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If there are still laws, if judges still look at laws, these were murders.
Yep they go from mere murders to more war crimes.
But good luck getting that prosecuted.
That's easy - just kidnap Trump and charge him in Trinidad.
Legal scholars have said the strikes, launched against civilians in boats far from the US, are violations of domestic and international law. The Trump administration maintains they are legal, under a secret opinion written by the justice department that argues the US is in an armed conflict with cartels and that the laws of war apply to the strikes.
War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.
Obviously, Wikipedia isn't the absolute authority on defining what "war" means, but it does a great job at checking your common sense. Like, a war isn't always between established states, but it's also distinct from enforcing laws in places where they don't enforce their own laws or where their own laws don't suit you.
Even if you assume that everything the Trump administration has said about these people is true, these boats were not carrying out anything like a military operation. Drug running isn't a military operation. They're not supplying front lines with drugs for battle.
These people were accused civil offenses, not military operations, and we in the US do not give the death penalty for running drugs.
And of course, the Trump administration lies as naturally as it breathes, so I have no reason to think the men from this article were running drugs in the first place. This is all just showing that even the lies Trump has told are not sufficient to justify the military actions he's ordered.