I thought that too.
Traditionally, combatants in a war who are captured out of uniform, are subject to the electric chair.
A strictly held time limit to execute the sentence doesn’t need to be held to, particularly if the saboteurs are providing information on their confederates.
But the precedent is there, I can’t see what the problem is.
It’s all a game of sensitivities and perceptions. The U.S. government tip toes around our enemies so as not to “upset” our so-called muslim “allies” on the war on terror, by not executing muslims other than in an actual war zone. A hideous joke. They are either the enemy or not, and they are. And yet the government continues to let them emigrate here by the thousands every year. Delayed suicide. And to think I worry about the future of my children and grand children. We live in upside down times. I don’t recall that the U.S. government let Germans, or Japanese or Communists into this country when we were at war with them, and their cultures and “religion (i.e., ideology)” swore to destroy us. Insanity on the part of government officials who are elitist, ulti-millionaires living in their ivory castles and not understanding the plight of the average American. Madness.