[WOSG]

An analogy:

The US Supreme Court just decided that we couldnt execute juvenile murderers, overriding the lawful state actions to sentence these young murderers to death.

What would you think of a Governor who took the law into his own hands and went to a prison and killed a known murderer who got off the death sentence?
Would you praise him as standing up for justice,
or condemn him as a vigilante who went outside the law and his powers?

[TigersEye]

What would you think of a Governor who took the law into his own hands and went to a prison and killed a known murderer who got off the death sentence? Would you praise him as standing up for justice,...

Stopping Terri's death would be defending and unalienable right of hers. What unalienable right or Constitutional prohibition would your bizarre scenario serve?

[Jim Noble]

What would you think of a Governor who took the law into his own hands and went to a prison and killed a known murderer who got off the death sentence?

It's a very good analogy.

I advocated, right here, that a governor of a State affected by the recent US Supreme Court decision should do precisely that-i.e., issue a writ of execution, have the convicted murderer executed, and then let the chips fall.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

[tarheelswamprat]

What would you think of a Governor who took the law into his own hands and went to a prison and killed a known murderer who got off the death sentence? Would you praise him as standing up for justice, or condemn him as a vigilante who went outside the law and his powers?

In logic:

"If A, then B" is not equivalent to "If B, then A".

Put more succinctly, Life and Death are not equivalent outcomes.

[Founding Father]

What would you think of a Governor who took the law into his own hands and went to a prison and killed a known murderer who got off the death sentence?

Let's change your hypo just a little and say the governor lets the appeals process play out and after all appeals are over signs an execution warrant and posts state troopers around the prison and tells the supremes to do something about it.

I would say the governor is doing exactly what he should do to preserve his state's rights under the constitution. Then it would come down to the president. Would he join with the supremes and trample states rights by sending in the troops (Washington and Lincoln did) OR, would he uphold the conswtitution and join with the governor and tell the supremes their judgement didn't comply with the constitution and would not be enforced, as Andrew Jackson did.

[Critter]

No, a better analogy would be that the supreme court ruled that you MUST execute juveniles convicted of 1st degree murder, and the governor commuted the juvenile's sentence to life without parole. Would you think the governor took the law into his own hands?

[SendShaqtoIraq]

wrong comparison. you are trying to equate TAKING a life with SAVING one.