executioners
Hired state killers
Executioners are people who carry out death sentences.
The term extends to anyone who kills in an official capacity or with cold efficiency.
Figuratively, an executioner is someone who destroys or ends something decisively: He became the executioner of his own career.
One who beheads
- hangmanOne who kills condemned
- axemanOne who chops wood
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- blockSolid mass, or impede
hood · blade · gallows · beheading · dispatch · condemned · prisoner · warrant
Bladed tool for chopping
- swordHilted fighting blade
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
- nooseLoop that constricts
electric chair · lethal injection · garrote · block · blindfold · straps · restraints · hood
Medieval riverside fortress
- French RevolutionLate-1700s republican upheaval
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
masked · infamy · royal decree · beheader · Anne Boleyn · Marie Antoinette · Charles I · regicide
One that ruins completely
- terminatorOne who ends things
- annihilatorOne who destroys completely
- eliminatorWhat removes or destroys
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
assassin · slayer · reaper · enforcer · hitman · exterminator · liquidator · angel of death
headsman
One who beheads
block · hood · blade · gallows · beheading · dispatch · condemned · prisoner · warrant · death sentence
axe
Bladed tool for chopping
- swordHilted fighting blade
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
noose · electric chair · lethal injection · garrote · block · blindfold · straps · restraints · hood · blade
Tower of London
Medieval riverside fortress
- French RevolutionLate-1700s republican upheaval
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
scaffold · masked · infamy · royal decree · beheader · Anne Boleyn · Marie Antoinette · Charles I · regicide · official
destroyer
One that ruins completely
- terminatorOne who ends things
- annihilatorOne who destroys completely
- eliminatorWhat removes or destroys
harbinger · assassin · slayer · reaper · enforcer · hitman · exterminator · liquidator · angel of death
- haunted attractionshaunted house, jump scare, haunted maze, jump scares, strobe light
- Passion narrativeJesus, Jesus Christ, Pilate, Pontius Pilate, Barabbas
- Historical Policingconstables, sheriffs, watchmen, night watch, bobbies
- oppressorstyrants, despots, dictators, autocrats, authoritarians
- English CatholicismEnglish Reformation, Catholic bishops, Catholic clergy, priest holes, Catholic missions
- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, crime
executionerslifesavers
Rescuers or ring candies
saviors · rescuers · healers · paramedics · resuscitators
executionerspardoners
Sellers of religious absolution
defense attorneys · abolitionists · public defenders · exonerators · human rights activists
- judge, jury and executionerComplete autonomous legal authority