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executioner

noun

Definition of executioner

as in murderer

a person who executes people who have been sentenced to death was sentenced to face the executioner

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Recent Examples of executioner By the end of it, executioners had given her two doses of the state’s lethal injection drugs. — Keri Blakinger, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2026 Prisoners have suffered for long periods as executioners fail to find a suitable vein. — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026 During the attempts, Pike even tried to guide the executioners on where to find a vein, Ferrell said. — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2026 However, conservative commentators have used the Cornell incident to caution against playing judge, jury, and executioner without allowing a thorough investigation. — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for executioner

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Alongside her scientifically credible poisoning scenarios, numerous doctors and pharmacists appear in Christie’s novels — sometimes as victims, other times as murderers — showing how her early brushes with the world of medicine never left her mind.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
Playing a dark character was hardly a new shtick for Woods, who landed his breakout role as real-life murderer Gregory Powell in The Onion Field (1979).

— Kelly Martinez, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2026

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The Democratic presidential front-runner had just finished his California primary victory speech — thanking Chávez and Huerta — when an assassin gunned him down.

— James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Nearly all of those 80 teams had a wing player who was either a prolific scorer, an in-his-prime All-Star, an accomplished floor general or a skilled shot creator/late-game assassin.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026

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