[ClintonBeGone]

a judge or a state governor were to order the execution of a serial killer on death row by means of withholding food and water, a variety of courts would intervene at once to block that order, which would amount to constitutionally-prohibited cruel and unusual punishment.

Great point. Or, perhaps, the same might be true were her skin of a different hue.

[stands2reason]

Someone on another thread said (paraphrase):

"Imagine a patient dying of AIDS, the "life partner" wanting to keep him alive, and the parents wanting him dead. How do you think all these liberal groups would have responded?"