> ...too flagrant to require a trial.

Of course I see your point, Joe. But once summary justice becomes the norm, it gets hard to draw the line.

Unlike Bin Laden, Mladic was found and peaceably arrested by his own government. By surrendering, he's earned his day in court.

It may or may not help him.

At Nuremburg, not all the convicted war criminals were sentenced to death (though the ones like Hess and Speer, who went to prison, weren't mass murderers, IIRC.)