Russia responded swiftly, deploying hundreds of troops and special forces with orders to shoot to kill.

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The common law rule has always been that if a homeowner legitimately fears for his own safety or that of his home, he may shoot to kill an intruder.

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He said he decided to break his silence after watching a "CNN Presents" documentary, "Shoot to Kill, " about the days after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.

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On February 6, 1989, two East Germans, believing the shoot-to-kill order had been lifted, attempted to escape.

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He also signed a measure allowing Wisconsin residents to carry concealed weapons, and a bill giving legal protection to homeowners who shoot and kill intruders on their property.

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Players take on the guise of one of the leaders and try to kill off the other two in a Death Match type shoot-out modelled on the Unreal Tournament game system.

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If the police kill a crook, she flies to the scene of the shoot-out to pose over the bleeding corpse.

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The way the statute is written, an individual who observes a fistfight could conceivably shoot and kill the dominator in the fight if they reasonably believed that person was going to cause "great bodily harm" to the other.

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