beheadings
Executions removing heads
Beheadings are acts of cutting off someone's head, typically as a method of execution or killing.
The word often appears in news coverage of violence by extremist groups or in historical contexts describing capital punishment: The medieval era saw public beheadings as spectacle.
Videos of beheadings spread online despite platform bans.
Severing head from body
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- executionerOne who kills condemned
- blockSolid mass, or impede
axe · sword · gallows · condemned · capital punishment · headsman · blade · public execution
Vertical beheading apparatus
- French RevolutionLate-1700s republican upheaval
- Tower of LondonMedieval riverside fortress
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
Anne Boleyn · Marie Antoinette · traitor · treason · monarch · royal · medieval · executioner
Suffering for conviction
- saintCanonized holy person
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- John the BaptistProphet who baptized the Messiah
Salome · relic · shrine · veneration · faith · apostle · early church · piety
Levantine jihadist organization
- hostageCaptive held as security
- videoRecorded moving imagery
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- journalistNews profession practitioner
kidnapping · extremist · militant · captive · orange jumpsuit · ransom · footage · victim
decapitation
Severing head from body
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- executionerOne who kills condemned
block · axe · sword · gallows · condemned · capital punishment · headsman · blade · public execution · death sentence
guillotine
Vertical beheading apparatus
- French RevolutionLate-1700s republican upheaval
- Tower of LondonMedieval riverside fortress
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
Anne Boleyn · Marie Antoinette · scaffold · traitor · treason · monarch · royal · medieval · executioner · public spectacle
martyrdom
Suffering for conviction
- saintCanonized holy person
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
John the Baptist · Salome · relic · shrine · veneration · faith · apostle · early church · piety · witness
ISIS
Levantine jihadist organization
- hostageCaptive held as security
- videoRecorded moving imagery
- propagandaBiased information for influence
journalist · kidnapping · extremist · militant · captive · orange jumpsuit · ransom · footage · victim · radicalization
ritual
Ceremonial set of actions
altar · priest · temple · Aztec · Maya · deity · blood · ceremony · religious rite · victim
- martyrdommartyrs, martyr, Christian martyrs, Catholic martyrs, Stephen
- Tudor EraHenry VIII, Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour
- LondonChelsea, Westminster, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Big Ben
- Christian persecutionNero, Colosseum, crucifixion, martyrdom, early church
- narcotraffickingdrug trafficking, drug cartels, drug lord, drug lords, narcos
beheadingsrescues
Frees from danger
lifesaving · resuscitations · pardons · life-saving · reprieves
beheadingspeace
Freedom from disturbance
nonviolence · reconciliation · healing · forgiveness · sanctuary
beheadingshangings
Suspended wall coverings
electrocutions · lethal injections · firing squads · crucifixions · stoning