executioner

He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace.

Underpinning that power was a reign of terror the like of which Chechens had not seen since the days of Stalin. Even the Russian contraktniki, or freelance fighters, were not as feared as Mr Kadyrov's

The mouth is the executioner and the doctor of the body.

The executioner fondled his hatchet and smiled complacently. He felt he was a cut above the rest.

The executioner struck off her feet with the red shoes, and the shoes danced away with the little feet across the field into the deep forest.

I'm your doctor, not your executioner.