USA - Obama favours execution of bin Laden

Obama favours execution of bin Laden. Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama has said the elusive al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden should be executed if captured alive. "If he was captured alive, then we would make a decision to bring the full weight of not only US justice, but world on justice down on him," 47-year-old Obama said in an interview to CNN. He said the actions of bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks in the US, would justify his execution. "I am not a cheerleader for the death penalty. I think it has to be reserved for only the most heinous crimes," Obama said. "But I certainly think plotting and engineering the death of 3,000 Americans justifies such an approach" he said.