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EXECUTIONER

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ex⋅e⋅cu⋅tion⋅er

  [ek-si-kyoo-shuh-ner]
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–noun
1. an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuance of a legal warrant.
2. a person who executes an act, will, judgment, etc.
Origin:
1555–65; execution + -er 1
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ex·e·cu·tion·er   (ěk'sĭ-kyōō'shə-nər)   
n.  One who executes, especially one who puts a condemned person to death.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: ex·e·cu·tion·er
Pronunciation: "ek-si-'kyü-sh&-n&r
Function: noun
: one who puts another to death in fulfillment of a judicial death sentence
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Executioner

(Mark 6:27). Instead of the Greek word, Mark here uses a Latin word, speculator, which literally means "a scout," "a spy," and at length came to denote one of the armed bodyguard of the emperor. Herod Antipas, in imitation of the emperor, had in attendance on him a company of speculatores. They were sometimes employed as executioners, but this was a mere accident of their office. (See MARK, GOSPEL OF.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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