He was scheduled to be publicly executed last Friday, but his beheading was deferred.
FROM a corner of the room, Mr Darcy watched Elizabeth and her sisters work their way outward, beheading zombie after zombie as they went.
Find a pic of beheading in Ming dynasty to make a comparison,and see whether it's ghost Dao in Ming dynasty or not.
Well what it meant was that beheading was thought of as a quick and noble way to die, if the machinery of justice had decided that you had to die.
This is a very serious crime. In those days, the punishment was beheading — the convict was dragged out to a public place where everybody could watch and his head was chopped off with a big sword.
