This is absurd. The law needs to be loosened to allow this sort of immediate, entirely justified retaliation. Setting a person on fire is among the very cruelest ways to kill another human being. How much due process do we need before we select that sort of murderer out? American or Afghan.
A civilian contractor pleaded guilty yesterday to voluntary manslaughter in the killing in Afghanistan of a man who set the contractor’s co-worker on fire, prosecutors said.
Don M. Ayala had been charged in federal court in Alexandria with second-degree murder in the Nov. 4 incident. According to the U.S. attorney’s office, it took place in the village of Chehel Gazi, where Ayala and co-worker Paula Loyd were on a walking patrol with an Army platoon.
According to the prosecutor’s office, Abdul Salam, an Afghan, doused Loyd with gasoline and ignited it. He fled, but Ayala and several U.S. soldiers tackled and restrained him, prosecutors said.
Minutes later, after Ayala was told of Loyd’s condition and while Salam was still restrained, Ayala shot him in the head, according to the prosecutors’ statement. Salam was killed instantly, the prosecutors said.
Loyd, 36, who was burned over 60 percent of her body, was taken to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. She died of her wounds there Jan. 7, the prosecutors said
via Afghanistan Contractor Pleads Guilty to Killing Man Who Burned Co-Worker – washingtonpost.com.
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