The suspected Islamic State mastermind of the Paris attacks was among those killed in a police raid north of the capital, France confirmed on Thursday, bringing an end to the hunt for Europe's most wanted man. Authorities said they had identified the mangled corpse of Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud from fingerprints in the aftermath of Wednesday's raid and gunbattle in which at least two people died including a female suicide bomber. – Reuters

Dominant Social Theme: Let's kill all these terrorists. It's not as if we want information from them.

Free-Market Analysis: One wonders why perpetrators of mass killings are rarely taken alive. Perhaps it is hard to do so, but let us recall pertinent circumstances regarding the Boston Marathon bombing.

Here is what conservative/libertarian commentator Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has to say regarding that bombing in an article entitled "FBI Evidence Proves Innocence of Accused Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev."