Executioner - Law Dictionary Search Results
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
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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
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