Sentence examples for serial executioner from inspiring English sources
The first thing that most Europeans were told about Candidate Bush was that he was a serial executioner.
And, despite the popularity of the death penalty in the United States, Mr Bush's record as a serial executioner may come back to haunt him, particularly if it becomes clear that some innocent people have been executed.Probably none of these issues will cost Mr Bush the election.
America's favorite serial killer is judge, jury, and executioner all wrapped up in one.
The lyrics were inspired by Norman Mailer's 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Executioner's Song, written about serial killer Gary Gilmore, and by Truman Capote's 1966 novel In Cold Blood.
In among the 40 jobs he undertook in the 1970s, Lee's sword and sorcery, murder and spook movies made way for his roles as a U-boat captain in Spielberg's 1941 19799), a Hell's Angel biker in Serial (1980) and, back in Europe, the studied interpretation of the executioner Charles-Henri Sanson as a dandy, for a 1989 French TV history of the Revolution.
He had to suspend work on Ancient Evenings, a big, windy, (over-) ambitious novel about serial reincarnation, set in the Egypt of 1130BC, in order to write The Executioner's Song.
The lyrics, which portray the mind of a serial killer, were inspired by lead singer Bono's reading of Norman Mailer's 1980 novel The Executioner's Song, and other related works.
The British-accented executioner in the video of Stephen Sotloff's beheading taunted "I'm back," like a B-horror flick serial killer.
Pity the modern executioner.
