It is entirely, based on what we see, that a normal trial isn't going to take place. The DEO isn't a normal agency and they aren't about to let their prisoners stand trial And risk exposing the existence of the DEO.
I never said a "normal" trial was going to take place. I said either there would be a permissible-under-law tribunal
or some other equitable solution / ethical treatment which wouldn't cast the characters as amoral psychopaths.
You're pretending that there is zero accountability or procedure for meting out justice in classified settings. If your crime is spreading State secrets, it's easy to show cause for a sequestered hearing so that you don't get to use the public trial as a weapon to spread more classified material. There are legal and just ways for administering justice outside of the four corners of what you're familiar with.
What's absurd is to assume otherwise good characters are going to become monsters off-screen
based on something unseen, rather than give the benefit of the doubt that the unseen thing
might be consistent with their character.
There's any number of ways Leslie might still get a "normal" trial. They can't hold her in a normal jail to await bail, but they can figure out how to dampen or control her powers. If they figure that out, there's absolutely no reason she can't attend a normal trial. She was out when brought to the DEO, so doesn't know it exists, and the power dampener need not be shared with the public if it is invisible (like medication or some sort of field underneath defendant's seat; recall how they were planning on catching her in the first place).
Leaping to the conclusion they intend to keep her comatose indefinitely is unsupported.
All that said, I don't even understand the obsession with due process inside the superhero genre where the heroes are literally vigilantes. Every time X-Ray Vision or Super Hearing is used without a warrant, it's a violation if we're going to be so formal. The genre itself means we accept justice transcends written law, especially when the powers and abilities exhibited are transcending nature and physics and reality upon which those written laws were based.
Justice might mean a better outcome for all instead of blindly adhering to procedure. For all we know, Leslie gets depowered, gets counseling, and the next time we see her she's a meta in the DEO's pocket. That's arguably a far more just outcome than ensuring she gets a trial only to waste away in prison or escape to kill again, even if it defies procedure.
There's no reason to believe Kara and Alex would be OK with inhuman and unethical treatment, so far more plausibly, the DEO has ethical ways of dealing with metas.
