- decapitation, beheading - execution by cutting off the victim's head
--1 is a kind of execution, executing, capital punishment, death penalty
- decapitation, beheading - killing by cutting off the head
--2 is a kind of killing, kill, putting to death
- decapitate, behead - cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"
--1 is one way to kill
Sample sentence:
They want to behead the prisoners