Decapitation

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

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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"Motif privilegie au jardin des supplices: Le mythe de la decollation et le decadentisme".
Cabezas degolladas parlantes: Judith o la cabeza de Holofernes, una version inedita de la Judith (1910), de Goy de Silva

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