Targeted Killings Process

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Steven Bravo

(Extrajudicial) Targeted Killings & Due Process

INTRODUCTION

It has been over a decade now that the United States have practiced identifying and killing certain individuals by missile attacks deployed from unmanned military aircraft, or drones. All of these individuals have either been identified as members of al Qaeda, the Taliban or those associated.
These killings have a name, they are called extrajudicial targeted killing. Extrajudicial targeted killing is a premeditated killing of a specifically identified individual not in custody by a government without the sanction of a judicial proceedings or legal process.
The Unites States Government conducts extrajudicial targeted killings on a semi-public method. More recently, the use of extrajudicial targeted killings have expanded, in large part because of combat …show more content…
However, in the realm of targeted killing, federal courts have not played the authoritative role, which does not seem like it will change either. Instead, the executive branch is determining the requirements of due process that it-self has to comply with. Therefore, it is absolutely critical that the executive branch assess its own checks in its practice of targeted killing. The reason is so that not only is the legality of this practice being upheld, but the concerns over legitimacy, fairness and accuracy are also being addressed. Thus, it is quite evident that our Constitution’s due process does require procedural protections in targeted killings of individuals, regardless of citizenship. These protections should require that these individuals be granted notice and an opportunity to be heard in front of an unbiased decision maker. Before this paper articulates what the due process protections entail, the reader will be briefly informed of the current process of the United States Government’s targeted killing

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