Can America kill an American citizen who is outside the country without ...

[vaskidmark]

some sort of actual trial?

http://www.neptunuslex.com/2010/10/01/extrajudicial/

Where are they today, these constitutional purists, as our Commander-in-Chief avidly pursues the extrajudicial execution of an American citizen living overseas and denies judicial review?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0929/Can-the-US-assassinate-an-American-citizen-living-in-Yemen/%28page%29/2

I agree with Lex that the guy is a turd and has no redeeming social value.  But is he at the moment an imminent threat to the USA?

And it is assasination, which I thought at one time our government had decided it would not engage in.  I was not sure I agreed with that decision, and am still not sure I am either opposed to it or just wondering if this is not the administration I want deciding whom to off and whom not to.

So?  What says APS?

stay safe.

[taurusowner]

I trust BHO as a Constitutional scholar and defender about as much as I would trust Stalin in the same role.

[De Selby]

can and will - two different things

[AZRedhawk44]

I'm of the opinion that the US Government has no right/authority to execute or assassinate any US Citizen, abroad or domestically, without a proper trial.  Unless he's bearing arms on the battlefield against the US.  At which point, it's not an execution or assassination.

However, if a citizen renounces his citizenship to our country, that's another deal entirely.