Mr Caillabet said that according to Buddhist beliefs, this method was more humane than hitting the snakes or beheading them.

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It is traditionally prepared by beheading and gutting the shark and then burying the carcass in a shallow pit covered with gravelly sand.

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The man accused of beheading a British grandmother in Tenerife had been treated in a psychiatric unit in north Wales, it has emerged.

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You can tell the world is calm when the biggest summer scare that Hollywood can conjure is an asteroid beheading the Chrysler Building.

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Scene to many a beheading and imprisonment, it is little wonder that the Tower of London is considered one of the spookiest buildings in Britain.

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The court was also told that in her police interviews Miss Begum only mentioned the beheading tape, which Mr Findlay told the court had been shown on Sky TV.

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Some may even relish the fate of the original Damian, a third century saint who was hung on a cross, stoned and shot by arrows and finally suffered execution by beheading.

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And now this turn of events in Pakistan: The man convicted of beheading Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is planning to use Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession to appeal his own death sentence.

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