Contract killing is a form of assassination Assassinations may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military reasons. Additionally, assassins may be motivated by financial gain, revenge, or personal public recognition, in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people. It involves an illegal agreement An illegal agreement, under the common law of contract, is one that the courts will not enforce because the purpose of the agreement is to achieve an illegal end. The illegal end must result from performance of the contract itself. However, a contract that requires only legal performance on the part of each party, such as the sale of packs of between two parties in which one party agrees to kill the target in exchange for consideration Consideration is the legal concept of value in connection with contracts. It is anything of value in the common sense, promised to another when making a contract. It can take the form of money, physical objects, services, promised actions, or even abstinence from a future action. If either promisee already had a legal obligation to render such, monetary or otherwise. The hiring party may be a single person, a group of people, a company, or any other kind of organization. The hired party may also be one person, such as a hitman A hitman or hitwoman usually is an assassin who is hired to eliminate a target via contract killing, or a group of people, or an organization.
In the United States ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language, the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[note 7] is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border, sharing, and many other countries, a contract to kill a person is void, meaning that it is not legally enforceable. Any contract to commit an indictable offense is not enforceable. Furthermore, both the actual killer and the person who paid the killer can be found guilty of murder Murder, as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent , and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter). As the loss of a human being inflicts enormous grief upon the individuals close to the victim, as well as the fact that the. In some U.S. jurisdictions with capital punishment Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head" . Hence, a capital crime was originally one, a contract killing may be a special circumstance that allows for a murder to be tried as a federal crime In the United States, a federal crime or federal offense is a crime that is either made illegal by U.S. federal legislation or a crime that occurs on U.S. federal property.
Contract killing provides the hiring party with the advantage of not having to be directly involved in the killing. This makes it more difficult to connect that party with the murder.
Throughout history and in many different parts of the world, contract killing has been associated with organized crime Organized crime or criminal organizations is a transnational grouping of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. The Organized Crime Control Act defines organized crime as "The unlawful activities of [...] a highly organized, and also vendettas A feud (referred to in more extreme cases as a blood feud or vendetta or faida) is a long-running argument or fight between parties—often, through guilt by association, groups of people, especially families or clans. Feuds begin because one party (correctly or incorrectly) perceives itself to have been attacked, insulted or wronged by another. For example, in recent United States history, the gang Murder, Inc. Murder, Inc. — or Murder Incorporated, or the Brownsville Boys — was the name given by the press to organized crime group in the 1920s, '30s and '40s that resulted in hundreds of murders on behalf of the American Mafia, and their Jewish counterparts who together formed the early Organized crime groups in New York and elsewhere. The name ", which committed hundreds of murders in the 1920s to the 1940s on behalf of the National Crime Syndicate The National Crime Syndicate was the name given by the press to a loosely-organized multi-ethnic organized crime syndicate, started in 1931, by Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky and other ethnic crime bosses based in New York City and New Jersey. Luciano and Lansky proposed a "board of directors.", is a well-known example of a contract killer.
Statistics
A study by the Australian Institute of Criminology of 162 attempted or actual contract murders in Australia between 1989 and 2002 indicated that the most common reason for murder-for-hire was "the dissolution of an intimate relationship". The study also found that the average payment for a "hit" was $12,700 and that the most commonly used weapons were firearms. Contract killings accounted for 2% of murders in Australia during that time period.[1] Contract killings make up a relatively similar percentage of all killings elsewhere. For example, they made up about 5% of all murders in Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, Scotland from 1993 to 2002.[2]
Notes
- ^ CNN Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is a U.S. cable news network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first network to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States. While the news network has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily: CNN.com "Lovers Top Contract Killing Hit List (Feb. 5, 2004)
- ^ Government of Scotland: Homicides in Scotland between 1993 and 2002
External links
- http://www.casoabierto.com/Reportajes/Investigacion/Sicarios-The-Business-of-Killing.html (archived version)
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