Persons who have been incapacitated by wounds, sickness, or shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.” This fundamental tenet stretches back to the 1863 “Lieber Code,” the first modern codification of the laws of war, promulgated by President Abraham Lincoln, which held that anyone who “intentionally inflicts additional wounds on an enemy already wholly disabled, or kills such an enemy, or who orders or encourages soldiers to do so, shall suffer death, if duly convicted.” MAGA