English-Swedish translations for beheading

• halshuggning en
  Spöstraff är ett relativt milt straff jämfört med vissa andra ytterst brutala metoder för bestraffning som används i en del muslimska länder, bland annat amputation, stening och halshuggning.Indeed, caning is a relatively mild punishment compared to some of the other extremely brutal methods of punishment used in some Muslim countries, including amputation, lapidation and beheading.

Definition of beheading

• An instance of a person being beheaded

Examples

• A large crowd gathered to see the beheading.
• The guillotine was meant to humanize beheadings, but allowed the French Revolution to execute people at an industrial rate.

Related words

• behead
• beheaded
• beheader
• to behead