As you say, Murder is the word, State sponsored murder. Premeditated murder. AKA bioethicking. Soft and fuzzy words mask the brutality and the cruelty against an innocent, nobody would dream of visiting on a vicious animal or serial killer.
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It is flatly illegal in Pinellas County to kill any animal by depriving it of water or food.
I suppose Judge Greer rationalized his defiance of this law by declaring Terri Schiavo to be a "vegetable." The judge himself is solid "mineral" -- granite, I think -- from ear to ear.