He was the public executioner appointed by M to represent the community.
But I do not like the public executioner being turned into the private executioner.
Did I not sentence you to stand in the market-place and have your head struck off by the public executioner at three o'clock?
A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner.
Antoninus (died 186) was a public executioner in Rome.
"But you can't go around acting like a public executioner."
Here, in 1762, the public executioner burned Rousseau's provocative educational treatise "Emile."
Leave him to the public executioner?
His book was burned by the public executioner.
The sentence was posted by the public executioner between the sentences of two public malefactors.