Skip to content

Executioner - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Headsman

An executioner who cuts off heads

electrocutioner

an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person

Deathsman

An executioner a headsman or hangman

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Hangman

One who hangs another esp one who makes a business of hanging a public executioner sometimes used as a term of reproach without reference to office

Dempster

pronounce for doom.' For a length of years the office was held in commendam with that of the executioner; it has long been abolished. See Scott's Heart of Midlothian, ch. xxiii.

Ketch, John

Ketch, John, the public executioner in the reigns of Charles II and James II. Formerly a popular name for those who succeeded him

Espadon

A long heavy two handed and two edged sword formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners

  • Next ›

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial