Most people would agree (in principle, not in observed behavior) that torture and murder are both wrong, as is torture before the few minutes before death.
Please try to read posts charitatively, it adds up to better conversations. We all have limited time.
The point was that most people see torture plus murder worse than a quick murder, and that should be clearly analogous to your ironic cite, that I read as pointing out the supposed hypocrisy of making a slauthering “ethical”. Different ways to kill, be it human or animal, even if we agree they are unethical, are not unethical in the same degree.