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

But there was no public executioner; and there are many records of the flight of guilty persons, though an intention to make "the punishment fit the crime" is evident.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

The Bolshevists in Petrograd are finding a difficulty in the appointment of a public executioner.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 by Various

Sire," replied Crillon, "I beg your Majesty's pardon for reminding you, that there is a public executioner appointed by law, and I must not interfere with any other man's office.

From Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

Boz, however, seems to have felt himself called upon to act thus as public executioner on two occasions only. 

From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington