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

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 Gosse, Edmund

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)

Isidorus thought well to evade giving an account of his adventure in the Catacomb, and, to turn the conversation, asked how the Christians had obtained the body of Lucius from the public executioner.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry

In Denmark his book was burned by the public executioner.

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