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Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people. [1] It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise. Either party may be a person, group, or organization.
The practice of contract killing involves a person (the contract killer) who is paid to kill one or more individuals. [1] As implied by the name, the contract killer typically does such solely for the purpose of profit and often lacks any personal connection to their intended target.
Usually the victim is a woman who has violated sexual norms, such as refusing an arranged marriage or having relationships with unapproved, unrelated men. It is often a proxy murder, in which the order to kill is given out by the head of the family, usually the father, instructing a brother to kill his sister.
The most common form of consensual homicide is assisted suicide, most commonly as euthanasia, in which terminally ill people seek assistance from their physicians (or family members) to alleviate their suffering by ending their lives.
Thus seemingly thwarted, the men who had charged Maissen and secured his conviction now organised two men described in some sources as contract killers to kill him. The murder took place at Planggis, a short distance to the west of Chur, on 26 May 1678. Maissen had been en route to Ems at the time. [2]
The International Code of Conduct Association for Private Security Service Providers ("ICoCA") recognises ISO/PAS 28007 as a standard to achieve ICoCA certification. [ 5 ] The United Kingdom Accreditation Service ("UKAS") is the only national accreditation body that accredits auditing companies to certify to the standard.
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Iraqi contract security in the International (Green) Zone of Baghdad In December 2006, there were estimated to be at least 100,000 contractors working directly for the United States Department of Defense in Iraq which was a tenfold increase in the use of private contractors for military operations since the Persian Gulf War , just over a decade ...