Dear Silverleaf - you would have to believe a sovereign has the right to kill anyone who disagrees with him/her. I do not believe any one man/woman has that right. At the very least Khashoggi(sp?} deserved a trial, and though I think it would have been abhorrent to smuggle him from the Embassy to Saudi Arabia, to face trial there, and most likely eventual death anyway, it would have been more acceptable, and carried out in a more humane fashion. Evidently Khashoggi put undeserved faith in his homeland, and paid the ultimate price.