Murder for hire

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
רצח בשכירה
Name (Latin)
Murder for hire
Name (Arabic)
القتل المأجور
Other forms of name
Contract killing
Contract murder
See Also From tracing topical name
Murder
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q17197559
Library of congress: sh 99013403
Sources of Information
  • S. Week. Speed week, c1998:jkt. (murder for hire)
  • Murder cases of the twentieth century, c1996(contract murders)
  • The Mafia enc., c1987(contract killing)

Wikipedia description:

Contract killing, sometimes known as murder-for-hire, is a form of murder or assassination in which one party employs another party to extrajudicially kill a targeted person or people via an illegal agreement that involves some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise. An act of contract killing is also known colloquially as a hit, and the person performing the killing (i.e. the contract killer or "contractor") is known as the hitman or (as borrowed from Spanish) "sicario".

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