executioner
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- n an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
- A merciless executioner during the revolution's early days, he later enforced cruel purges and crackdowns.
- A report spread through Pennsylvania last week that Robert Elliott, official executioner for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, had collapsed and resigned his .
- Not merry, the life of an executioner is often profitable.