I hope the guy gets a BIG fine. There is no excuse for allowing a animal to die slowly in a live trap. It is needlessly cruel and I hope he gets stuck with a big enough fine that he learns his lesson.
I understand that animals sometimes have to be removed and/or killed. There is no reason to make it a slow and painful death, however.
We’re talking about vermin here. The trapper’s only mistake was using a humane trap. She should have set a kill trap.
I agree with you completely that we should not torture anything to death.
Animals are animals, and they’re not doing what they do to annoy you but to live their lives as instinct directs them. Being pleased that their seeming mischief is out of your life for good is all right. Taking pleasure in their painful death is not.