Executioner
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An executioner, also known as a hangman or headsman, is an official who effects a sentence of capital punishment on a condemned person.
Symbolic robed figure of a medieval public executioner at Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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)
Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's The Triumph of Death 1562–1563
Stylised depiction of public execution of pirates in Hamburg, Germany, 10 September 1573
Elizabeth Sugrue
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Elizabeth Sugrue, also known as Lady Betty, was an Irish executioner.
Executioner
…these graveyards is part of the Eyüp Cemetery in Istanbul. The town of Roscommon has the distinction of having had Ireland's most notorious hangwoman, Lady Betty, who was given the post in exchange for her life being spared when the hangman due to execute her death sentence took ill on the day that she and 25…
Roscommon Gaol