Sentence examples for contract killings from inspiring English sources

Several athletic officials died in apparent contract killings.

Contract killings persist in Sofia, as does corruption among prosecutors and judges.

Another, a former L.A.P.D. officer, is serving life without parol for contract killings.

The judge reached this conclusion because, in his (incorrect) view, that aggravating circumstance was limited to contract killings.

Recent research suggests that the contract killings related to those wars likely numbered in the thousands.

Contract killings for other groups, officials said, began in the 1970's.

Authorities have accused them of ordering contract killings and carrying out kidnappings and innumerable financial crimes.

Yet unlike Russia, there is no organised political gangsterism, mafia-inspired contract killings, or civil war.

Although contract killings are unusual in Russia, a recent spate has set people on edge.

Interior Ministry officials assigned a team of investigators specializing in contract killings to the case.

Rival business groups used contract killings to try to intimidate one another.