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Definition of executioner in English: executionernoun ɛksɪˈkjuːʃ(ə)nəˌɛksəˈkjuʃ(ə)nər An official who carries out a sentence of death on a condemned person. 死刑执行人，行刑人 Example sentencesExamples - He has repeatedly appealed to his supporters and voters not to offer any resistance and to continue to trust the state, its executioners and its prison wardens.
- The military will act as interrogators, prosecutors, defense counsel, judges, and when death sentences are imposed, as executioners.
- The executioner was beheaded outside the pub by Royalists and had his head placed on a pike outside as a warning to other rebels.
- The executioner shook the condemned man's hands, removed the steps and the platform dropped back on its hinges.
- Led to the scaffold from a death row cell, he was prepped for the noose by a masked executioner.
- Most likely it was some tradition from the days long ago when the executioners would personally behead the criminals.
- The executioners are armed with rifles carrying bayonets and they stand about two steps away from the condemned.
- The masked executioner slipped the noose around Shadow's neck and slowly adjusted it to fit.
- But the killing fails to meet the standard of a crime even now, because her executioners believed they were dispatching an enemy agent, and the integrity of that belief cannot be invalidated retrospectively.
- He struggled as a man condemned to death struggles in the hands of the executioner, knowing that he cannot save himself.
- I hate to admit it but I feel almost afraid, as if I'm waiting in a condemned cell for the arrival of an executioner.
- His sadism increased with age and at 31, in AD 68, he stabbed himself in the throat, narrowly missing his official death: being stripped and flogged by executioners.
- Back in the bad old days, didn't condemned criminals sometimes have to pay the executioner's fee for chopping off their own heads?
- It had been difficult to find an executioner to carry out the sentence.
- There were interviews with executioners who described the process that was unfolding behind the prison walls.
- Near them are statues of the three executioners Bao employed to put different ranks of criminals to death.
- It would neither distress the condemned person, nor the executioner on the other side as he pulled the trigger.
- There are even interviews with white riot policeman and executioners, but the power of the film belongs to the music, and ‘powerful’ is an understatement.
- As they leave, a white liquid giving off a gas slowly seeps from the left and we discover these men are executioners and this is a death chamber.
- It will also tell the story of Henry's brother Thomas, who was the longest serving of the Pierrepoint executioners and carried out around 300 hangings in 40 years.
Synonyms hangman, official killer firing squad historical headsman, Jack Ketch
Definition of executioner in US English: executionernounˌɛksəˈkjuʃ(ə)nərˌeksəˈkyo͞oSH(ə)nər An official who carries out a sentence of death on a legally condemned person. 死刑执行人，行刑人 Example sentencesExamples - It would neither distress the condemned person, nor the executioner on the other side as he pulled the trigger.
- But the killing fails to meet the standard of a crime even now, because her executioners believed they were dispatching an enemy agent, and the integrity of that belief cannot be invalidated retrospectively.
- The military will act as interrogators, prosecutors, defense counsel, judges, and when death sentences are imposed, as executioners.
- Most likely it was some tradition from the days long ago when the executioners would personally behead the criminals.
- He struggled as a man condemned to death struggles in the hands of the executioner, knowing that he cannot save himself.
- The executioner was beheaded outside the pub by Royalists and had his head placed on a pike outside as a warning to other rebels.
- As they leave, a white liquid giving off a gas slowly seeps from the left and we discover these men are executioners and this is a death chamber.
- The executioners are armed with rifles carrying bayonets and they stand about two steps away from the condemned.
- He has repeatedly appealed to his supporters and voters not to offer any resistance and to continue to trust the state, its executioners and its prison wardens.
- It had been difficult to find an executioner to carry out the sentence.
- The executioner shook the condemned man's hands, removed the steps and the platform dropped back on its hinges.
- Near them are statues of the three executioners Bao employed to put different ranks of criminals to death.
- Led to the scaffold from a death row cell, he was prepped for the noose by a masked executioner.
- Back in the bad old days, didn't condemned criminals sometimes have to pay the executioner's fee for chopping off their own heads?
- It will also tell the story of Henry's brother Thomas, who was the longest serving of the Pierrepoint executioners and carried out around 300 hangings in 40 years.
- I hate to admit it but I feel almost afraid, as if I'm waiting in a condemned cell for the arrival of an executioner.
- The masked executioner slipped the noose around Shadow's neck and slowly adjusted it to fit.
- There were interviews with executioners who described the process that was unfolding behind the prison walls.
- His sadism increased with age and at 31, in AD 68, he stabbed himself in the throat, narrowly missing his official death: being stripped and flogged by executioners.
- There are even interviews with white riot policeman and executioners, but the power of the film belongs to the music, and ‘powerful’ is an understatement.
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