decapitation

Why stop at mere decapitation when a whole body can be halved from bottom to top?

Shimshoni, the retired Israeli general, added that with an adversary like Hezbollah, that is motivated, ideological and religious, decapitation strikes will have little strategic significance.

Dubray’s mediocre statue had already been beheaded three decades ago — a symbolic decapitation that couldn’t help but recall Marie-Antoinette’s actual fate at the guillotine.

In a statement in August, the medical centre denied the accusations and said the "unfortunate infant death occurred in utero prior to the delivery and decapitation".

Warwick calls decapitation a “brutally cruel” method, and he thinks it’s unlikely that civilian hunters routinely pith the snakes’ brains.