Without charge or trial, one man — demonstrating powers that would make a Greek tyrant sickened with envy — ordered the killing of another half-dozen civilians, announcing his decision in a missive delivered after the sentence had already been carried out. These were nameless foreigners on a boat, smote from the face of the Earth, as celebrated in a 33-second video shared by the judge, jury and executioner, while transiting along a route “associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks.”

Put plainly, these were men off the coast of Venezuela who were guilty, at a minimum, of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Since President Donald Trump returned to office, being accused of trafficking drugs is not just a capital offense, but an act of war. In an executive order issued the day he

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