public executioner

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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

Boz, however, seems to have felt himself called upon to act thus as public executioner on two occasions only. 

From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

At its head was a meagre villain, whom one might have taken for the public executioner.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various

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 Withrow, William Henry

Early in life, while in Italy, he wrote a grave essay on Money, which contrasted with another of rare humor suggested by the death of the public executioner.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various