public executioner

Example Sentences

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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

We have proof that he was conducting his business after the year in which it is stated that he suffered death at the hands of the public executioner.

From Bygone Punishments by Andrews, William

In Denmark his book was burned by the public executioner.

From Books Fatal to Their Authors by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

The office of public executioner or Jack Ketch of a canton in Switzerland, as well as in many parts of Germany, is very appropriately endowed.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

The dignity of a wise and righteous judge needs not the artificial safeguarding which is a heritage of the old days when if dissent found a tongue the public executioner cut it out.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)