But don’t forget, is is a religion of peace. It’s just the MILLIONS around the world who take it out of context and make it about violence.
There can be only one.
Highlander
But, seriously, while Mad Mo didn't invent beheading, his followers have made it ever more cruel.
Europe did the opposite. In Medieval England, for instance, beheading was a capital punishment reserved for nobility using a skillful axeman, as opposed to hanging which was reserved for commoners. The hangmen in those days lacked the knowledge or sophistication of the modern equivalent. Those hanged were stood on a cart which pulled out from under them, resulting in slow strangulation. The victims relatives and sometimes the executioners would often pull on the legs of the dangling victims to lessen their suffering and hasten their demise.
By the time Queen Elizabeth I took the throne of England, beheading had become so occasional that skilled axemen were in short supply, as recorded by the botched beheading of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots.
Even the French were horrified by the gore and possibility of suffering involved from using an unskilled axeman, as evidenced by their invention of the guillotine.
Fast forward to your modern Islamofacsists who delight in the suffering of their victims with their slow saw-off of the head methods which are recorded and broadcast for the enjoyment of their sick followers and the horror of the civilized world.
Long story short is that the civilized world performs rare executions in a manner to minimize suffering of the convict; jihadis do it to maximize the effect on people convicted of no more serious a crime than being insufficiently Islamic.