Recommend title change: "Student slated to attend Western Michigan University beheaded in Saudi Arabia"

While "student-to-be executed" is grammatically unambiguous in writing, it's entirely ambiguous when spoken, which could easily confuse people with only a working knowledge of English.

Also, it's the title of the actual article and it meets HN guidelines.

Worth a read to see how this is one of the most misleading headlines of all time.

He's not a student if he's never set foot in the school. In fact, he wasn't even an American citizen. He just got accepted to the school.