The Really Tall Islands need somebody. We have all sorts of revolutionaries running around forming "merchants' leagues" and whatnot, and a well-practiced executioner would be a fine replacement in the business, considering that right now we're using the General Commander of the Really Tall Island Home Army, and he enjoys watching wolverine fights rather than performing hangings, guillotinings, stonings, deflagrations, burnings, axe swingings, maulings by bears, and launching angry badgers at sentenced persons. He has the request of still being allowed to perform the ferret releasings, however. He enjoys those.
Edit: For the curious: Each of those executions is a part of Really Tall Island law. They are typically carried out by the head of the Home Army, considering that the terrain of the islands makes a conventional army less than useless for both sides. We prefer to defend ourselves using the War Ferret Regiments. Vicious monsters, they could make an undead paladin run away in fear. Needless to say, they are a very bad deal for you in your pants. And that is why you do not want to be found guilty of breaking any of His Elected Majesty King Baron Aqizzar the Great's laws while on the Really Tall Islands.