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.
A lot of the sparks on this thread are being thrown because of Political Correctness (the biggest pest of all). “Humane” traps are actually cruel and kill traps are the most humane. Real life Orwellian.
Only in the last 70 years have most Americans been detached from the distasteful necessities that their lifestyles require as technology allowed a separation between producers and consumers.
“Here Bitsy - take this here knife and send old Porky to heaven so our family may honor his bountiful sacrifice.” That used to be a lesson; not a horror story.