Decapitation (from Latin, caput, capitis, meaning head) is the separation of the head from the body. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, knife, wire, or by other more sophisticated means such as a guillotine. Ritualistic decapitation after execution by some other means, sometimes followed by public display of the severe...
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People Who Died This Way:
- Gian-Carlo Coppola ,
- Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola ,
- Eugen Weidmann ,
- Edgar André ,
- Karl Ludwig Sand ,
- Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers ,
- Lamoral, Count of Egmont ,
- Conradin ,
- Henri de Talleyrand-Périgord, comte de Chalais ,
- Gonzalo Pizarro
