The word "executioner" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is most commonly used in reference to a person who is responsible for carrying out a death penalty, but it can also be used to refer to someone who carries out orders without questioning. For example: "The King appointed the executioner to carry out his orders."
Jamin, on email (The Cheshire Cat's head is floating above the King, Queen, & executioner) "The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had never had to do such a thing before, and that he wasn't going to begin at his time of life.
It was fitting too that the most decisive blow should be struck by Burruchaga, who on the day was best cast for the role of West Germany's executioner.
Emwazi is known to many of his fellow fighters as Abu Abdullah al-Britani, and has a reputation within the group as a ruthless executioner who will kill on command.
The executioner was André Obrecht, the second chief executioner in France, who made a separate living as a bookmaker and with a business selling ice cream on the Paris cinema circuit.
A downloadable pdf application form for the executioner jobs, available on the website carrying Monday's date, said the jobs were classified as "religious functionaries" and that they would be at the lower end of the civil service pay scale.
For the scores of people around Hill – from his family and friends, to his lawyers and disability campaigners, through the prison guards and executioner, right up to the judges of the appeal courts and the US supreme court – the events of Tuesday night were traumatic yet all too familiar.
No, nor even as lawmaker, policeman, jury, judge and executioner to planet Earth.
Given the apparent British identity of the executioner, the public probably needs little convincing that IS could become a threat in Britain.If Mr Cameron were to hold a Commons vote on military intervention in Iraq, he would probably win a large majority.
According to the British, as EOKA's chief executioner he probably killed more.
In a single speech, Geoffrey Howe, Margaret Thatcher's foreign secretary, metamorphosed from Denis Healey's "dead sheep" to the parliamentary executioner of one of Britain's most powerful prime ministers.
Even China, the world's most avid executioner, is seeking to limit the death penalty and make it more humane by using more lethal injections.
