Drone strikes on designated terrorists 101:
1) Every mission executed by a long-range/long-duration UAV with a Hellfire missile is - in fact - a “kill mission.” By the nature of the attack, no capture is ever planned for or even possible.
2) Re-attacks of partially-destroyed targets is the rule, not the exception. The physical status of possible survivors is not part of the consideration with stand-off weapons.
This has been the norm under both Republican and Democrat administrations since the first Hellfire was mounted on a Predator years ago. Anyone who tells you otherwise, is lying or ignorant.
The method is ugly, no doubt about it, but there’s nothing new here except politics.