drone strike blew up the cabin.
with some lunatics its more cost efficient to kill than to arrest and have a trial.
Dorner would have been killed in prison anyway, might as well save money and kill him now.
Aka let's skip due process. I totally see no possible repercussions. The only people who have anything to fear are the guilty, amiright? That excuse has never been used to justify extrajudicial killings before.
Don't get me wrong, I get that the law regarding life and death sentences in Cali specifically is slow as molasses and costs an exhorbitant ammount. And this sick bastard would've gotten life probably, so tack on a lifetime in high security prison, quite a bundle. But you can't just circumvent the entire idea of having laws because it's occasionaly pragmatic, or you might as well not have any laws at all. Due process is kind of a big deal, start fucking with it and it opens up a whole world of potential shit.