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The former Harvard student and Chicago law professor routinely approved what amounted to execution lists provided by John Brennan, his personal counter-terrorism adviser.Mr Brennan, a former CIA analyst, is now back at the agency as its director.

He said: "It amounted to an execution, a field execution.

The prosecution case is that it amounted to an execution, a field execution," he said.

They said that killing him amounted to summary execution without the due process of law guaranteed by the Constitution.

The prosecution alleged the incident amounted to an "execution" of a man who was hors de combat – out of the fight – and should have been treated with respect and dignity.

Long before Friday's drone strike, officials say, lawyers at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Justice Department and the White House painstakingly considered the legal justification for what amounted to the execution of an American citizen without trial.

It amounted to an execution".

During the court martial, prosecutor David Perry told the court the murder was "not a killing in the heat and exercise of any armed conflict... it amounted to an execution".

Police discovered 13 empty cartridges at the scene and determined that at least two guns were used in what amounted to an execution.

The Swedish foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, has effectively been declared persona no grata in Israel after calling for an investigation into whether recent shootings of Palestinians by Israeli security forces amounted to extrajudicial executions.

Critics argue the drone strikes amount to execution without trial and cause many civilian casualties.