1.   French revolutionaries considered death by guillotine to be a more humane method of execution.

2.   Nonetheless, the federal government, through the Department of Agriculture, is promoting humane methods like harassment by dogs to keep down suburban goose populations.

3.   Delegation officials said the problems included tribal crew training and plans to combine traditional whaling practices with modern humane hunting methods.

4.   It mandates fines for animal abuse, requires registration of all pets and demands that only humane methods may be used to kill unwanted strays and sick animals.

5.   Only humane methods may be used to kill sick animals or those that must be destroyed by law.

6.   Some scientists said they were unsure whether the new weapons were the most humane methods of whaling.

7.   The state Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the use of lethal injection is constitutional because it is the most humane method of execution.

8.   IWC President Luis Fleisher said that while the world ban on whaling continued, the IWC was studying more humane methods of killing the marine mammals.