Sentence examples for former executioner from inspiring English sources

The story draws from many samurai and kung fu films, but its principal inspiration is "Lone Wolf and Cub," the classic manga series by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima about an itinerant former executioner and his young son.

He mines archives to sketch the life of the first real narco baron, Arnold Rothstein, and later enters a US jail to interview a former executioner for Rothstein's most savage descendants, the Mexican Zetas cartel, who crossed the border to give himself up when he couldn't take it any more.

I was not there — it was a closed hearing — but those who were reported that the cry of the former executioner betrayed such suffering that one of the few survivors of Tuol Sleng screamed out, "Here are the words that I've longed to hear for 30 years!" It could be that forgiveness is possible after a simple, natural process, when the victim feels that he has been repaid.

The quirky, square-shaped Short Leg Gate Tower at the top of Lühike Jalg (or Little Leg street) is supposed to be one of most haunted; regular sightings include a monk (reputedly a former executioner with a guilty conscience) and a floating woman bedecked in medieval dress.

You have a former executioner, you have got the chaplain.

Frederick Peters as Chauvin, a former executioner who has become a zombie under Legendre's control.

The book includes an interview with Darshan Singh, the former chief executioner at Singapore's Changi prison, who was said to have executed 1,000 prisoners over half a century.

Mr Lukashenko has neutered parliament, intimidated independent media, eliminated rivals (if his former chief executioner is to be believed), and now, it seems, rigged his own re-election.

It contains a profile of Darshan Singh, a former chief executioner at Singapore's Changi Prison, who – according to the author – put to death about 1,000 men and women between 1959 and 2006, when he retired.

In this political thriller from Norman Jewison (whose last feature film was "The Hurricane"), Mr. Caine plays a former Nazi executioner who has led an undisturbed postwar life in France until he is suddenly on everyone's hit list.

In his 2012 film The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer asked former regime executioners for Suharto to reenact their deeds in genres of their choosing.