And since when has it been contrary to UK law to kill someone resisting or evading arrest for serious crimes when arrest is impracticable?
not being a scholar of the law, I am unable to answer that, but my comment of
but I thought that was the whole point of everything we had done over there.
I thought we were there to show the triumph of law over anarchy and democracy over tyrrany.
was written in response to your saying
Getting someone to swing from a rope these days, in the era of "Human Rights", seems to have become an inordinately time-and-money-consuming process. Look at the farcical "due process" being applied to Saddam! It must be costing the West millions.
It may have cost millions, but nobody really seems to care how much any of this costs. My point is we are either the same as, or different from the people we are fighting, and if we are not different from them I just don't see why we bother.