Contract killing
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Contract killing is murder where a person or group is paid (usually money) to murder someone else. Someone who does this is known as a hit man (also hitman), or assassin. Contract killing is illegal, and is punishable, sometimes by death. Contract killing is often used by the mafia and drug cartels.
Contract Killing Media
The Hired Assassins (Ernest Meissonier, 1852)
Mad Dog Coll leaving court surrounded by police officers, 1931
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