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 Bolshevists in Petrograd are finding a difficulty in the appointment of a public executioner.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 by Various

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 Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir

"I have been the public executioner; and I am going to lecture on the horrors of the post I have resigned."

From A Chair on the Boulevard by Merrick, Leonard

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 Bain, Alexander