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    The death penalty, or capital punishment, is when government authorities execute selective convicted criminals. Although, many countries have abolished the death penalty, the United States are still running with this form or punishment. Because of so many counties not seeing eye to eye with the red, white and blue, many debates have came up about the death penalty and if it should be dismissed. Adding to this debate, many Americans see the death penalty as being morally wrong and unethical. That…

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    ISIS Supporters Appear to Behead French Captive The French President today censured the obvious executing of a French mountain climber on account of Algerian activists, who promise their fidelity to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in another feature. The feature, which seemed online today, demonstrates a man who seems, by all accounts, to be 55-year-old Nice local Herve Gourdel stooping before a few furnished activists as an announcement is made by one of them in Arabic. Close to…

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    Decapitation is one of the most gruesome executions that have killed tens of thousands of victims dating back in the Medieval Times. Its primitive use of execution were adopted in Italy, Ireland and England, around the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, followed by France in the seventeen hundreds. Although the techniques and goals of decapitation are one and the same, they do not have the same title. Several known devices were called the scottish maiden, the italian mannaia, the halifax gibbet…

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    This device is perhaps one of the most primitive forms of the guillotine seen in the revolution. The maiden, along with the Halifax gibbet, a similar invention, gradually gained popularity, being used in places such as Italy and Switzerland during the 15th century. However, it was not until the 1700's that these machines were altered and improved to become the modern guillotine. Named for Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French doctor and member of the Revolutionary National Assembly, he believed that…

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    Julie delivers this tirade after Jean decapitates her pet canary, Serena. This speech is the most explosive manifestation of Julie's hatred of men. The backdrop for Serena's decapitation is the decapitation of Saint John the Baptist. In her fantasy, Julie makes Jean (French for "John") the victim, drowning his "entire sex." The double entendre of "sex" suggests that Julie wants to drown all men, and to drown Jean's sexuality. Strindberg is suggesting that as a "degenerate" woman, Julie is…

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    were both equally regenerated during the decapitation, the bottom part regenerated better during the oblique cut, and the top part regenerated better during the transverse cuts. The overall consensus from the experiment was that the bottom parts of planarian recovered better over two weeks when examining the cross sectional and oblique cuts, the top parts recovered better when examining the transverse cuts and both parts recovered equally during the decapitations. Whether planarian recovered…

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    to overpower and place control on this sow. Here, the significance of killing the sow is really seen. They are no longer slaughtering for food but because they have the desire to kill as well. Animal decapitation is not the only example of moral atavism shown throughout the book. Human decapitation towards Ralph and unnecessary violence are also major themes shown throughout the…

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    to North Korea paying little to no attention to these warnings, the United States is being pushed to closely analyze their options. Bowden suggests that in this case the options the United States is left with are prevention, turning the screws, decapitation, or acceptance. If the United States wanted to prevent the success of North Korea’s nuclear warfare program they would have to destroy Pyongyang’s weapons of mass destruction as well their military and take out its leadership.…

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    have been disturbed in the late 19th century during building works in the area, it does not appear to have affected the graves (Hunter-Mann 2015, p. 3, 6-7). A total of 82 individuals were excavated at the site with at least 46 showing signs of decapitation (Hunter-Mann 2015, p. 8).This cemetery is unusual because it contains the remains of almost all male skeletons with the exception of one female, and most of these remains show signs of severe trauma (Müldner et al. 2011; Hunter-Mann 2015)…

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    In La Guillotine it shows people getting executed by Decapitation. This was a quick and painless way for a person to be executed. There could have been worst torture methods used to execute people but decapitation was quick and easy. In the Triumph and Terror people set up watch committees to ferret out traitors of the revolution. This was used to stop the growth of the counter revolution…

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