Sentence examples for were beheaded with from inspiring English sources

As with Edward Despard and his confederates the three were drawn to the scaffold on sledges before being hanged for about an hour, and then on the insistence of the Prince Regent were beheaded with an axe.

Rats were beheaded with a guillotine-like instrument.

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

Four months later, Magnúsdóttir, Sigurdsson and Gudmundsdóttir were found guilty in a district court and sentenced to be beheaded, with Gudmundsdóttir's sentence later commuted.

The maid, Ruyati binti Sapubi, was beheaded with a sword on Saturday after confessing to murdering her boss.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently said that "disloyal" Arabs should be beheaded with an axe.

It's not clear whether al-Nimr was beheaded with a sword, though Saudis routinely use that form of execution.

Keep in mind, though, that Burmese pythons aren't garden snakes that can be beheaded with a shovel.

In one of the videos, two handcuffed men speaking Spanish admit to being narcotics smugglers before being beheaded with a chainsaw and a knife.

The martyr Munditia, the patron saint of spinsters, is posed in profile so visitors can't see how her voice was silenced when she reputedly was beheaded with an ax in the third century.

"A few people were beheaded, or strangled with metal wires, while others had their throats cut".