To all you apples and oranges people.
If the guy was in his jail cell, awaiting trial and they sent in a robot and blew him up, you would have to agree that would be murder, correct?
Would he have deserved it? Sure. Did he have it coming? Yep. Would we cry any tears? No. BUT it isn’t LEGAL. The scumbag has rights. We have laws. They have to be applied evenly for EVERYONE!
Circumstances matter. Once the police had him contained, there was no need to just execute him. In fact it could be considered murder.
Had he charged them, had he tried to escape, lethal force would be justified, but he didn’t. It was over.
If a sniper had him in their sites and he was just sitting there, contained by authorities, would the sniper be justified in executing him? (Lon Horiuchi ?) I think not. He didn’t have hostages, the threat was contained.
Circumstances had changed. The situation had changed. The attack was over. The police should have waited as long as it took for the situation to resolve itself.
REVENGE is not LEGAL.
he claimed to have bombs...how they could be set of was unknown he might have had the triggering device, he sealed his own fate..