Assertion: decapitation | /r/HasProperty | usual means
Facets:
value: in germany
type: LOCATION
value: in nordic countries
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In Nordic countries, decapitation was the usual means of carrying out capital punishment.
text: Many German states had used a guillotine-like device known as a Fallbeil ("falling axe") since the 17th and 18th centuries, and decapitation by guillotine was the usual means of execution in Germany until the abolition of the death penalty in West Germany in 1949.