Type of trial - Debate

[Matt Macoubrie]

I thought that it was valid for them to hunt down Booth, because I believe that one of the officers was the head of the NPD at the time, which would be somewhat like a CIA today. I look at this situation as the hunt for Osama bin Laden. We used military force to find, capture, and kill bin Laden.

I also do not think Corbett should have been charged, because though he was not instructed to, he did kill Booth, ending the situation. I honestly believe that the United States wanted to simply move on, and knowing that John Wilkes Booth was dead, made it easier to run through the other trials, convict, and kill Surratt, Herold, Powell, and Atzerodt. It makes sense that they did not take him to trial because he was slightly mentally impaired, considering that he escaped from a mental institution in 1888.