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  2. Decapitation - Wikipedia

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    Decapitation is the total separation of the head from the body. Such an injury is invariably fatal to humans and most other animals, since it deprives the brain of ...

  3. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Decapitation was the method of execution prescribed for more serious crimes such as treason and sedition. Despite the great discomfort involved, most of the Tang Chinese preferred strangulation to decapitation, as a result of the traditional Tang Chinese belief that the body is a gift from the parents and that it is, therefore, disrespectful to ...

  4. Atlanto-occipital dislocation - Wikipedia

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    Atlanto-occipital dislocation, orthopedic decapitation, or internal decapitation describes ligamentous separation of the spinal column from the skull base. It is possible for a human to survive such an injury; however, 70% of cases result in immediate death .

  5. Decimation (punishment) - Wikipedia

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    G.R. Watson notes that "its appeal was to those obsessed with nimio amore antiqui moris" – that is, an excessive love for ancient customs – and notes, "Decimation itself, however, was ultimately doomed, for though the army might be prepared to assist in the execution of innocent slaves, professional soldiers could hardly be expected to ...

  6. Decapitation (military strategy) - Wikipedia

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    Decapitation is a military strategy aimed at removing the leadership or command and control of a hostile government or group. [1] [2] In nuclear warfare

  7. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.

  8. Garrote - Wikipedia

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    A 1901 execution at the old Bilibid Prison, Manila, Philippines. A garrote (/ ɡ ə ˈ r ɒ t, ɡ ə ˈ r oʊ t / gə-RO(H)T; alternatively spelled as garotte and similar variants) [1] or garrote vil (Spanish: [ɡaˈrote ˈβil]) is a weapon and a method of capital punishment.

  9. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    The execution method is associated with counterfeits (by pouring down the neck) or traitors (by pouring on the head). [6] Brazen bull. The victim was put inside an iron bull statue and then cooked alive after a fire was lit under it (of disputed historicity). Crushing: By a weight, abruptly or as a slow ordeal.