Swordsman.
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I always thought a swordsman was a soldier, who proved his mettle in combat against other swordsmen, not just an executioner of a bound, helpless human being.
And doesn’t the Saudi executioner require an assistant to poke the condemned with a pointed stick to cause him/her to involuntarily straighten up & expose their neck to a better cutting angle?
Some “swordsman”, indeed.