Decapitation

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

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Over the last week, the jihadist rebels have posted multiple beheading videos, with most of them taking place near the the town of Sukayk in southern Idlib.
Jihadist rebels behead several Syrian soldiers in Idlib
He replied, grinning: "I remember looking at beheading videos from Chechnya this was playground stuff."
I want secret wife & three daughters to live in the UK; Brazen hope of thug 'grateful' for time as a terrorist exclusive: evil jihadi 'RINGO' IN HIS SYRIAN CELL
Abdullah Dimakuta was arrested on Thursday and had since been charged for the kidnapping and beheading of the victim, whom he did not identify, NBI Iligan chief Abdul Jamal Dimaporo said.
Suspect in beheading of man in Lanao nabbed
"It's a beheading of democracy, a beheading of a sacred symbol," Rodriguez (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/03/trump-beheads-the-statue-of-liberty-in-striking-magazine-cover-illustration/?utm_term=.b03471e19aa7) told the Washington Post of his latest cover .
Magazine Cover Depicts Trump Beheading Statue Of Liberty
BEIRUT: Future Movement leader Saad Hariri Thursday denounced the beheading of a young Palestinian boy in Syria earlier this week at the hands of U.S.-backed rebels.
Hariri decries beheading of 12-year-old boy
TEHRAN (FNA)- A Kurdish commander of the ISIL terrorist group, notorious for his rapid beheading of people, was killed in a small town on the Southern side of Mosul, security sources announced Saturday.
ISIL's Top Head-Chopper Killed in Clashes with Iraqi Army near Mosul
A source said: "The boy was executed by beheading in the centre of the city."
ISIS beheads boy for being pop music fan
And every single incident about some new operation of that Islamic group, such as the beheading of a Malaysian captive, is an affront not just to the government but to the nation as a whole.
Editorial: It's been 3 months since Samal kidnapping - shall we just wait?
But there has been no distinction made between beheading fighters in the conflict and civilians.
Were the wives of 'witchcraft' really first time Daesh beheaded women?
"The Islamic State group executed two women by beheading them in Deir Ezzor province, and this is the first time the Observatory has documented women being killed by the group in this manner," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
In 'first', IS beheads two women in Syria
The occultists took away his head after beheading him in his house to bury it in paddy fields," said, Jatru Kharia, a relative of Thepa.
Man killed to appease rain gods
He pointed out that "the elements of Daash, between now and then, execute citizens and civilians in alternative ways, the most prominent way is the beheading in front of citizens in central Mosul.
Daash Behead Two Brothers In Mosul

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