carved angel

MSNBC - Schindlers' Legislative Hope Fades:

The Schindlers will now petition the U.S. District Court in Tampa for a review of the state court rulings to ensure Terri Schiavo's federal due process rights have not been violated, Gibbs said.
The request will be almost identical to what death row inmates file after exhausting all state court appeals, he said.
``We believe we have a civil court death penalty here,'' Gibbs said.

the real difference here being, of course, that if this were a victim of the death penalty, people (members of the bush family, etc. especially) would not be scrambling to stop the killing.