triggerman

He was too good a triggerman to fool around with.

"It's always hard to convict someone who is not the triggerman."

He was ready to be revived, and Triggerman made him hungry again.

Berkowitz, for one, was strictly a triggerman, so to speak.

"It would be that much stronger with a triggerman."

If all went well, he would take out the triggerman but only wing Santoro.

The triggerman had reached the front of the Porsche.

"And if I asked if you had any notion of the triggerman's identity?"

But the way the chief has framed it, there's only one triggerman who can make sure of a get-away.

"Were you the triggerman in all of them?"

The triggerman was on time, to the dot.

Another triggerman appeared in the doorway, an AK-47 tucked to his side.

"But he was blown to pieces, boss," the triggerman protested.

The other testimony came from one of the other robbers, who could also have been the triggerman.

That law does not have a triggerman requirement.

The merc didn't know the triggerman; such minor details were irrelevant in any case.

Prosecutors said the triggerman was Wooten, while defense lawyers pointed to other, unidentified suspects.

You can pin the murder on the actual triggerman, but the climate is not healthy," he said.

Maryland's capital murder laws are more straightforward than Virginia's - there is no triggerman requirement.

The triggerman aimed his .38 straight between the huddled victim's eyes.

He returns fire in the direction of the assassin, and is publicly credited with taking down the triggerman.

He's the triggerman who makes it all work."

State law in Virginia and Maryland would require prosecutors to show who the actual triggerman was.

But Virginia has the triggerman requirement in its capital punishment law, and Maryland does not.

Mr. Muhammad was convicted under a broad interpretation of the triggerman rule.