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Executioner
Definition:
(n.) One who executes; an executer.
(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.