NOBODY thought, looking at the facts of the case, that Terri would be executed. It was a no brainer that this girl should live, so easy was it to see the logic of that argument that NOBODY took the case seriouly. NOBODY thought Greer was such a ass. Ergo poorly prepared appeals, poorly executed plans to save Terri, then horrors or horrors Greer pulled the tube and it was too late to get the save Teri act together, Jeb brings W in, W does what he can without risk, but ...... Time for jpsb's plan.
Well you have some points, degrading a bit until the end you have your "plan," but it was not so much that nobody thought, as it was that nobody thought through the legal end game in time. What was needed was a substantive statute, a federal one, since the Florida Supreme Court had done its thing with the Florida constitution, and was prepared to do itagain (thus no new state statute at the end, because legislators thought it would be bounced before the ink was dry). States should not have constitutions. I have posted that several times. They are a vehicle for abuse of state judicial power.