And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.

The executioner brings his axe down, and the queen's severed head drops onto the ground.

According to this legend, as the executioner tried to carry out her father's orders, his axe shattered into a thousand pieces.

When an executioner was sent to strangle him at Yedikule, Constantinople, Osman II refused to give in and started fighting the man and was only subdued when he was hit on his back with the rear end of an axe by one of his imprisoners.

Another comment he is believed to have made to the executioner is that his beard was completely innocent of any crime, and did not deserve the axe ; he then positioned his beard so that it would not be harmed.

He placed a Mary dummy in the actor's place, restarted filming, and allowed the executioner to bring the axe down, severing the dummy's head.

His head was severed by one stroke of the executioner ’ s axe.

The executioner was Jack Ketch who made such a poor job of it that four axe blows were required before the head was separated from the body and, after the first stroke, Russell looked up and said to him " You dog, did I give you 10 guineas to use me so inhumanely?

Just as Anne, lays her head in the block, and the executioner raises the axe, she tries to persuade him to let her live.

The victim's head was bent forward, and the executioner fired slightly downward at point blank range.

Her executioner was " a wretched and blundering youth " who " literally hacked her head and shoulders to pieces ".

The executioner used a knife to cut the head from the body.

Upon laying his head on the block, he signalled the executioner by stretching his arms outwards.

It does, however, appear to cheer her up when it turns up suddenly at the Queen of Hearts ' croquet field, and when sentenced to death baffles everyone by having made its head appear without its body, sparking a massive argument between the executioner and the King and Queen of Hearts about whether something that does not have a body can indeed be beheaded.

* The executioner stands on a stepped platform approximately high beside the condemned, and guides the head downward with his hand simultaneous to the efforts of his assistants.

Deary argues that a story about a Tudor executioner who needs ten hacks to chop off someone's head, for example, can, however, afford to be comical as contemporary society is so far removed from the event.

The king had him beheaded, but when the executioner cut off his head, it is said that milk poured out instead of blood.

He was executed by his own executioner and his head sent to Khurasan.

The rope being appended to the gallows, he slipped the noose over his head and adjusted it to his neck, without the assistance of the awkward executioner.

According to a chronicle account, the use of a blunt sword was ordered, and the executioner needed 22 strokes to sever the earl's head from his body.

Tradition holds that his final words were said to the executioner, " Torment me not long, strike off my head in one blow ".

After a tense pause, the arm of the executioner rises from the cistern, offering the head to Rollo.

In reparation of which, we condemn him to make honorable amend, in smock, head bare and a rope around his neck, holding in his hands a burning candle of two pounds before the principal door of the royal church ... of Saint-Wulfram, where he will be taken in a tumbrel by the executioner who will attach before and behind him a sign on which will be written, in large letters impious one ; and there, being on his knees, will confess his crimes ...; this done, will have the tongue cut out and will then be taken in the said tumbrel to the public marketplace of this city to have his head cut off on a scaffold ; his body and his head will then be thrown on a pyre to be destroyed, burnt, reduced to ashes and these thrown to the wind.

In " Head ", he is head executioner for the Queen, a job that almost gets him killed when he executes a man two days early to get half the week off and then finds that the man's family had succeeded in having him pardoned.

Carrying al-Musta ' in's head to the Caliph, " Here ," cried the executioner, " behold thy cousin's head!

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

The executioner was usually a criminal who had to pass through a probation and regular training, being let off his own penalties in return for his services.

A combination of these stories is given by the French traveler Pouqueville, who writes that when the cord was thrown over his neck, Osman ' had the presence of mind to slip it with his hand, and knock down the principal executioner ; on which his grand vizier seized him by the most sensible part of his body, when Osman fainted with pain, and was strangled.

Her last words were " Pardon me sir, I meant not to do it ", to Henri Sanson the executioner, whose foot she had accidentally stepped on after climbing the scaffold.

The execution itself was a fiasco after the executioner refused to attend and Edmund of Kent had to be killed by a local dung-collector, who had been himself sentenced to death and was pardoned as a bribe to undertake the beheading.

The executioner, Charles Henri Sanson, testified that the former King had bravely met his fate.

The executioner had " pawned his guillotine, and got into woeful trouble for alleged trafficking in municipal property ".

" This was apparently a tribute to the famously macabre jest made by Henry's French-educated second wife, Anne Boleyn, who had joked before her death that the executioner would find killing her easy because she had " a little neck.

He then gave his forgiveness to the executioner and gave him what money he still had on his person, which was approximately ten pounds.

Its introduction into France was forbidden in 1779 ; the book was burned by the public executioner, and an order was given for the arrest of the author, whose name had not appeared in the first edition, but was printed on the title page of the Geneva edition of 1780.

He told me it was that God had not suffered him to be no more the executioner of His enemies.

") after the executioner had crushed his limbs with a sledgehammer or iron rod, followed by his ribs.

York had no permanent hangman, and it was the custom to pardon a prisoner on condition that he acted as executioner.

The office of executioner had traditionally been performed by the local sheriff, who increasingly delegated the task to a person of suitable character, employed and paid only when required.

He engaged his nephew as assistant executioner even though Pierrepoint had not yet observed a hanging in England and thus, despite being on the Home Office list of approved Assistant Executioners, was not allowed to officiate in England.

For his acting debut, Johnson was cast in the role of mute executioner Ilyn Payne, in both the first and second series of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, after the producers had seen him in Oil City Confidential.

Since executions in France ( using the guillotine since the French Revolution ) persisted until 1977, the French Republic had an official executioner, Marcel Chevalier, until the formal abolition in 1981.

The commander of the Uganda Air Force, Smuts Guweddeko, had previously worked as a telephone operator ; the unofficial executioner for the regime, Major Malyamungu, had formerly been a nightwatch officer.

His execution was ordered six weeks later after the Queen mother and his executioner, Ali Khan Farash-bashi, had convinced the King that Amir Kabir would soon be granted immunity by the Russians – possibly allowing him to make an attempt to regain control of the government with force.