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[Dredd 2012] What was the point of shooting that one hostage-taker with a hotshot round?

At the start of the movie, Judge Dredd faces a thug who is using a woman as a human shield. He fires an incendiary hotshot round straight into his mouth, which kills him and burns his head away.

Why didn't he just fire an ordinary bullet?
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Dredd was out of his regular ammunition. He could have used something like armor piercing but went with the hotshot because he could cycle the ammo in through voice commands without alerting the perp.