David Aubrey QC, defending, insisted the murder should be considered a mercy killing as she had seen his rapid deterioration over the previous 10 months.
It might be considered a caffeine buzz kill given the audience and the hour.
On the back my father wrote: "Chris, have you considered a career in killing baby seals?
Norway's most notorious prisoner was sentenced in August 2012 to a maximum 21-year sentence – which can be extended if he is still considered a danger – for killing eight people in a bomb attack outside a government building in Oslo, then shooting dead another 69, most of them teenagers, on the island of Utøya on 22 July 2011.
"It was a 'commando' operation, and if you refused to execute the orders, then you too were considered a kuluna and killed," he said.
He had been part of a communist youth league at home, and he feels certain that if he had returned to Ethiopia he would have been considered a traitor and killed.
Two other Americans identified as Al Qaeda supporters were inadvertently slain in drone strikes, and Awlaki's teenage son, who was not considered a militant, was killed in a strike weeks after his father's death.
In 2007, the office's dour budget analysis was considered a major factor in killing a proposal, backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, to provide universal health coverage for all Californians.
Sgt. Andrew McInnis, a police spokesman, said that it did not appear that Officer Willis's weapon was used in the crime and that she was not considered a suspect in the killing.
The Predator had been considered a blunt and unsophisticated killing tool, and many at the C.I.A. were glad that the agency had gotten out of the assassination business long ago.
