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Decapitation
(redirected from Beheadings)

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DECAPITATION, punishment. The punishment of putting a person to death by taking off his head.



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There have been reports of beheadings and even a modern-day crucifixion of a 14-year-old boy.
Daily news papers and TV news constantly scream desensitizing headlines of airport alerts, Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah, Taliban attacks fanned by radical Islamic cleric posturing (Koran: Sura 9:5, 5:33, 9:73, 8:59, 5:49) suicide bombings, beheadings and in rising crime rates; murder, rape, child abuse, graft, embezzlement, drug trafficking, commercial espionage, armed robberies, looting and muggings.
As is the case in the Middle East, kidnappings for ransom and beheadings were commonplace.
 
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