On 8/14/2019 7:31 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/14/2019 5:12 PM, micky wrote:
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?


Today it is probably wrong.Â* When I hear about a shooting of any sort
and the news reports the shooter was killed, I just figure, justice
served, quickly and cheaply.

I just looked at a couple of posters for the FBI's most wanted and they
say caution they are dangerous but no Dead or Alive:

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten

I'd say police today would only shoot them in the back if they were
armed and posed a threat.