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contract killing

NOUN
  1. a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer

How To Use contract killing In A Sentence

  • A British woman who tried to arrange the contract killing of her husband was jailed for five years on Wednesday.
  • The murder of a father-of-two, who was shot dead outside his Virginia Water home, could have been the victim of a contract killing, according to police.
  • Police have not ruled out robbery as a motive for the murder, but suspect it could have been a revenge murder or a contract killing disguised as a robbery.
  • There had been speculation that the couple, or a relative, had been on a witness protection scheme and that the shooting was a contract killing.
  • It was to have been a straight-forward contract killing arranged by an adulterous couple to rid them of the man's wife.
  • A study of contract killings in Australia has found most are not ordered by criminals, but by angry spouses and jilted political lovers.
  • He had been offered $50,000 to carry out the hit, and was jailed for life for the contract killing.
  • Due to the style of the shooting, police initial suspicions pointed to a contract killing with the killers meeting the dead man at the location where the body was discovered.
  • He had been offered $50,000 to carry out the hit, and was jailed for life for the contract killing.
  • As a rule such conflicts take the form of ‘contract killings’ of certain businessmen not involving the murder of innocent bystanders.
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