Victims' Rights Group Questions Court-Ordered Starvation of Terri Schiavo, an Innocent Woman
3/18/2005 6:01:00 PM
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To: National Desk, Legal Reporter
Contact:
Contact: Michael Paranzino of Throw Away The Key, 202-253-4863 or media@throwawaythekey.org;
Web: http://www.throwawaythekey.org
WASHINGTON, March 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Throw Away The Key, a victim advocacy group that works on behalf of past and future victims of crime, issued the following statement tonight about the case of Terri Schiavo, whose death sentence was started today, with the removal of her feeding tube:
"America's courts can't have it both ways," said Michael Paranzino, president of Throw Away The Key. "When it comes to serial killers, cop killers, and other monsters, the courts bend over backwards to keep them alive. Even twenty years later, most convicted killers are still enjoying three square meals a day. But the courts have not hesitated to order Ms. Schiavo killed, based solely on a self-serving and unconfirmed claim about something she once allegedly said while watching TV. Her only crime is being inconvenient.
"Either Terri Schiavo deserves the same, decades-long court delays that killers routinely get, or it's time to begin enforcing the death penalty with the same passion that the courts are exhibiting in their thirst to kill an innocent woman," Paranzino added.
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Throw Away The Key is on the web at http://www.throwawaythekey.org, and its new judicial reform project is on the web at http://www.judgesgonewild.com .
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I have been praying to St Jude, The Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus, our Heavenly Father, and St. Joseph (his saint's day is tomorrow) ever since I heard that the feeding tube was removed today. I have asked for a miracle that somehow Teri would be able to communicate her desire to live in some way to those around her. I will keep on praying and ask all of you to join me in asking for this miracle to save this beautiful lady. I have faith that she is trying to tell people of her desire to live.