public executioner
Example Sentences
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And, he reminds the budding journalists, "you are not the judge, jury and public executioner."
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2016
The dignity attached to the military profession, and the indignity of the office of public executioner, are capricious, arbitrary, and sentimental.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
Though very many people believe in the necessity of capital punishment, there are few who do not feel a decided aversion to the public executioner.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
It chanced at one time that the office of public executioner was vacant.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott
Isidorus thought well to evade giving an account of his adventure in the Catacomb, and, to turn the conversation, asked how the Christians had obtained the body of Lucius from the public executioner.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow
