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

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

Froude examined the strange and startling allegation, cited by Macaulay in his introductory chapter, that during the reign of Henry VIII. seventy-two thousand persons perished by the hand of the public executioner.

From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)

Well, I think he should myself, but I'm not the public executioner, and one can't fight a duel with a priest—" "Señor!

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

The most detestable of all employments, that of the public executioner, is, in proportion to the quantity of work done, better paid than any common trade whatever.”

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart