Six men suspected of involvement in the murder in August of Ecuador's anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio were killed in prison on Friday, the prisons agency said, barely a week before a crucial run-off election.
One of the occupational hazards of being a hitman is that your client who hired you will have you killed after you perform your services in order to silence you.
Maybe, but much less likely. They’re probably foot soldiers and their orders came from their own gangs leadership, and not those responsible for ordering the assininatons. So that specific chain has effectively been broken.
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One of the occupational hazards of being a hitman is that your client who hired you will have you killed after you perform your services in order to silence you.
To be fair, thus may only apply if you end up in prison
Same is true for the hit men who took out the hit men. It is a never ending cycle.
It’s hitmen all the way down
Maybe, but much less likely. They’re probably foot soldiers and their orders came from their own gangs leadership, and not those responsible for ordering the assininatons. So that specific chain has effectively been broken.