Executioner
A judicial executioner is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority, which was known in feudal terminology as high justice.
Scope and job
The executioner was usually presented with a warrant authorizing or ordering him to execute the sentence. The warrant protects the executioner from the charge of murder. Common terms for executioners derived from forms of capital punishment—though they often also performed other physical punishments—include hangman (hanging) and headsman (beheading). In the military, the role of executioner was performed by a soldier, such as the provost. A common stereotype of an executioner is a hooded medieval or absolutist executioner.
While this task can be an occasional one, it can be carried out in the line of more general duty by an officer of the court, the police, prison staff, or even the military. A special case is the tradition of the Roman fustuarium, continued in forms of running the gauntlet, where the culprit receives his punishment from the hands of the comrades gravely harmed by his crime, e.g. for failing in vital sentinel duty or stealing from a ship's limited food supply.
Executioner (comics)
The Executioner is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Skurge, an Asgardian was originally depicted as a supervillain that wielded a magic double-bladed battle axe. Skurge fell in love with the Enchantress and was frequently used in schemes by her and the trickster god Loki. He was a long-time antagonist of Thor and other heroes of the Marvel universe and was a member of the original Masters of Evil. Eventually, he joined the heroes of Asgard in a mission to Hel, where he sacrificed his axe to destroy Naglfar, the ship of the dead, and delay Ragnarok, and sacrificed his life to hold the bridge at Gjallerbru so the heroes could escape the forces of Hel. After a time trapped in Hel, he joined the honored dead in Valhalla.
The name was later used by two other characters, an axe-wielding android member of the Crazy Gang and a vigilante named Daniel DuBois, the son of Princess Python.
Publication history
The Executioner first appeared in Journey into Mystery #103 (April, 1964), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Executioner (disambiguation)
An executioner is an officer of the court who carries out capital punishment sentences.
Executioner may also refer to:
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Executioner
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- Metal War Productions: Street Team Sampler released: 2008
Died: 2008-09-06
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- DIY or DIE released: 2000
- All for One... One for All released: 1995
DIY or DIE
Released 2000- Beer in the Shower
- The Burn Within
- Waste of Breath
- Life Supressed
- Black and Blue Collar
- The Bride is Burning
- Martyrs and Motherfuckers
- DIY or DIE
- Stinkpatch
- Ignorant
- To an End
- As All Eyes Squint in Perplexed Mendacity
- Anytown
- Fuck You to the Red, White and Blue
- Shit Talkers
- Paralyzed
- Bought and Sold
- Barriers
- Sea of Hate
- Victim of Society
- Victims of Evil
- The Prisoner
- Notion
- No Dick
- Mask and Glove
- The Law
- [unknown]
All for One... One for All
Released 1995- 57 Million People
- I Love to Shoplift
- Hellbound
- Arms Race
- Master Race
- Unscene Effort
- Human Jukebox
- I've Got a Gun
- Rejected Youth
- American Love Song
- Police State
- Yellow Streak
- In Control
- From What I See
- All Cut Up
- Power
- Experiment in Terror
- Neighborhood Watch
- Repressed Aggression
- Silent Strangers
- Take It
- Four Stations
- Mind Inertia
- Heavy Metal Suxx
- No Lesser of Evils
- Noise and Distortion
- I'm Trouble
- My Father's Son
- Trans Am
- Matas las chotas
- Zombie Youth
- Too Tense
- Deaf, Dumb and Blind
- Still the Same
- We Won't Be Controlled
- Punk Rock
- Dioxin
- Solid State
- Use Your Head
- Yer Child's War
- Misery
- No Accusations
- Tuntematon sotilas
- We Won't Go Down
- See Through Their Lies
- Laiskuutta
- Education
- God vs. Godzilla
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- Two From the Vault: Slowly We Rot / Cause of Death released: 2003
- Slowly We Rot released: 1989
- Demo 1987 released: 1987
- 1986 Demo released: 1986
- Metal Up Your Ass released: 1985
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Executioner
by: Robyn Hitchcockdon't wait up any longer
i'm not coming home
you know you're always stronger
when you're on you're own
you said the sweetest things
that's what you said
here's a relationship
with a gun to its head
i'm the executioner of love
our love has been found guilty
our love is turning bad
before i pass the sentence
have you anything to add?
it wasn't easy but
it wasn't fun
but when you start these things
see what you've done
you're the executioner of love
you're the executioner
your childhood is over
there's nowhere you can hide
there's nowhere you can hide
there's nowhere you can hide
it crawls towards you bleeding
begging for a kiss
even if you don't mean it
it's only just a kiss
i know how judas felt
but he got paid
i'm doing this for free
just like live aid
i'm the executioner of love
i'm the executioner of love
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