Reply #245: If there was a trial...

[rayofreason]

...then execution would be unwarranted. There was no trial, but if he had not died, there would be one.

You seem to want to second guess the air marshal. If I am on a plane and some one claims to have a bomb, I say take that person out now and ask questions later. It seems that this individual was mental, but the air marshals did not know that. Protecting passengers from potential threats is what air marshals are there for. They did the right thing.

Now (later, safe) it will be time to ask questions, second guess, carp and bitch, and do everything else that people making split-second life or death decisions don't do.