You can goosh all the roaches you want, fling lobsters into boiling water, harpoon, hook, and suffocate fish and frogs and no one even winces. Not to mention what goes on with pigs, cattle, chicken and turkeys every day.
This cruelty issue is hardly any sort of objective one.
If I forced a salt solution into the lungs of a dog and was caught at it you might have to go to Atlanta to visit me.
If the dog was a foetal puppy, and you were a vet, then you would have a valid comparison here. And the State of Georgia would not do a thing, because that foetal puppy is not yet an animal.
Surely Georgia has prisons in other places than Atlanta.