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To: shhrubbery!
If federal court review is granted to death row criminals under the 14th Amendment, why shouldn't federal court review be granted in disputed cases where the state has imposed a death sentence on an innocent?

Because the 14th Amendment was stretched for that power in and of itself. Now you're going to argue why not stretch it a little more? That's conservative....

This was a civil case, not a criminal one. The 10th Amendment is clear. I realize Republicans inherently hate that Amendment considering their auspicious party origin but are we now to take intrastate medical civil cases all the way to the Supreme Court because we disagree with the outcome?

195 posted on 06/21/2005 7:55:32 AM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: billbears
are we now to take intrastate medical civil cases all the way to the Supreme Court because we disagree with the outcome ?

Yes, I think it's fully appropriate if the state is imposing DEATH. As it did in the case of Terri Schindler.

283 posted on 06/21/2005 11:15:32 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (The 'right to choose' = The right to choose death --for somebody else.)
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