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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Under South Carolina's protocol, Bryant's executioners will place a hood over his head and strap him to a chair.
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
That's not the executioner — that's me without a head.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
Geralt remains on the executioner’s chopping block until the intervention of his own mysterious ally: Regis, finally revealed to be a vampire, who frees Geralt and gives him a potion designed to maximize his fighting prowess just as the camp is assailed by another Nilfgaardian charge.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
There were no weapons, save for the exception of the executioner's axe in A Night in Terror Tower.
—Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
That's not the executioner — that's me without a head.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
Geralt remains on the executioner’s chopping block until the intervention of his own mysterious ally: Regis, finally revealed to be a vampire, who frees Geralt and gives him a potion designed to maximize his fighting prowess just as the camp is assailed by another Nilfgaardian charge.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
There were no weapons, save for the exception of the executioner's axe in A Night in Terror Tower.
—Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Executioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/executioner. Accessed 6 Dec. 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
Legal Definition
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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