Heading in the Right Direction?

Here's a story that I read:




For much of England’s, Scotland’s, and, after unification, the United Kingdom’s history, public beheading was a brutal but common method of executing those found guilty of treason. By the mid-18th century, though, the practice fell out of favor, likely because, again, it was brutal.


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