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


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During the hearing, legislators were shown video clips of some violent games such as Grand Theft Auto, Duke Nukem and Postal 2, in which the player shoots down random people on the street or in a church, sets them on fire and decapitates them.
In fact, the problem of multivalent meanings becomes the focus of the chapter on the Judith and her contradictory nature as heroine of liberty and threatening woman who decapitates her male victim.
The creature stalking the basements and tunnels beneath Chicago's Museum of Natural History in ``The Relic'' decapitates its prey and then eats choice parts of their brains.
 
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