First off, Terri Schiavo hasn't even been tried, much less convicted, for any crime. Nor does she have any independent representation as would be constitutionally required in such a case.
Secondly, death penalty cases can be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court; yet there was no federal appeal available at all for Terri Schiavo before passage of this law. Thus death row inmates had additional layers of protection against error that this innocent woman did not.
The answer to the liberals' protests is that the accused was given the right of counsel, the right to state his case, the right of a jury trial, and the right of appeal, all designed to ensure that no sentence is carried out injustly. Terri Schiavo has had none of those rights, not one. To extend federal appellate review alone is in my opinion an improvement but still inadequate; no one should be put to death by law except by decision of a jury of one's peers.
Bump!