As the title says. I have had this happen to me on few occasions. After death and subsequent reloading of a checkpoint (which there are far too few I might add, this is PC, I need my one-button-quicksave) my melee/stealth kill stops working. Pressing the melee key doesn't do anything nor do I get "press Mouse5 for a stealth kill" when I'm behind enemies. The only way to remedy this is to die again and hope it works on the next checkpoint reload or restart the game.
Melee is mapped to Mouse5 on my Logitech MX518 if that makes any difference. Anyone else having this issue?