executioner
/ˌɛksəˈkjuʃənɚ/ sustantivo C1En español: verdugo, carnífice, verduga, sicario
- An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.
- A hit man, especially being in some organization.
Plural executioners
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The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead of—as is the case when a curtain falls on a tragedy—going home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest, that he may recommence his mimic woes on the morrow,—is removed from your sight merely to be reconducted to his prison and delivered up to the executioner.
Upon my word, you killed him ere the executioner had laid his hand upon him.”
“For a very serious matter, which bids fair to make work for the executioner.”
In this case he was not the judge, but the executioner.
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