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Today I Found Out: Season 2019

2019x121 Could You Really Legally Kill Someone with a "Wanted Dead or Alive" Bounty on Their Head?

  • 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 5m
  • United States
  • Documentary, Special Interest
Ch→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: Why is Lead Bad For Humans? https://youtu.be/tqXvwaBKtRc The People Who Can't Sleep https://youtu.be/JWgjXmu0VQM In this video: A classic Hollywood trope is the idea of a poster with the photo of a given criminal along with very large print text that would say something like “Wanted- Dead or Alive”. But did these actually ever exist and could you actually kill someone legally when such a poster was issued by the authorities? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/05/could-you-really-legally-kill-someone-with-a-wanted-dead-or-alive-bounty/ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted_poster https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/digital-billboard-initiative/digital-billboard-initiative https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-history-of-the-most-wanted-poster_b_5851ba70e4b0865ab9d4e8d7 http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item105922.html https://www.fbi.gov/?came_from=https%3A//www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/inactive/usama-bin-laden https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/20/rare-wanted-poster-printed-after-lincoln-assassination-display-harvard/eTtK1FkT8NzediC0veWozL/story.html https://truewestmagazine.com/i-read-somewhere-that-no-legal-agency-ever-put-out-wanted-posters-that-stated-dead-or-alive-whats-the-truth/ https://www.history.com/news/jesse-james-wanted-poster-goes-up-for-auction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleeing_felon_rule https://archive.org/details/lifeoftomhorngov00hornrich/page/n12 https://archive.org/details/cu31924002532475/page/n18 https://www.bountyhunteredu.org/what-is-a-bounty-hunter/ https://medium.com/bounties-network/a-brief-history-of-bounties-9ad5d
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