What's so humane about starvation and dehydration?

Look, folks. Terry Schiavo is being starved to death and dehydrated to death. The ACLU is saying this is good.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20050322/ap_on_re_us/brain_damaged_woman

"Howard Simon, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) of Florida, praised the ruling. 'What this judge did is protect the freedom of people to make their own end-of-life decisions without the intrusion of politicians,' Simon said." (Yahoo News)

If I am not mistaken (and I'm not) the ACLU opposes the death penalty because it is too cruel. That means that the following forms of death, all methods of applying the death penalty throughout history in North America, are too cruel:

1. Lethal Injection
2. Firing Squad
3. Gas Chamber
4. Electric Chair
5. Hanging
6. Guillotine (Louisiana used one, but to my knowledge back when Louisiana was "France")

All of these methods of death are considered too cruel. What's the longest anyone ever took to die by these methods? I don't know, but I'd say the average was under 1 or 2 minutes. Terri Schiavo, who has committed no crime, has been sentenced to death by her husband. Her form of execution is starvation, which experts think will take one to two weeks.

Oh, by the way ACLU--weren't you also saying that torture of enemy soldiers is bad. Why not stand up for people right here at home being tortured?