Terri Schiavo Receives Less Justice Than Condemned Murderer

I was asked to weigh in on the Schiavo case by an on-line publication called To The Source, which is sent to tens of thousands of pastors around the country. I focused on how Schiavo, like an executed prisoner, is going to die because the state, through the courts, have so decreed. Yet, when new evidence is found, a murderer receives greater access to justice and the benefit of every doubt, unlike this innocent, disabled woman.

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