1.   Perry said Taylor approached him and asked him to carry out a contract killing on Johnson.

2.   Also covered are serial killings, contract killings, murders of judges, murders involving torture and murders of police officers and prison guards who are on duty.

3.   Although contract killings are virtually routine in Russia, Moscow has generally been safe from terrorists.

4.   An article about a series of contract killings enraged one of the crime bosses, who warned Ivanov in late March that he could be killed.

5.   And it shocked many Russians, who already are accustomed to a regular diet of accidents, tragedies and contract killings.

6.   Before he signed it into law, then-Gov. Thomas H. Kean asked that it be amended to also cover contract killings.

7.   Buciano opted for the scam in exchange for the contract killing, Robison said.

8.   But threats and contract killings have become such a disturbingly common way for Russians to resolve business disputes that foreigners are no longer off-limits.

9.   Chagra, who feared Wood, was believed to have hired Harrelson in the contract killing.

10.   Evans downplayed suggestions it was a premeditated contract killing.