executioners

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Being locked barefoot in an executioner's chair sounds uncomfortable, but that is what Chris Pratt requested for his latest film, Mercy.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

Most of the play takes place that year, after Harry has retired from public service to the pub he runs, with an executioner’s charm, near Manchester.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022

An executioner’s daughter joins an outlaw who escaped death, in a journey that leads to vampires.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019

Told from the perspective of a narrator swept into her story but left behind on an executioner’s block, the song is both a romance and a lament.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2016

Spurge took the executioner’s chain-mail tunic and the black hood.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin