(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.
Official
Definition:
(n.) Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
(n.) Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report.
(n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.
(n.) Discharging an office or function.
(a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
(a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(3) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(5) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(6) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(7) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(8) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(9) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(10) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(11) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
(12) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(13) Sawers's views are echoed by both US and Israeli officials.
(14) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(15) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(16) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(17) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(18) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(19) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(20) Without a renewables target, Energy Department officials said, it would be possible for a large proportion of this shortfall to be met by gas-fired power generation.