Why is Facebook playing judge, jury, and executioner all in one fell swoop?

Surely he wasn't now going to be expected to play executioner as well?

But that doesn't stop this cowboy existentialist from playing judge, jury and executioner when he discovers two shotgunned and gutted horses buried in the dump at the Montana ranch where he works as a construction hand.

Aldon Morris, a sociology professor at Northwestern University, who is black, said the Ford Heights case appeared to be another incident of "the police playing executioner."

Fine, so I'll just play executioner and then gravedigger, why not?

He could not accept his lot as hard luck, or that fate chose him to play executioner.

"And you're still willing to play executioner?"

Roth and Nixon expose the truth on how the IRS operates and explain how they have become "Americas most feared Government agency," by playing police, judge, jury, and executioner.

Given the chance to disarm Cain, given the opportunity to merely wound him, he would nevertheless go for the head shot or the heart shot, play jury and executioner, play God, and leave to God the judgment of his stained soul.

Pym had steeled himself to play executioner to their imagined hill bully; the substitution of a mad grandmother as his victim had clearly given him pause.