| The main character is a professional executioner, but he prefers to get drunk rather than perform his civic duties. |
| He struggled as a man condemned to death struggles in the hands of the executioner, knowing that he cannot save himself. |
| The executioner was beheaded outside the pub by Royalists and had his head placed on a pike outside as a warning to other rebels. |
| You'd make a good psychologist, executioner, black widow, arsenic poisoner, heretic queen or commentator. |
| It would neither distress the condemned person, nor the executioner on the other side as he pulled the trigger. |
| The executioner shook the condemned man's hands, removed the steps and the platform dropped back on its hinges. |
