused to block the execution based on the argument that the second try constituted cruel and unusual punishment.

On Jan. 25, the high court refused to act based on an argument that Alabama wasn’t ready to try the untested execution method, subjecting him to an unconstitutional risk of cruel and unusual punishment. The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices dissented.

“Having failed to kill Smith on its first attempt, Alabama has selected him as its ‘guinea pig’ to test a method of execution never attempted before,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent.

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