You are right though in one aspect
Executed specifically means to carry out a death sentence imposed by a legal authority as punishment for a crime and the most recent guy hadn't done anything illegal at all. Execution occurs within a legal system where the person has typically been convicted of a crime, and there was no judge or jury, no legal process, he was just gunned down in the street.
Which of course makes it even worse than if he had been executed. Thank you for making the point that calling it execution is watering down what actually happened.
The term "executed" carries the connotation of official, sanctioned killing following due process, which distinguishes it from murder, so therefore it was murder.
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