Executioner

An executioner is an official who carries out a sentence of death on a legally condemned person.

Executioner Media

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  Symbolic robed figure of a medieval public executioner at Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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  Photograph (hand-coloured), original dated 1898, of the lord high executioner of the former princely state of Rewah, Central India, with large executioner's sword (Tegha sword)

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  Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's The Triumph of Death 1562–1563

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  Stylised depiction of public execution of pirates in Hamburg, Germany, 10 September 1573

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  Robed figure of a medieval public executioner at the Museum of Torture in San Marino

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  Robed figure of a medieval public executioner at the Museum of Torture, in Żywiec, Poland

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  Print of Execution of King Charles I of England 1649; the executioner is masked

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  17th century executioner's sword, Germany ca. 1600

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  High Court Executioner's sword with Christian epigram, ca. 1760 Salzburg, Austria, on display next to a Bishop's staff. The executioner's sword is designed as a cutting weapon rather than stabbing, forged of brass and iron.

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  19th-century Japanese executioner with sword and prisoner.