That doesn’t portray a hero, but rather someone so arrogant as to invent his own law and appoint himself its executioner.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2025
The executioner who initiates the flow of lethal chemicals into Tanzi's body then enters the room to begin the state's three-drug protocol — beginning with etomidate, an anesthetic, followed by rocuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium acetate, which will induce cardiac arrest.
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Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
PlayStation 5 Games Deals The Assassin's Creed franchise has been a staple in gaming consoles for nearly 20 years now, and Shadows, the latest iteration, furthers that tradition with a game that puts players behind Naoe, a shinobi assassin, and Yasuke, a legendary samurai.
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PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 July 2025
The details of how these would-be assassins got so close are still shrouded in mystery.
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Jenny Goldsberry,
The Washington Examiner,
10 July 2025
Several other leading figures of the period ended their days on the executioner’s block, including the unhappy Comte de Chalais, whose headsman bungled the job and ended up frantically chopping away at his screaming victim with a small hatchet.
The death penalty has just been abolished in the United Kingdom, and all the townspeople in Oldham want to know what the second-best hangman in the country has to say about it.
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Luann Gibbs,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
But since taking office, the president has been tightening up his definition of freedom like a hangman’s noose.
Being an executor of an estate is a huge task, and the role only gets more complicated as the estate size increases.
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Steve Hruby,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Getting precise information on assets may be helpful to fulfilling your obligations as a personal administrator (executor) or successor trustee under the deceased spouse’s revocable trust.
For now, at least, the answer is given clarity in the form of a curiosity-spiking club for serial killers.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
10 July 2025
The slasher universe began its feature journey in 2016 with Terrifier, but its leading serial killer appeared in several of Leone’s short films dating back to 2008.
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