BEATEN TO DEATH???? EVEN BETTER!!!! Dress him up like a baby seal and break out the Special Forces Aluminum baseball bats, and batter up for some Allah ball! Only thing better would have been to chainsaw his head off!!!
No, no, no. You've got it all wrong. Keep him alive for the autopsy. Given his past activities, he would probably enjoy witnessing a little artful knife action. Also, the autopsy would unquestionably reveal the cause of death, because the autopsy would be the cause of death.
Chainsaw his head off?? Oh no, no, no. DULL KNIFE. A chainsaw is way too efficient.............
But you don't get any information of a dead man. You also make a martyr of him, rather than exposing him as the sniveling little bastard that he is.
Given that this is just a crock of, well, you know. The loss of intell is probably worse than the martyrdom. But exposing him as the coward that he is, that would have been truly sweet.