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An executioner is an officer of the court who carries out capital punishment sentences.

Executioner may also refer to:

• "The Executioner", a painting by 17th-century Spanish Tenebrist painter Jusepe de Ribera

Literature

Comics

• Executioner (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain

Novels

• The Executioners (Moore novel), a 1951 novel by Brian Moore
• The Executioners (MacDonald novel), a 1957 novel by John D. MacDonald
• The Executioner ( French: Le Bourreau), a 1961 novel by Pierre Boulle
• The Executioners, a 1967 novel by John Creasey
• The Executioner (book series), a series of novels running since 1969 featuring the character Mack Bolan
• The Executioners (Killmaster novel), a 1971 novel by Nick Carter
• Executioner, a 2002 World of Darkness novel by Gherbod Fleming, the sixth volume in the Predator & Prey series, spun off from the tabletop game Hunter: The Reckoning
• The Executioner (Kisyov novel), a 2003 novel by Stefan Kisyov about the killer of Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov

Film and television

• Executioners (film), a 1993 film by Johnny To
• The Executioner (1963 film) or El verdugo, a Luis García Berlanga film
• The Executioner (1970 film) a film directed by Sam Wanamaker starring George Peppard
• The Executioner (1975 film), a 1975 South Korean film
• Executioner (1974 film), a 1974 film starring Sonny Chiba
• The Executioner, a 1978 film also known as Massacre Mafia Style
• "The Executioners", first episode of the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Chase
• The Executioner (TV series) a 2015 television drama produced by TVB
• "The Executioner" (Gotham), an episode in the third season of Gotham
• Permission to Kill, a 1975 film also known as The Executioner

Sports

• The Executioners (professional wrestling), the name of several WWE tag teams
• Buddy Rose or The Executioner, American wrestler
• Terry Gordy or The Executioner, wrestler
• Bernard Hopkins or The Executioner, American boxer

Music

• Executioner (album), a 2009 album by Mantic Ritual
• Executioner (band), a thrash metal band from Boston
• The X-Ecutioners, American turntablist group

See also

• Executor (disambiguation)

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