America debates as Terri Schiavo grows ever weaker. The world commemorates Good Friday and Easter. Pope John Paul II winces in agony as he unsuccessfully tries to speak his blessing. The Colorado Supreme Court overturns plans to execute a murderer-rapist because jurors consulted a Bible during deliberations. The U.S. Supreme Court upholds an execution despite a violation of jury instruction rules regarding his religious conversion. The Supreme Court also rejected an appeal regarding an Idaho parental consent abortion law. The investigations continue into the shootings in Red Lake and Milwaukee. Jerry Falwell is "critically ill" and hospitalized with pneumonia. See a theme?
Schiavo receives Last Rites, Communion | Terri Schiavo was given last rites and Easter communion — a drop of wine, but no bread — as protesters hoping to get the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted pledged to take their fight to the gates of the White House (Associated Press)
Saturday: Schiavo in her 'last hours,' father says amid appeals (The New York Times)
Schiavo called beyond saving | Seeing their daughter 'declining rapidly,' the woman's parents are done with courtroom efforts to keep her alive, a spokesman says (Los Angeles Times)
Schiavo seen as past 'point of no return' | Easter Sunday did not bring a miracle for the family of Terri Schiavo, though the 41-year-old woman was allowed her first nourishment in nine days, when a priest gave her a drop of Communion wine (The Washington Times)
Terri Schiavo's unstudied life | The woman who is now a symbol and a cause hated the spotlight (The Washington Post)
Autopsy planned:
Schiavo's husband says autopsy will end suspicions | As Terri Schiavo was in her 11th day without food or water, her husband said that a full autopsy would be performed before her cremation (The New York Times)
To clear doubts, Schiavo autopsy planned | Procedure would offer proof of the woman's brain injuries and counter rumors about her husband's motives, his attorney says (Los Angeles Times)
Schiavo's husband and parents now battling over autopsy plan (The Washington Post)
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