In article , NONONOmisc07
@bigfoot.com says...

If someone is a gunfighter and bank robber or a highwayman, and in the
course of robbing banks or holding up stagecoaches, he kills 3 or 4
innocent people, and the Wanted poster for him says Dead or Alive, is it
wrong to shoot him in the back?



That was back in the 'old west', maybe even as seen on TV.

Now about the only you could get away with shooting him in the back is
if he is shooting at someone and you just hapen to get behind him.
Unless he has a weapon out you probably can not shoot him at all by
todays standards.