plane, you keep trying to turn my argument into something that it never was, that is about how to deal with people in combat.
as far as your reference to Lincoln, as far as I know, he never ordered U.S. citizens to be executed without trial even in time of war. If I'm wrong please show me where.
Since this topic deals with assassination by executive order and is not specifically related to battles or battlefield conditions, your comments about taking prisoners, and how many prisoners were taken by Bush and how many by Obama are not only unsupported by any facts I have ever seen, but totally irrelevant and thus I won't respond to them.
Although you keep trying to re-frame this issue into how America is supposed to treat those of its citizens who are engaged in active combat against its armed forces, that is not the issue. The commonly known case of an American executed in this manner without trial judge or jury was a passenger in a car on an empty road in the desert, not firing any weapon and not being himself under fire from others.