Wat (wie) is Behead - definitie
![King of [[Dahomey]] cuts off 127 heads to complete the ornament of his wall (1793).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adahoonzou-1793.jpg?width=200 "King of [[Dahomey]] cuts off 127 heads to complete the ornament of his wall (1793).")
![A fresco by [[Ambrogio Lorenzetti]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ambrogio Lorenzetti 005.jpg?width=200 "A fresco by [[Ambrogio Lorenzetti]]")
![French anarchist [[Auguste Vaillant]] just before being guillotined in 1894](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Auguste Vaillant execution.jpg?width=200 "French anarchist [[Auguste Vaillant]] just before being guillotined in 1894")
![Panel showing ballplayer being beheaded, [[Classic Veracruz culture]], Mexico](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BeheadingPanelSBCTajin.JPG?width=200 "Panel showing ballplayer being beheaded, [[Classic Veracruz culture]], Mexico")
![Cosmographia]]'' of [[Sebastian Münster]] (1488–1552), [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]], 1552](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Beheading Fac simile of a Miniature on Wood in the Cosmographie Universelle of Munster in folio Basle 1552.png?width=200 "Cosmographia]]'' of [[Sebastian Münster]] (1488–1552), [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]], 1552")
![Sgt. [[Leonard Siffleet]], an Australian [[POW]] captured in New Guinea, about to be beheaded by a Japanese soldier with a [[shin guntō]] sword, 1943](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Beheading of Leonard George Siffleet.jpg?width=200 "Sgt. [[Leonard Siffleet]], an Australian [[POW]] captured in New Guinea, about to be beheaded by a Japanese soldier with a [[shin guntō]] sword, 1943")
![Caishikou]], [[Beijing]], China, 1905](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Caishikou Beheaded Corpses2.jpeg?width=200 "Caishikou]], [[Beijing]], China, 1905")
![The beheading of the 15th Century Castilian Royal favorite, Don [[Álvaro de Luna]]. Painting by José María Rodríguez de Losada (1826–1896).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colecta para sepultar el cadáver de don Álvaro de Luna, por Rodríguez de Losada.jpg?width=200 "The beheading of the 15th Century Castilian Royal favorite, Don [[Álvaro de Luna]]. Painting by José María Rodríguez de Losada (1826–1896).")
![''The Beheading of [[Cosmas and Damian]]'', by [[Fra Angelico]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CosmasDamianfraangelico.jpg?width=200 "''The Beheading of [[Cosmas and Damian]]'', by [[Fra Angelico]]")
![Thomas Felton]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Froissart Chronicles, execution.jpg?width=200 "Thomas Felton]]")
![St. Barbara]]" by [[Giulio Quaglio the Younger]] (1721–1723)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giulio Quaglio the Younger - Obglavljenje sv. Barbare.jpg?width=200 "St. Barbara]]\" by [[Giulio Quaglio the Younger]] (1721–1723)")
![Aristocratic heads on pikes – a cartoon from the [[French Revolution]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heads on pikes.jpg?width=200 "Aristocratic heads on pikes – a cartoon from the [[French Revolution]]")
![pirates]] (namely [[Klein Henszlein]] and his crew) in [[Hamburg]], Germany, 10 September 1573](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hinrichtung.jpg?width=200 "pirates]] (namely [[Klein Henszlein]] and his crew) in [[Hamburg]], Germany, 10 September 1573")
![to stone]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Illustration of Perseus Delivering Medusa's Head.jpg?width=200 "to stone]]")
![Sino-Japanese War]] of 1894–95](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Illustration of the Decapitation of Violent Chinese Soldiers by Utagawa Kokunimasa 1894.png?width=200 "Sino-Japanese War]] of 1894–95")
![[[Odin]] finding [[Mímir]]'s beheaded body – an episode of [[Norse mythology]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oden vid Mims lik.jpg?width=200 "[[Odin]] finding [[Mímir]]'s beheaded body – an episode of [[Norse mythology]]")
![The [[Corleck Head]], Irish, 1st or 2nd century AD](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Testa in pietra con più facce, da corleck hill, co. di cavan, I-II secolo dc. 03.jpg?width=200 "The [[Corleck Head]], Irish, 1st or 2nd century AD")
![Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's ''[[The Triumph of Death]]'', 1562–1563](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thetriumphofdeath - detail.jpg?width=200 "Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's ''[[The Triumph of Death]]'', 1562–1563")
![Depiction of an [[Ethiopia]]n Emperor executing people, 18th century](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Traditional Ethiopian picture.jpg?width=200 "Depiction of an [[Ethiopia]]n Emperor executing people, 18th century")
Wikipedia
Decapitation or beheading is the total separation of the head from the body. Such an injury is invariably fatal to humans and most other animals, since it deprives the brain of oxygenated blood, while all other organs are deprived of the involuntary functions that are needed for the body to function.
The term beheading refers to the act of deliberately decapitating a person, either as a means of murder or as an execution; it may be performed with an axe, sword, knife, machete or by mechanical means such as a guillotine or chainsaw. An executioner who carries out executions by beheading is sometimes called a headsman. Accidental decapitation can be the result of an explosion, a car or industrial accident, improperly administered execution by hanging or other violent injury. Suicide by decapitation is rare but not unknown. The national laws of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Qatar permit beheading; however, in practice, Saudi Arabia is the only country that continues to behead its offenders regularly as a punishment for capital crimes.
Less commonly, decapitation can also refer to the removal of the head from a body that is already dead. This might be done to take the head as a trophy, for public display, to make the deceased more difficult to identify, for cryonics, or for other, more esoteric reasons.
