Terri Schiavo and The Death Penalty (What's the Difference?.. For What It's Worth )

Terris Fight ^ | 3/23/59 | Dallas59

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These people who oppose the death penalty for convicted murderers raise not a word in defense of Terri Schiavo. A woman that continues to live with the aid of a feeding tube. She has been sententenced to death because she does not speak properly, is brain damaged and is dependent on others for her basic needs. Who is more worthy of life? The convicted man or woman on death row who murdered an innocent person or persons just because? Or the woman who sits starving to death by United States court order for her crime of being burdensome?

Terris Fight

[Dallas59]

Yes, another post on this woman.

[sierrahome]

"What'sthedifference?"

Terri has hours, murders have years and years and years...they also get food and water to the end.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Still hope for instant rescue? Debate on the "promised pardon" option. Developing....

[Military family member]

I am sorry, this analogy is false. Why not compare Terri's fate to hunting?

[Dallas59]

Who ordered her death?

[syriacus]

These people who oppose the death penalty for convicted murderers raise not a word in defense of Terri Schiavo

The difference is --The murderers have constitutional rights and they get a jury trial.

Doctor Cranford, who testified for Michael in Greer's court that Terri is PVS, has said that PVS patients have no Constitutional Rights.

I can't understand how this can be a "right-to-die" case
since Michael's leading medical spokesman
says Terri has no constitutional rights.

If Michael ("I'll honor my vows") Schiavo has legal standing in court to take the place of a woman who is a non-person under the constitution, then he should have legal standing to take her place in her bed in the hospice.

When Michael goes to DC to testify, maybe a congressman can ask Michael if he was abusing steroids around the time Terri collapsed.

[Military family member]

No one ordered her death, hence the false analogy.

[Dallas59]

So the state says that persons of her "demeanor
"have no rights" and therefore may be killed?

[Military family member]

Show me where that specifically is stated.