Contract Killing

<p>A man was properly convicted of capital murder for hiring someone to kill his pregnant girlfriend after previously trying and failing to kill her with rat poison and antifreeze, an appeals court in Texas <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/contractkilling.pdf">ruled</a></strong>, finding that there was no evidence that he was a party, rather than a principal, to capital murder.</p>

HOUSTON — A man was properly convicted of capital murder for hiring someone to kill his pregnant girlfriend after previously trying and failing to kill her with rat poison and antifreeze, an appeals court in Texas ruled , finding that there was no evidence that he was a party, rather than a principal, to capital murder.

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