Drone strikes killed US citizens without due process or trial

Evidence

Obama also personally ordered the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, two US citizens who produced speeches and web materials in support of al-Qaeda. We will never know whether they were guilty of committing terrorist acts because they were killed by drones, an act that many civil libertarians saw as a violation of constitutional guarantees of due process and trial by jury. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 421

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: speech-as-grounds-for-execution — al-Awlaki’s case collapses the distinction between producing political speech and committing terrorism, the ultimate chilling effect.
• XREF: connects to: Barack Obama authorized killing US citizens abroad via drone without trial — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 508; US drone strikes executed a US citizen and his sixteen-year-old son without trial — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 508