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contract killing

A homicide arranged by one or more persons or parties through an agreement (“contract”) with another person or party, to kill one or more target individuals in exchange for money or other consideration.
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He missed every possible tip-off, but luckily for him an undercover cop posing as a hit man caught Dalia's whole plan on tape.
Investigation Discovery Fires Up Season Two of its "Hit" Series NOTHING PERSONAL: MURDER FOR HIRE
After being hired by MAIN in 1971, Perkins was assigned a mentor who explained that "her assignment was to mold me into an economic hit man.
The economics of empire: two books examine how U.S. foreign policy and international money manipulators are placing the United States and myriad other countries on the road to financial disaster
In 2003, the president of a major publishing house that is owned by a powerful international corporation read a draft of what had now become Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
The Odyssey of a Conscience" could have been the subtitle of John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
Coming clean about U.S. corporatocracy
Detectives leading the hunt for the hit man say he is not from the area and was brought in to attack the Weavers.
Face of hitman; Police issue hit man picture
But if that didn't work, the hit man could "run Antonio Ferri over with an automobile," Mrs.
Police: Nursing Student Fails to Kill Husband With Dirty Needles, Hires "Hit-Man"
As the hit man runs through the grim checklist, she sounds bored and a little impatient.
THE ULTIMATE REVENGE; Women who have their love rivals raped and tortured; It sounds like a storyline from a bad soap opera, but a growing number of British women are hiring professional hit men to `solve' their relationship problems in the most sinister and sadistic ways..
As part of the settlement negotiated with the murder victims' relatives, Paladin Enterprises and Lund have agreed to contribute money to two charities chosen by the plaintiffs and to turn over to them the remaining 700 copies of Hit Man.
Hit Man case settles
Rubinek worked with Cleveland to raise the study of the hit man genre to a more profound level.
Saul Rubinek directs Jerry & Tom
The novel chronicles her affairs in vignettes centered on the lustful goings-on in the beds of the hit man and the multimedia artist: we see both of them before, during and after the act and learn, for instance, that the hit man, Sicilian and from Brooklyn, lavishes on his love food he cooks, while the multimedia artist, an assimilated Jew enamored of things German, makes her pay for half of the Chinese food he orders.
A Disturbance in One Place
TRAINER Andrew Bell fears that the career of Dotland Hit Man is over due to the broken hock he sustained in the third round of the Derby at Wimbledon on Saturday.
Injury ends career of Bell's Hit Man
The ex-Gretna hit man is starting to make a name for himself as a goalscorer.
Football: Star shows he has a bright future ahead; AROUND THE GROUNDS PAUL DIXON'S NON-LEAGUE COLUMN

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