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>> Secondly, approximately 70% of the American population CHOSE to execute Terri.

* Karen Ann Quinlan was NOT brain dead either! Just about everyone thought she was (including Judge Greer) and you can blame the press for that one, too. She lived for nearly a decade after being taken off life support and died a natural death of pneumonia. When it was suggested that her feeding tube be removed, her father angrily refused, saying that it was her nutrition.

Misinformation about Quinlan caused a serious legal error by Judge Greer, who refused to correct it. He disallowed a pro-life comment by Terri on the false assumption that she was too young to speak intelligently about Quinlan. That was par for him. If either the truth or the law favored her not being put to death, he ignored it.

No, no, those were rigged polls. They'd say she was brain dead and on life support, then ask: would you "pull the plug?" And most people would innocently say yes, thinking this was another Karen Ann Quinlan case*. Once the poll question was phrased accurately for her condition, and opinion was OVERWHELMINGLY against killing her. Around 85%. I don't have the poll at hand, but we could surely find it.

Yeah, I know. I guess that I should have rephrased that. The problem is that the American public made the decision to treat the establishment media reports as Gospel. Seventy percent of the American people chose to accept the word of the establishment media without question. The public did not want to hear the other side of the issue, they only wanted to listen to the media in a matter of life or death. They should have known better, but they didn't or didn't want to know better.