[SunnySide]

"like they're drugging the victims into an OD, then doing surgery. I love to hear Dr. Baden's take on the photos."

I saw one photo on tv news of this recent victim with a towel or fabric already around his neck while he was still alive and talking. So I think these beheading victims are drugged and it is done in a more surgical manner to eliminate struggle, messy blood spill, slow down the heart rate. Remember arab men don't like to work, clean up their messes. There was plenty of blood on the victims body. Lets not get ridiculous with over analyzing a beheading for cryin out loud. The man is dead, he died an innocent man at the hands of inbred misogynys barbarians, PERIOD.

[ArmstedFragg]

Lets not get ridiculous with over analyzing a beheading

There is an advantage to analyzing when it reveals a common modus.

[wimpycat]

About 10 years ago I read a book called "Princess" (if I remember correctly) in which a member of the Saudi royal family (there are thousands of them) writes about her life in Saudi Arabia. Anyway, in the book she describes a public beheading...the judicial kind. The way she told it, the condemned person is drugged and bled before the beheading. They draw out a lot of blood, so that the person is severely weakened and lightheaded. The rationale is, according to her, so that there will be less blood at the actual beheading, and less ability for the condemned to make a fuss or resist.