Somebody please explain what the difference is between this and the Civil War? Somebody takes up arms against the US shouldn’t expect full civil rights. I don’t recall death warrants being issued for individual confederate soldiers st Antietam.
OK, let's use the Civil War as an example. Let's imagine that General Lee was visiting a non-combatant country, like Italy. So Lincoln orders the death of Lee while he's in Italy... There's a word for that... Assassination. And the last time I checked, that act is specifically against the law.
Mark