Would it honestly have made a difference if they had conducted a trial?
He was clearly going to be killed anyway. The brutality in the events leading up to his death are fairly worrying though. He was sexually assaulted with a pipe before being shot, this is no way for anyone to die. If this continues to be the way that justice is served then nothing will change for the Libyan people. Different factions of the rebels have already started bickering over who contributed more to the downfall of the regime.