Sentence examples for beheaded with from inspiring English sources

Henry commuted Anne's sentence from burning to beheading, and rather than have a queen beheaded with the common axe, he brought an expert swordsman from Saint-Omer in France, to perform the execution.

Thirty-six knights of the Garter have been beheaded, with Henry VIII alone accounting for six.

Alleged spies for the transitional government or for Ethiopia are routinely beheaded with blunt knives.

Three days later a woman accused of murder was dragged through the streets of Mecca and beheaded with a sword.

She had seen her husband beheaded with a machete; her baby daughter had been torn from her breast.

Then they are simultaneously beheaded with the theatrical brutality that has become the trademark of Islamic State extremists.

A leading figure with Isis's police force was recently found in  Deir-al-Zor beheaded and with a cigarette in his mouth, with the sentence "O Sheikh this is munkar (hateful and evil thing)" written on his body.

The disk included footage of two men being beheaded, one with a knife, the other with a chain saw.

He beheaded flowers with his stick.

Once he fell into a drunken sleep, Judith beheaded him with his own sword.

I saw two of my closest friends beheaded, children with their eyes gouged out and other, terrible things".