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

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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?

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