[quote name='jmcc']The current editors hate him. I'm surprised they didn't run him through the mud a little more before executing him, though. He hadn't been shamed enough for not having a myspace page.[/quote]
I just thought I'd point this out. On Newsarama there's an interview with Ed Brubaker, the current author on Captain America. He clearly says this was in his plans as part of the ultimate revenge Red Skull would enact on Cap. He originally planned for it to happen later down the road, but he realized with the end of Civil War he'd either have to kill Cap off like this or deal with a storyline involving Cap's trial. He had just done the Daredevil arc involving Daredevil in jail and decided he didn't want to do another arc like that. So, Ed made the pitch that he kill Captain America off in CA25, and the editors were apprehensive, but they decided this was the best course. So Cap's death was almost entirely decided on by the author of his ongoing, not so much by the editors.