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executioner, public executioner
an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
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eradicator, exterminator, terminator
someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
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choker, garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler
someone who kills by strangling
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liquidator, manslayer, murderer
a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
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poisoner
someone who kills with poison
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regicide
someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
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felo-de-se, suicide
a person who kills himself intentionally
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assassin, assassinator, bravo
a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
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butcher
a brutal indiscriminate murderer
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cutthroat
someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat
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electrocutioner
an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person
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fratricide
a person who murders their brother or sister
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gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman
a professional killer who uses a gun
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hangman
an executioner who hangs the condemned person
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hatchet man, iceman
a professional killer
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headman, headsman
an executioner who beheads the condemned person
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infanticide
a person who murders an infant
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mass murderer
a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident
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murderess
a woman murderer
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parricide
someone who kills his or her parent
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ripper
a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
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serial killer, serial murderer
someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval