The Boston Bombers struck four years ago. The younger Tsarnaev brother was taken alive. The lawyers spent two years, billing hours to the taxpayer, before convicting him in federal court. At least the judge had the stones to give him the death penalty. Another two years has gone by, and Tsarnaev has yet to be executed. I doubt that he ever will be.
We need to make sure our laws define acts of terrorism in which people get killed, as a capital crime eligible for the death penalty. We need to work hard on taking the terrorist[s] alive. Don't allow them to commit suicide by cop. We need to get them on trial within half a year, and we need a verdict and a sentence within another half a year. And we need to execute the death penalty promptly, within three months of sentencing.
Let's hope the Brits catch a terrorist or two alive after the Manchester atrocity.