Is 'Kill or Capture' the same as 'Wanted, Dead or Alive?'

[ZombieHorde]

Other than the spelling, numbers of syllables, etc.

[panader0]

1. Everyone is delicious

[Xenotime]

2. I wanted to vote for the third option as that was pretty funny.

[The Wielding Truth]

3. It's is better to have the option of capture unless your life is endangered.

[stray cat]

4. Any criminal can be killed if they pose a threat to someone - they may end up dead during the chase

even.

[grahamhgreen]

5. Wasn't "wanted dead or alive" issued after a trial?

How, why, and by whom was it issued?

Was it legal? Did it really exist?

[cliffordu]

6. Issued by sherriffs and marshals,

no judicial involvement AFAIK.

[Luminous Animal]

7. So, we've reverted back to extra-judicial frontier justice, have we?

Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaw!

[ZombieHorde]

8. I am not sure.

I don't really know how frontier justice worked.

[Luminous Animal]

10. Wanted, Dead or Alive...

is artifact of extra-judicial "justice". GWB used it, in deference to the wild west, in referring to his quest for Bin Laden and was soundly mocked for his swaggering cowboy approach to justice.

[ZombieHorde]

12. "is artifact of extra-judicial "justice"

Do you study frontier history? I don't and I doubt GWB does.

I am not trying to be snarky, I really don't know much about frontier justice. I have seen a lot of Westerns, but I don't consider them factual in anyway.

[Luminous Animal]

13. "Wanted, Dead or Alive" is not and has not been U.S. law enforcement policy.

It is a story, perhaps expanded more in mythology than actual policy, of the "wild, wild, west."

I don't know what the point is of your poll, but U.S. law enforcement does not release requests of "Wanted, Dead or Alive", except, apparently, Obama.

[Rex]

9. Well, for the first time we actually admit to being a country that assassinates people.

So if that is better transparency or just an eye opener to people I dunno. War crimes don't care who is in charge imo. What are the legalities behind assassination, internationally? We won't even get into the fact that it is an American.

[Hippo_Tron]

11. No we've been fully opening about assassinating people for quite some time

The question is about assassinating US citizens.

[HopeHoops]

14. Not at all. "Kill or Capture" is in English. "Wanted, Dead or Alive" is in cowboy.