1.   For instance, when a guru ordered a disciple to kill a thief, the disciple went ahead and did it as an act of virtue.

2.   I decided I had to kill the thief when I discovered two partially eaten Vitamin C tablets in my bed next to my pillow.

3.   Police surrounded and killed four thieves early Tuesday in a shootout following a robbery at a church office in a Manila suburb, police and witnesses said.

4.   Enraged community members killed a thief in an eastern Caracas suburb the same week.

5.   Six thieves were killed in vegetable gardens elsewhere in Ulyanovsk last month, ITAR-Tass said.

6.   According to state police chief James Danbaba, the thieves were killed during shoot-outs while carrying out their crimes.

7.   An alleged thief was killed and a police officer wounded after a gun fight erupted on Thursday over a stolen motorbike, authorities said..

8.   They were chased across the border by villagers, who engaged them in heavy fighting during which the alleged thief was killed.

9.   Lagos deputy commissioner of police Emmanuel Adebayo said three thieves were killed on Ikorodu road on Monday while attempting to rob bus passengers.