Executioner

An executioner was an individual employed to carry out a death sentence.

Jud Hacker was an executioner in the 14th century who later became a butcher. (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale)

In 1651, Sam Swift was meant to be executed by a hangman. (TV: The Woman Who Lived)

Tommy Dooley was an executioner in 1918. (AUDIO: The White Room)

Mulkris was an executioner, assigned by King Rokon to collect together fragments of Eldrad and place them in a stasis field. After discovering Rokon to be dead and Kastria barren, she elected to destroy them. (AUDIO: Eldrad Must Die!)

The Kandyman was employed by Helen A as an executioner. (TV: The Happiness Patrol)

Behind the scenes

• An executioner, played by John Cannon, was to have appeared among the human(oid) prisoners on the Time Lords' prison planet in Douglas Adams's uncompleted and never transmitted story Shada, but the scenes set inside Shada itself were never recorded.