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Terri Schiavo & Death Penalty

By Norm Davis

Now that Terri has been given the death penalty by the Florida courts as well as the court of the federalies supporting the state courts decision, I have a few questions for anyone that can answer them.

Since the courts and the medical testimony in them have decided that deprivation of food and water is humane and painless, then it seems to me that this lady has given us the answer to the long time problem of "cruel and unusual punishment."

Since the courts have ruled that the electric chair and hanging are cruel and inhumane, and the present methods via IV are now being challenged as such, we have a problem that Terri may have solved. It is apparently ok that we place those on death row, when their time comes, on the gurney and allow them to die of starvation and dehydration.

The testimony by the medical people did say that this was a peaceful method of death, did they not?

 Would this method of execution not then be permissible, at least in the state of Florida, since it was the Florida courts that ruled such and the federal courts agreed?

Has Terri solved the problem of a "humane" death?

How could the ACLU and other similar organizations possibly argue against what they argued for?

Is it not safe to assume that NOW, National Organization of Women, agree with this since they did not oppose what Terri's husband was doing to her?

Perhaps Terri was used by God to give us the answer we needed for this problem.

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