Interesting ....

Tonight's Law & Order SVU turned into a Terri Schiavo spin-off. I was very struck, however, when one of the lawyers was speaking about how the mom should be able to have a say. I'm sorry that I don't remember the specific line, but the lawyer was defending herself with something along the lines of "Is it the government's place to decide when someone dies?" My immediate thought was, Well, we already do. It's called Capital Punishment.