The word "behead" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate the act of cutting off the head of someone or something through the use of a sharp object, such as a guillotine or sword. Example sentence: The cruel ruler beheaded anyone who dared to oppose him.
In the Swat valley, he noted in March, "Fazlullah is going round every night broadcasting the names of people they're going to behead or have beheaded.
Two Melbourne teenagers planned to run down a Victorian police officer, behead him, take his weapon, then go on a violent rampage until they were both dead, a Melbourne court has heard.
Gordon said the jail term would not begin until Spanish authorities decided to send Heiss back to the UK and would run alongside any outstanding sentence for the murder of Liscano, whom he tried to behead during a brutal attack.
Last week, a man chased a Muslim American woman into oncoming traffic in Brooklyn while threatening to behead her.
Militants sometimes behead victims and set bodies ablaze.
The driver has now been released, but the Iraqi insurgents promptly claimed to have kidnapped six more foreign drivers, and threatened to behead one every 72 hours.Goh Chok Tong will stand down as prime minister of Singapore on August 12th, after 14 years.
But Mr Zawahiri also advised Zarqawi, who was known as "Sheikh of the Slaughterers" because he liked to behead enemies, to go easy on the bloodletting because it was putting off ordinary Muslims.Al-Qaeda had initially been welcomed as a champion of the Sunni cause against the Americans and the Shia.
In Canada, a group of Muslim citizens said to have planned to attack Parliament and behead the prime minister are also awaiting trial.Western security officials say the revitalisation of al-Qaeda is partly due to the fact that "the pressure is off" in North Waziristan, a Pakistani tribal region where the army agreed a ceasefire with militants last September.
In June police in Toronto arrested a dozen Canadian Muslims for planning attacks, including, it is said, a plan to seize and behead the prime minister.To many susceptible Muslims the message that the faith is everywhere under attack is evidently compelling.
Citing both the Koran and classical Arabic poetry, he has urged his people on to jihad, to "behead the invaders" and "cut off their hands".
And, on September 18th, police in Sydney and Brisbane rallied in Australia's biggest anti-terrorism raid: foiling an apparent plot to behead a member of the public, selected at random, in Sydney.
