At first it was intended that decapitation should be by the sword, but on account of a memorandum by M.
Lovat, Lord, Decapitation of, and George Selwyn, I.
The price of contumacy was outlawry, and decapitation between the two columns.
The death sentence was generally carried out by decapitation or hanging from the columns of the palace or between the red columns in the Piazzetta.
The decapitation and dismemberment, the bestowal of the remains in various parts of the town, the preservation of the head in spirits of wine, in the hope that the features might some day be recognized, were alike in both.
But the medical evidence was clear that the decapitation had been effected during life, and the jury, after a short deliberation, without hesitation brought in a verdict of wilful murder.
Though the Roman-Dutch modes of executing the sentence by decapitation or breaking on the wheel have not been formally abolished, in practice the sentence in the Cape Colony is executed by hanging.
Death has been and still is most generally inflicted by decapitation and strangulation.
Barely fourteen seconds elapse, it is said, from the time the convict steps on the scaffold to the moment when decapitation is effected.
Allowances are certainly to be made for him; he had seen no government but the old Turkish regime, and had no notion of any other way of governing but by decapitation and confiscation.
He was caught and court-martialed and forced to witness the decapitation of his best friend who had tried to help him.
The recollection of that morning in the town of Hamm, when news had reached him of the decapitation of his brother, remained a constant warning of what might happen to those kings who did not read the signs of the times aright.
This unfortunate woman had attempted suicide by self-decapitation from behind forward.
One evening after Dennison had gone, we held a kind of political meeting about it, at which all possible and impossible methods of decapitation were suggested as the ones to which Mrs. D.
An official will threaten his servant with instant decapitation for a trifling offence, meaning nothing whatever thereby.
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin had tried to impress on the Assembly the need of humane modes of execution, and had dwelt on the comfort of decapitation by his apparatus until he was laughed down.
On that day a clause in the new penal code made death by decapitation the only method of execution, and the committee had powers to construct the apparatus, which was to supersede Sanson's sword.
Each time the Court moves from the Summer to the Winter Palace, along the whole length of the road each door and shutter is heavily closed, and the punishment of decapitation hangs over anybody discovered gazing at her.
Type of Executioner in theDecapitation of John the Baptist (Thirteenth Century).
Decapitation of Guillaume de Pommiers and his Confessor at Bordeaux in 1377 ("Chroniques de Froissart").
Originally, decapitation was indiscriminately inflicted on all criminals condemned to death; at a later period, however, it became the particular privilege of the nobility, who submitted to it without any feeling of degradation.
In certain countriesdecapitation was performed with an axe; but in France, it was carried out usually by means of a two-handed sword or glave of justice, which was furnished to the executioner for that purpose (Fig.
Out of consideration for his family, the sentence of death passed upon him was carried out by decapitationon the battlements of St. Angelo.
In the Chinese empire decapitation is the usual mode of execution.
The man had but one idea of death, and the same may be said of these primitive people, who look upon decapitation as the easiest termination to a half-starved life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decapitation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
