Terri Schiavo – murdered by the American System?

Terri has died in a way quite bizarre to me as a UK observer. How can it be that both the governor of the state and the president can express a desire for a different outcome and yet this woman was starved to death. How can the US parliment and courts disagree so publically? Why did the supreme court not get involved? How can a woman be starved to death without due process or evaluation by independent doctors being properly considered. At times, despite my education courtesy of TV’s The West Wing, I remain incredulous at the complicated structures in place in the USA.

I have to ask, is there something wrong with a system that seems to allow one judge to condemn this woman to death? Can anyone explain to me how it is possible that the government could do nothing about this?