By Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Wednesday asked the Justice Department to hand over all legal opinions its attorneys have produced to assess the legality of the military’s 13 deadly strikes against suspected drug vessels that have killed about 57 people.

“Summarily killing criminal suspects is prohibited under domestic and international law in both peacetime and wartime,” they wrote in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi that was seen by Reuters.

“These recent strikes raise numerous questions about whether the department provided adequate legal guidance to those involved in ordering, planning, and carrying out the killings.”

The letter was led by Vermont Democratic Senator Peter Welch and signed by all of the committee’s Democrati

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