You can’t even agree that cooling the snake is more humane, can you?
OTOH,
You obviously want to tow the line with your PETA connection, so go ahead and advocate whatever they do. If the animal skin dealer doesn’t have a freezer or refrigerator big enough to put a snake in a bag for twenty minutes first, then I guess they should dump it on the floor, chop it’s head off with an axe and pith the brain or squash it with the axe handle. Whatever PETA says, right?