> executed

He was shot after opening fire, unprovoked, on federal agents performing a search of his home under a lawfully obtained warrant.

Willingly and with aforethought engineering a situation that is practically guaranteed provoke an asleep person with ~no notice in the early morning to "unprovoked" defend themselves and wife against unknown people breaking into their home in order to lawfully "defend" one's self is execution in my book.

I can understand if there's some imminent threat but there was none. He was going to wake up, and report to a secure airport full of cops and federal agents. But they couldn't resist engineering a situation that ended up with him dead, doing what anyone would do to protect their wife when given ~zero time to distinguish threats entering their home at night.

Now you can argue maybe it wasn't an execution, and only their acts were indistinguishable from what those doing an execution would do.