"beheaded" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of cutting off someone's head, typically as a form of punishment or execution. For example: "The convict was beheaded for his crimes."
There is a duel, in which the knight is beheaded by Arthur's nephew, Sir Gawain; he then picks his head up, holds it aloft and promises that the two of them shall meet again.
One such piece is the pearl-drop earring that Charles I wore as he went to the executioner's block in 1649, coming with a convincing note of authentication from Queen Mary II, who wrote: "This pearle was taken out of ye King my grandfather's ear after he was beheaded & given ye Princess Royall" – referring to Charles's eldest daughter Mary, later Mary of Orange.
A man beheaded on Sunday was the 85th person this year whose execution was recorded by the official Saudi Press Agency, compared to 88 in the whole of 2014, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
A small label on one reads: NMA Ancestral Remains to be repatriated to Provenance (NSW) Tharawal Remains CRANIUM skull Age Adult Sex Male The skull belongs to Kanabygal, an Aboriginal warrior who died when troops shot and beheaded him in New South Wales in 1816.
The west started a bombing campaign after its citizens were beheaded last year in Iraq – the images of these crimes were intolerable.
Some residents recalled how Boko Haram had ambushed and beheaded two psychologists sent by the government to help the traumatised inhabitants.
Militants from Libya's Islamic State (Isis) affiliate abducted nine foreigners, including four Filipinos, in an attack on a central oilfield last week and beheaded eight Libyan guards, officials said on Monday.
Someone sent Adria a photograph of a beheaded woman with tape over her mouth.
One of my favourite caricatures by Charlie Hebdo was one featuring the prophet Muhammad being beheaded by an extremist.
A woman who was killed by a co-worker at a food distribution center in suburban Oklahoma City was beheaded, police said on Friday.
The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could be beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.
