Sentence examples for first beheading from inspiring English sources

On Salman's third day as king, he oversaw his first beheading, of an alleged rapist.

"Welcome to Shanghai, Dick," the police detective hero of Tom Bradby's first novel is told, upon witnessing his first beheading.

Several politicians and officials have suggested Jihadi John's identity would soon be revealed since the first beheading, of Mr Foley, in August.

It was believed to be the first beheading by a child filmed by Isis, which has previously used minors to execute captives by shooting them.

It's certainly not the first beheading that IS has done.

Let's hope that when the Islamists next strike they first behead the appeasing cowards at CNN, MSNBC, etal who refused to show the cartoons.

It was the second beheading of a Buddhist this year in the largely Muslim south of this mostly Buddhist nation.

"It's been very interesting, with this second beheading, how very little of those images have been passed around," said Family Online Safety Institute CEO Stephen Balkam, who serves on Facebook's safety advisory board.

And there's a second beheading.

If anyone had believed King Salman would take a different tack, those hopes were quickly dispelled when, on Monday, the first public beheading took place under his reign.

Nevertheless, my junior high self viewed the first cinematic beheading at a seemingly placid abandoned construction site and I was down for the count.