executioner

1 In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened “at the hands of persons unknown.”

2 “Please don’t let me fall,” Mary says to an executioner, getting dizzy as she looks down on the crowd from atop the tall, unstable gallows.

3 But it knew this woman was about to commit murder and chose to play judge, jury, and executioner with her husband.

但它知道这个女人即将杀人，于是就出手扮演她丈夫的法官、陪审团和执刑人。

4 The beast that would be his executioner must have been released.

5 I visualized a self-appointed jury of twelve people who condemned him to death and were forced by exigencies of the case to be their own executioners.

6 "She's in prison," the Queen said to the executioner, "fetch her here."

“她在监狱里，”王后对刽子手说，“把她带过来。”

7 Feeling like an executioner who knows that he must kill tomorrow, he had tried to give a little joy today.

8 “This traitor,” read the executioner, “is sentenced to die the death of a thousand cuts.”

9 “Good question, Isabella. It’s when people decide to be judge, jury, and executioner without following any laws. People were hanged or shot or imprisoned, without ever getting a proper hearing!”

10 I said, “That’s right, ma’am, Five Forty-one is just waiting for the executioner to get home. Would you like to stick around and write down his last words?”

11 With the continued rise of crime and sporadic waves of punishment, the Superior Council felt obliged to engage a regular executioner or “l’exécuteur des hautes-oeuvres.”

12 And what about the Moon Door’s “elegance” as an executioner?

13 An executioner is not under orders.

行刑者没有接道命令。

14 “I saw something like that once,” said Farid, “so it’s all right for you to tell me about it. If the executioner is good with a sword it's all over quite fast.”

15 He is an executioner in Oldham, England, a desolate town near Manchester, in and around the day in 1965 when the death penalty for murder was banned in Britain.

16 I'm not your executioner. I'm not your devil and I'm not your God. I'm Charles Manson.

我不是你的刽子手. 我不是恶魔也不是你的神. 我只是查尔斯曼森.

17 At least one of the executioners for Creech's lethal injection previously was involved in Idaho's two most recent executions, in 2011 and 2012, Tewalt told the House committee.

18 “She went without the flicker of an eyelash. None of us understood how this could be possible. The executioner said he had never seen anyone meet his end as she did.”

19 Then I strike, coming down on her like an executioner.

20 He used to be an executioner for government.

他以前是政府的行刑人.

1 暗杀者

assassin

2 死刑执行人

tormentor tormenter

3 刽子手

header slaughter butcher headsman decapitator hangman headman

4 行刑人

hangman