Due process Under the Law?

Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson said Monday that while Osama bin Laden needs to be caught and killed, the terrorist mastermind would get the due process of law.

      Isnt that an oxymoron? needs to be killed but would get due process first?? That makes due process a moot point if you have him executed as if he already had so called "due process." Sounds kinda like a "how do you plead", followed, before his answer by a bullet piercing his skull, as the government then answers for him, "guilty" ..........

I'm tired of words like "due process" being bandied about as if it really meant somethging.  The U.S justice system, like its president is becoming the laughing stock of the world