execution style

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execution style

Describing a shooting in which the victim is conscious and shot at close range, often with no means of escape. I'm terrified to go into that neighborhood now that I've heard about the execution style shootings that have happened there.
See also: execution, style
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A source said: "This fella looks to be the victim of an execution-style killing.
EXECUTED; Man shot dead with four bullets in the body, 2 in the head
The victims, each shot execution-style in the head, included seven adults and one juvenile.
Manhunt underway as eight family members slain in Ohio
He was later killed execution-style by firing squad on Wednesday.
Daesh kills Iraqi journalist in Mosul
There are signs of bullet wounds to their heads and upper parts of their bodies, apparently the result of execution-style killings.
Amnesty International says Ukraine rebels killed captive soldiers
Many of them were already gone, because they were gunned down execution-style.
Defiant magazine to boost print run to a million
A week ago, police found seven Egyptian Christians shot dead execution-style on a beach outside Benghazi, home to several oil firms.
Gunmen kill French national in Libya's Benghazi
The killing comes a week after police found seven Egyptian Christians shot dead execution-style on a beach outside Benghazi, home to several oil firms.
Gunmen kill French national in Libya's Benghazi
A BRITISH man and a woman from New Zealand were shot in the head execution-style as they picnicked on a lonely beach in western Libya.
Libya Brit was shot in head execution-style; Beach picnic killings renew fears over safety of foreign workers
A police source in Salah al-Din told the reporter of the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / that "unidentified gunmen opened fire at the seven brothers, after forcing them to get out of their car in a road between the Nibai area of Salahuddin and Anbar province, southwest of Tikrit, killing them in an execution-style deaths and throw their bodies on the side of the road and stole their cars.
Gunmen kill seven brothers in an area between Tikrit and Anbar provinces
Iraqi police have discovered the bodies of 18 men who were abducted from their homes and killed execution-style in a town near Baghdad, two police sources said on Friday.
Police find 18 male corpses shot in head near Baghdad
Lahore -- The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has slammed the execution-style killing of 13 labourers in Balochistan, reportedly hailing from Punjab who were returning home to celebrate Eid.
HRCP slams brutal killing of labourers in Balochistan
Hernandez, seen as one of the NFL's rising stars, was charged on Wednesday with the execution-style murder of a friend in Massachusetts.
Aaron Hernandez Murder Charge: Puma Drops Endorsement Deal With NFL Star
A VOLUNTEER working on a project to protect baby turtles has been found dead on a beach in an execution-style killing.
Poachers kill turtle saviour
It focuses on the murderer of three young people in rural Fresno in 1980, killed execution-style by a man who was a convicted murderer already behind the walls of Folsom Prison.
Hands Through Stone
Summary: Three female Kurdish activists were shot dead in Paris just after midnight on Thursday in execution-style killings.
Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris
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