What is taking this judge so long to decide? Decide on the side of life.
He's probably hoping to time things so that Terri is permanently and severely harmed by dehydration but not totally killed.
Even if he times it wrong, he wants to ensure that he dehydrates her enought that if she shows signs of conciousness when rehydrated he can claim it was the dehydration that did it, rather than merely being the fact that she was no longer stifled.
He has already decided but he is too much of a coward to put the gun to her head so he will let her starve to death. Let his name be blotted out.