executionernoun [ C ]
uk/ˌek.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən.ər/us/ˌek.səˈkjuː.ʃən.ɚ/someone whose job is to execute criminals
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- decapitate
- execute
- execution
- gallows
- garrotte
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
- string sb up
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Examples from literature
- The executioner approached to throw the rope over the neck of his victim.
- The executioner intimated that the moment of execution had arrived, and that they must part.
- The executioners, too, are picked out from among the strongest men, and are so well trained that they never miss a blow.