executioner
noun
ex·e·cu·tion·er
ˌek-si-ˈkyü-sh(ə-)nər 
: one who executes
especially
: one who puts to death
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Meanwhile, Undertaker plays the omnipotent executioner who can’t quite get Michaels to the chopping block.
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Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Now those blue passports will mark you as either one of Trump's willing executioners or one of his hapless enablers.
—Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
If the aim of the executioners is not true, death could take even longer.
—CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
No longer the beloved Renaissance prince of his youth, Henry was, by his mid-40s, an increasingly infirm and mercurial monarch who had few qualms about sending his closest companions—among them the aforementioned Thomas More—to the executioner’s block.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
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Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Now those blue passports will mark you as either one of Trump's willing executioners or one of his hapless enablers.
—Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
If the aim of the executioners is not true, death could take even longer.
—CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
No longer the beloved Renaissance prince of his youth, Henry was, by his mid-40s, an increasingly infirm and mercurial monarch who had few qualms about sending his closest companions—among them the aforementioned Thomas More—to the executioner’s block.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Executioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/executioner. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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executioner
noun
ex·e·cu·tion·er
ˌek-sə-ˈkyü-sh(ə-)nər
: a person who carries out a sentence of death
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executioner
noun
ex·e·cu·tion·er
ˌek-si-ˈkyü-shə-nər
: one who puts another to death in fulfillment of a judicial death sentence
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