Another reporter trying to get a pulitzer prize I am afraid.
The military will look into it, and I will hazard a guess they will exonerate him from any wrong doing.
If he just shot a wounded man for the heck of it, he will be charged, as he should be. But it is much more likely that you have hit the nail on the head...in the heat of combat, he saw a terrorist who he thought was dead, start to move. The Marine thus thought the terrorist was playing dead like the terrorist who shot this same Marine in the face the day before. I have sat on military boards, and we give the benifit of the doubt in these cases to the soldier. It is easy for folks to sit in their living rooms and second guess what soldiers and Marines do in combat, but it is much different to be the one in the line of fire. You have to make a quick call, and he made it. Beneifit of the doubt goes to him until someone can prove different.
But that is different from claiming that we should just kill any wounded terrorist becasue they are getting what they deserve. They in fact are getting what they deserve in those cases, but it also brings us too far down towards their level.
From the video.
"These are the wounded that were never picked up".
Took care of that problem.
Do we really expect our troops to be treated any better?