To those who wouldn't mind a public execution, please watch "Braveheart" [again] -- at least the end. Hopefully that will change your mind.
To the argument "But Wallace was a good guy, and Bin Laden is a bad guy!", let me say that that crowd also felt that they were doing a good deed by ridding U.K. of Wallace -- we, the outsiders, feel much differently.
I agree that Bin Laden did a horrible thing, but America (a civilized society) shouldn't stoop down to this barbaric level.