Because in a civilized state this cannot happen (in my opinion)...you can imprison them, you can sentence them to life imprisonment, you can send them to a labor camp, etc...but you can't execute them. The communist regimes in many European countries fell at that time, but nowhere was the dictator executed (Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc.) This is similar to medieval social "norms". Furthermore...his confidants betrayed him, and his confidants played into the hands of the soldiers...and not only was it normal, but there was no legal discussion at all, as soon as they entered the room, one of the soldiers opened fire on them :( This (in my opinion) is unacceptable!