(n.) One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Personally, I sometimes wish drugs would be made legal so that the gringos can get high and we can live in peace," said Tijuana police officer Elisio Montes, whose two best friends, his former boss and assistant, were murdered by executioners for the cartels.
(2) Afterwards, the camera played over the faces of the executioners, ensuring that the foreign fighters were clearly visible and sparking a rush to name them.
(3) Maurie Levin, one of a team of lawyers working on the new Texas litigation, said that “if nothing else, Mr Lockett’s execution in Oklahoma makes clear that you can’t simply take the word of the executioner that everything will be OK. Access to information is necessary to be able to determine whether we are at risk of an execution like what happened last night.” The second scheduled execution is that of Russell Bucklew, 45, in Missouri on 21 May.
(4) The book is as much a history of the executed as of the executioners.
(5) Mass killings, Himmler said, were a heroic task requiring great courage, loyalty to the Führer and ability to bear the suffering involved in being an executioner.
(6) Messi's incisions into Nigeria's half were as sharp and deep as a executioner's blade.
(7) In his autobiography, Executioner (1974), he expressed regret about his life's work.
(8) Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners as beheading rate soars Read more A surge in executions began towards the end of the reign of King Abdullah, who died in January.
(9) We need restraint from the police in situations like Eric’s and Michael Brown in Ferguson – not a police officer acting as judge, jury and executioner – we need that kind of crime out of our police departments across the country.” The veteran civil rights campaigner Al Sharpton called on the crowd not to oppose the police department per se, but to call on New York mayor Bill de Blasio to reform it.
(10) He was the lead executioner for Isis, and let us never forget he killed many, many Muslims too.
(11) First, he escaped his designated fate because the executioners decided there were not enough Jews in his consignment to warrant firing up the machinery of mass murder.
(12) The IRA concealed a 500lb bomb inside a car and detonated it as Gibson drove past, then issued a statement in which they condemned the judge for supporting “RUC executioners” and said that he too had been brought to the “final court of justice”.
(13) At moments it almost seems so: as if Roper actually enjoys being a partner in his own destruction, just for the pleasure of pairing with someone as intelligent and ruthless as himself; almost as if he’s a little in love with his own executioner.
(14) Many are being trained as spies, preachers, soldiers, “executioners” and suicide bombers.
(15) An unnamed boss leading the rite in police videos published on Italian newspaper websites can be heard telling the new Santa that they are now expected to be their own executioners should they stray from the ’Ndrangheta’s code.
(16) He refused to wear a blindfold so, it is said, he could look his executioners - who were also his comrades - in the eye.
(17) Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, described rules such as Missouri’s as a “distortion” of the principle of anonymity for executioners.
(18) Steve Fielding sketches the outline of the family story in Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners, The Story of Britain's Infamous Hangmen (2006).
(19) The people behind Nemtsov’s assassination know how useful it is to use Chechens as executioners, given the predictable reaction from Kadyrov, it means the investigators never get further.” That explains why, although Kadyrov has been fingered for the Nemtsov killing, many people blame someone higher: his boss in the Kremlin, the man who created the environment in which Kadyrov thrives.
(20) A sole “executioner” to turn prosecutor’s evidence at the trials, Dražen Erdemovic, described how death squads asked to sit down – they were so tired, killing wave upon wave, busload after busload, of men and boys.
Hangman
Definition:
(n.) One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of four hangman's fractures of the axis, three occurred in road accidents and were stable, undisplaced and free of neurological signs, with full recovery after six to twelve weeks in a cervical collar.
(2) In injuries above C 3, we would regard the axis body fracture with or without a hangman's fracture and a fresh fracture-dislocation or pseudoarthrosis of the odontoid process as requiring an operation.
(3) When he was found guilty of contempt of court last year for claims in his bestselling book, Once a Jolly Hangman , his youngest daughter emailed to ask: "Will they hang you Dad?"
(4) We report a three month old infant with a subtle hangman's fracture which might have been confused with primary spondylolysis.
(5) Liberals might shy away from this truth, but to that majority who would bring back the hangman's rope, a whole-life tariff is not "inhuman" punishment but the more moderate alternative.
(6) Of these there were 13 cases of odontoid fractures, 6 hangman fractures, 2 anterior inferior corner fractures, 2 atlas-axis combination fractures and 2 Jefferson fractures.
(7) Fifty years on, the debate over the penalty for murder – what replaces the hangman’s noose – rumbles on.
(8) The similarity between civilian and vehicular injuries was recognized in 1965 by Schneider who, together with his associates, reported eight cases; it was this group who introduced the term "hangman's fracture".
(9) The incidence of fracture was unassociated with drop, date age or hangman.
(10) Its wide indications include fracture-dislocations, compression fractures of the vertebral body, injuries to the disc, luxations, 'tear drop fractures' as well as "hangman's fractures".
(11) Radiographic studies revealed a spectrum of injury beginning with the classical hangman's fracture and progressing to the simple C-2 laminar-pedicle fracture.
(12) Etiologies included os odontoideum, fixed rotatory subluxation, atlantoaxial subluxation, type II dens fracture nonunion, and nonunion of a Hangman's fracture.
(13) The authors review their experience in managing 26 cases of "hangman's fracture."
(14) The various forms of strain which cause the phenomenon of the hangman's fracture are discussed in detail.
(15) The anti-homosexuality bill had been dangled over the heads of gay Ugandans like a hangman's noose for five years.
(16) In 2007, the Sun had carried a frontpage image on polling day likening the SNP's looped logo to a hangman's noose with the words: "Vote SNP today and you put Scotland's head in a noose."
(17) Describing transparency around the process as “fundamentally important” to analyses of an execution’s constitutionality, Bye accused Missouri of hiding “behind the hangman’s cloak”.
(18) The international literature calls "Hangman's fracture" (HF) the injury of the upper cervical spine with characteristic lesions of the epistropheus.
(20) 45% of cases interest the upper cervical spine (C1-C2) with a high proportion of odontoid process fractures (60%) and Hangman's fractures (30%); 54% of cases concern the lower cervical spine (C3-C7) with an important part of fracture-luxation (72%), specially C5-C6 (35%).