That doesn’t portray a hero, but rather someone so arrogant as to invent his own law and appoint himself its executioner.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2025
The executioner who initiates the flow of lethal chemicals into Tanzi's body then enters the room to begin the state's three-drug protocol — beginning with etomidate, an anesthetic, followed by rocuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium acetate, which will induce cardiac arrest.
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Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
Being an executor of an estate is a huge task, and the role only gets more complicated as the estate size increases.
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Steve Hruby,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Getting precise information on assets may be helpful to fulfilling your obligations as a personal administrator (executor) or successor trustee under the deceased spouse’s revocable trust.
The death penalty has just been abolished in the United Kingdom, and all the townspeople in Oldham want to know what the second-best hangman in the country has to say about it.
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Luann Gibbs,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
But since taking office, the president has been tightening up his definition of freedom like a hangman’s noose.
In the twilight of her career, Parker still showed flashes of the once baby-haired assassin who shook up the WNBA.
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Anthony De Leon,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2025
The Day of the Jackal follows a professional British assassin called the Jackal (Eddie Redmayne), known only for his ruthless and mysterious methods, and Bianca Pullman (Lashana Lynch), an MI6 agent intent on hunting him down.
Several other leading figures of the period ended their days on the executioner’s block, including the unhappy Comte de Chalais, whose headsman bungled the job and ended up frantically chopping away at his screaming victim with a small hatchet.
Meanwhile, the standard Amp offers AirPlay while the Pro doesn’t, adding to its cascade of streaming options, HDMI ARC support, and a potent power supply for a killer A/V entry point.
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Simon Hill,
Wired News,
10 July 2025
For now, at least, the answer is given clarity in the form of a curiosity-spiking club for serial killers.
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