Editing Executioner (section)

{{Short description|Person who executes a sentence of death}}
{{Other uses}}
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{{Distinguish|Executor}}
[[File:Палач у экспозиции орудий пыток.jpg|thumb|right|Symbolic robed figure of a medieval public executioner at [[Peter and Paul Fortress]], [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia]]
[[File:The executioner.jpg|thumb|right|Photograph ([[Hand-colouring of photographs|hand-coloured]]), original dated 1898, of the lord high executioner of the former princely state of [[Rewa (princely state)|Rewah]], Central India, with large executioner's sword ([[Talwar|Tegha]] sword)]]
[[File:Thetriumphofdeath - detail.jpg|thumb|right|Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's ''[[The Triumph of Death]]'' 1562–1563]] 
[[File:Hinrichtung.jpg|thumb|right|Stylised depiction of public execution of pirates in [[Hamburg]], Germany, 10 September 1573]]

An '''executioner''', also known as a '''hangman''' or '''headsman''', is an official who effects a sentence of [[capital punishment]] on a [[Death sentence|condemned]] person.