If he didn’t have a gun or any weapon was it legal to kill him? He must have been trapped being on the upper floor. Why not bring him in alive. In our law even the worst criminal isn’t shot down like a dog when they are unarmed and have no where to go. I wonder what it may have been that they were afraid he would reveal. We should have taken him in and interrogated the stuffing out of him to get any possible information that we could have gotten out of him. A trial would have been justice drawn out and savored providing that he ultimately was put to death like Saddam H and Nazi war criminals. Killing him instantly was much easier for him than going through a long drawn out trial before being put to death would have been.
It's a war. "Our law" doesn't apply.
The Geneva Convention is more applicable. And, under the Convention, terrorists (or "illegal combatants") may be shot on sight.
As OBL evidently was...
I agree. I have not heard anyone echo or even mention this point. What American law allows someone to kill another unarmed person? When police officers do this there is always an investigation and sometimes charges are brought against them. Shouldn’t they have tried to taser him or subdue him before they executed him?