You need to read the reports. His brain is entirely beyond recovery. His brain tissue has been replaced in equal measure with a combination of water and cerebrospinal fluid..The thalami, which fire the pathways within the white matter, which generate sensory perception, is effectively invisible in the scan.
In simple terms the majority of the white matter of the brain and a significant degree of the cortex have been wiped out by this remorseless degenerative condition.
No one denies that Alfie Evans is very ill. With or without treatment, he will die. With treatment, he will be more comfortable, and possibly live longer. How can you justify murder as a reaction to illness? Terminally ill people, and those with cognitive impairments are human beings, possessing all the rights other humans possess. Even you.
I remember a case where a teenager slumped into a coma and remained there for over ten years. The doctors were stumped. Then he woke up but was unable to let anyone know. He could hear the doctor talking. He heard his mother ask him, "Why don't you just die already!" A physical therapist noticed his fingers moving. Slowly he was able to communicate. Turns out he had suffered a brain infection that the doctors could not diagnose. Just to give him the benefit of the doubt they did put him in a nursing home where he slowly recovered. He is now in a wheelchair, but he married and is now a speaker for the disabled.
What the doctors are doing is as bad as sloppy police work where they jump to a conclusion about a homicide without finding enough proof to convict, but they sentence the person to death row anyways.
The hospital has found a judge who will assure a conviction.
Years ago, I remember seeing a Nova, or some such program, about a little boy in England, who had gotten an infection or something wrong with his brain when he was around 2 or 3, and on a ct scan, he only had brain tissue on the areas lining his cranium, with nothing but cerebrospinal fluid filling up the rest of the area where the brain tissue was supposed to be, and he was of normal intelligence. It was quite remarkable.