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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.
A hitman, on the other hand, is a term that is often synonymous with contract killer although it can also be used to denote a criminal who frequently carries out a targeted killing (referred to as a "hit") on behalf of an organized crime syndicate to which they are affiliated with.
The person instigating a proxy murder may or may not be legally guilty of the crime of murder. This legal distinction varies where in the world the murder takes place. The person who instigated the murder is usually guilty as well. They may be charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, or being an accessory to murder.
A man wanted the victims killed in Florida over a $60,000 debt, feds say.
A hitman offered C$100,000 ($71,400; £56,000) for the assassination of a crime reporter at Montreal newspaper La Presse, the outlet has reported. Convicted killer Frédérick Silva confessed to ...
According to court documents, Xi took that money and spent half of it to hire another hitman, Mo Tianxiang, to do the job for him. Mo, as it turned out, had the same idea. He hired his own hitman ...
Beyond their lurid sexual details, both cases became known for the unique legal challenges presented, including difficulties determining the parties, the fact that the victims had given consent to their own deaths, and the difference between consensual homicide and suicide. [citation needed]
The ex-wife of a Woodland Hills doctor — who recently wept at his memorial — hired a hitman to ambush and murder him for financial gain, prosecutors say. Ex-wife accused of hiring hitman to ...