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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. It involves an agreement which includes some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise.
The following is a list of contract killers (also referred to hitman), both current and former. Contract killing is defined as the unlawful assassination murder of a targeted party.
Jun 28, 2019 · Alexander Solonik was believed to have been a contract killer for the Russian mob. He was supposedly a former member of the Russian special forces, and it is rumored that he assassinated NATO officials during the Cold War for the Russian government, who hoped to destabilize NATO.
Oct 7, 2019 · Contract killers risk botching a hit if they see their target as a human being, researchers found in one of the only large-scale studies of hitmen ever.
Mar 11, 2014 · With Richard Alexander, Dallas Barnett, Renee Cataldo, Kerry Glamsch. Double-crossed by those he trusted the most, a newbie government hit man discovers that he's the target for the world's most dangerous assassin and so begins a ruthless game of kill first or be killed.
Charles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007) was an American contract killer and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be assassinated in the 20th century.
It’s no wonder that films featuring contract killers, hitmen, and assassins make for a delightful distraction, albeit a bloody one, and that the ones that stand out, transcend the action or thriller genre they exist in and become something more.
Nov 22, 2021 · At least 2,700 contract killings took place in 2019 and 2020 in more than 80 countries, enabling criminals to silence those who oppose them and dissuade efforts into investigating their activities, according to a Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) report.
May 1, 2020 · Hollywood has a number of contract killers like John Wick, but which are the best? This list narrows down ten of them.
Sep 12, 2023 · In Richard Linklater's new comedy, Glen Powell plays a chameleonic man who poses as a contract killer to catch the people looking to hire a real one.
