Death Sentence from Judge Greer

My mom just told me she heard on the radio that another stay had been ordered for Terri, until March 18. This seemed like good news.

Until I went to Blogs for Terri and read the actual court order. It's clear that Judge Greer has actually issued a death sentence.

Bascially, he's annoyed that the order of February 2000 to starve Terri to death hasn't been carried out because of all the stays issued since then. He says the process isn't working.

What, because Terri isn't dead yet? I'd say that means the process is working.

He says he refuses to issue any more stays, and that what he's doing now is simply giving a date certain for Terri's starvation to begin, in order to allow time to arrange Terri's "last rites and other similar matters."

How considerate of him.

Unless the appellate courts issue a stay, he orders Michael Schiavo to begin Terri's starvation on March 18, 2005.

He's issued a death sentence.