public executioner
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And, he reminds the budding journalists, "you are not the judge, jury and public executioner."
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2016
Boz, however, seems to have felt himself called upon to act thus as public executioner on two occasions only.
From Bardell v. Pickwick by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
It chanced at one time that the office of public executioner was vacant.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott
The Lettres Philosophiques sur les Anglais, which followed, were condemned by the Parliament to be burnt by the public executioner.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
In Denmark his book was burned by the public executioner.
From Books Fatal to Their Authors by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
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