Although people may balk at the idea of comparing the killing of animals in shelters to the execution of human prisoners, some legal activists believe this is just what we need to do. Indeed, our ...

Since I started researching and writing my book The Last Walk, about end-of-life care for animals, I have taken every opportunity to talk to people about their experiences and hear their stories about ...

When it comes to the law, words like “humanely” and “geriatric” are loadedso loaded that North Carolina’s proposed euthanasia rules have become snagged in semantics, languishing for more than a year.

Thanks to Lisa Sorg for her recent article on animal euthanasia and the gas chamber debate (“Animal euthanasia rules languish over language,” Aug. 13). I would like to respond to Pat Sanford’s quote ...