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An execution-style murder also known as Chicago-style murder and execution-style killing is an act of criminal murder where the perpetrator kills at close range a conscious victim who is under the complete physical control of the assailant and who has been left with no course of resistance or escape. Execution style killing is most often a shot to the head and victims sometimes are killed kneeling. One of the more notorious occurrences of an execution-style murder was the 1929 St.