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

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)

In Denmark his book was burned by the public executioner.

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

Often have I felt that I would rather grow cabbage, like Cincinnatus, than be the public executioner of usurpations, monopolies, and other abuses. 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

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