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This is kind of gruesome, so if you're about to eat lunch, etc., you might
not want to read it. (The concept is gruesome -- there's no gory details or
anything below.)

A friend of mine, in a blog post, used コントロールショット as a translation of the
term "control shot" which he had seen in US newspaper articles about the
Russian mafia. "Control shot" is a literal translation from Russian
("kontrol'nyj vystrel"), meaning a gunshot (generally to the head) made
_after_ the victim has been shot down, in order to make absolutely sure the
person is dead. I told my friend that in English a "control shot" sounds
like something participants in a clinical trial might receive. Naturally, he
asked me what we call it in English, but I couldn't come up with anything
good. A "finishing shot" was the closest I could I get, but that doesn't
sound right. I know I've seen it in the movies in contexts unrelated to the
Russian mafia--soldiers walking around a body-strewn battlefield, putting
bullets in the heads of the bodies and stipping them of their weapons, that
kind of thing. So we've got the concept in English, but is there a word for
it? I think kontrol'nyj vystrel is Russian military jargon. Is there some
kind of corresponding English jargon?

Thanks,
Marc Adler

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