someone who is very cruel, who tormented and punished many without mercy, or someone who executed the penalty of a convicted person (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
miquiztequipane. verdugo, o sayon. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 57r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.