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  • Example of Beheading, a Roman military punishment carried out by the use of a axe or sword
  • The beheading of Silvestre Budes. Coloured lithograph, 1845.
  • The beheading of the Duke of Suffolk. Engraving by G. Terry.
  • The beheading of Masout, Hermest, Murtij and Meus. Engraving with etching.
  • The beheading of King Charles I in Whitehall, 1649. Engraving with etching.
  • The beheading of James. Etching by W. Herbert after G.F. Barbieri (il Guercino).
  • The beheading of Charles I outside the Banqueting Hall of Whitehall in 1649. Engraving with etching.
  • The execution of slaves by means of beheading by the Bakuti, near Equator Station. Wood engraving.
  • The beheading of Christopher Love on Tower Hill, London, in 1651. Engraving with etching and letterpress.
  • Kowloon, Hong Kong: five pirates awaiting beheading, while Chinese soldiers and dignitaries line up behind. Photograph, 1891.
  • The beheading of the accomplices of the murderers of two British officers in Japan, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
  • The beheading of Shimazu-Seiji for the murder of two British officers in Japan, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
  • The beheading of Guillaume de Pommiers and his confessor in Bordeaux in 1377, by order of the King of England's Lieutenant. Aquatint.
  • Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria: a grandee riding on horseback with his attendants; the beheading of a criminal; the use of retractable roofs in houses. Engraving, 1777.
  • The beheading of Juan de Padilla and his associates in the market place of Villalar in 1521. Wood engraving by T.C. Capúz after A. Gisbert Pérez.
  • Various forms of mutilation and torture including scourging, beheading, burning, hanging, drowning, quartering, the cutting off of hands and ears, and the breaking on the rack. Woodcut.
  • The beheading of Lords Balmerino and Kilmarnock at Tower Hill, London, in 1746, attended by a large crowd; with portraits of four of the rebel lords. Etching with engraving.
  • A white man hides behind a make-shift shelter made from banana-leaves watching the beheading of a naked black man with a hatchet. Wood engraving by H.S. Melville.
  • The Earl of Strafford, going to his execution, stops to be blessed by Archbishop Laud; below, an executioner holds the head after the beheading in 1641. Line engraving with etching by J. Rogers after P. Delaroche.
  • A Ba-yanzi execution whereby the head of the victim is held in a contraption which on beheading will catapult the head in the air, leaving the rump tied to the ground. Coloured wood engraving after E.J. Glave and H. Ward.
  • A gentleman is about to be beheaded. Wood engraving by M. U. Sears.
  • A blindfolded young man is kneeling down about to be beheaded with a sword. Wood engraving.
  • A man about to be beheaded on a scaffold surrounded by a crowd of spectators. Line engraving with etching.
  • Madame Tiquet about to be beheaded for murder, 1699. Line engraving with etching by H.R. Cook, 1819, after G. Cruikshank.
  • A Chinese man kneeling on the ground is about to be beheaded with a sword. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A goat about to be beheaded as a Hindu ritual in honour of the goddess Kālī. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Lucrezia Cenci and Beatrice Cenci are beheaded in Rome: an executioner holds up the head of Beatrice, whose brother faints at the sight. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • A woman is beheaded on a wooden stage in a courtyard with a crowd of soldiers carrying halberds looking on. Engraving by J.C. Philips, 1726.
  • Executions of Huguenots after the Huguenot conspiracy of Amboise in 1560: some conspirators are hung by the neck from a tower, others are beheaded. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
  • Mass executions on a scaffold before a crowd of spectators: a group of people is hanged together from a gibbet, while others are beheaded, crucified and disembowelled. Engraving with etching, 16--.