“It’s just completely wrong to deprive this poor woman of food and water,” Gibson said on Sean Hannity’s national radio show yesterday. “It’s a prolonged and cruel execution.” Gibson continued:

I’m appalled and stunned that we’ve gotten to this.... I just sit here watching this whole scenario play out in front of me with my mouth hanging wide open, that our country has come to this. I think it’s really a dark, black day. And I think that this final appeal — it’s too little too late. It’s an attempt [by] the powers that be to sort of really just cover [themselves] ... later on so they can say we tried, but in fact, they’re not trying real hard....

What happened to just being a human being, you know? It’s nothing more than state-sanctioned murder. All the big guys, they all have their hands tied up by some tinhorn judge down there. Come on, when they want to whip a judge, they got no problem doing that. Look what they did to [Ten Commandments proponent Roy Moore] in a heartbeat. So they can do it if they want. They just don’t want to.

It hasn’t had a fair going-over yet, so to just go right to this crucifixion of this woman... even a dog has more rights. You do this to an animal, they’ll lock you up, but this is a human being we’re doing this to.... It’s just a terrible tragedy to watch state-sanctioned murder.