Not splattered.
Given kill shot in the head,
after he had survived the crash.
Carter was a useful idiot,
because he had embraced the social "gospel" in his liberal Baptist view.
The Deep State needed somebody who was more of a "preacher" type they could control with promises of passing social programs.
He was happy as long as he got those,
self-blinded to the other treasonous actions of the Deep State.
He is exactly the type of person who buries the talent,
a lukewarm coward,
who didn't fight for the people he was supposed to be protecting.
To him,
his precious social programs was that which protected people.