[AmishDude]

if we can do these things to unconvicted detainees, then why can't we do them to convicted felons?

By international law, the detainees are spies -- or worse. Summary execution is the most humane possible outcome. Felons are a domestic matter.

[Gondring]

By international law, the detainees are spies -- or worse.

Huh?!? Sez who? We have admitted that many of the detainees were innocents picked up in dragnets, or turned in by unscrupulous informants (rival clans, etc.)!