Recommended methods include decapitation (beheading) for small rodents or rabbits. The executions were brutal and consisted of beheading. Sheikh claimed responsibility for kidnapping and beheading Pearl in 2002. An executioner who carries out executions by beheading is sometimes called a headsman. The punishment can be fines, imprisonment, flogging, amputation, hanging, or beheading. There are few records of beheading or throwing executions. The punishment of beheading and quartering those executed for treason was abolished in 1870. Two of the hostages managed to escape after receiving persistent threats of beheading. He supported capital punishment but opposed hanging, preferring execution by firing squad or beheading. They are beheading civilians, including executing LGBT people. Humans have practiced capital punishment by beheading for millennia. Mundt is a serial killer whose "modus operandi" is beheading his victims. These images suggest the culture practiced ritual human beheading. The "Saracen" is a Saudi who becomes radicalised by watching his father's beheading. A beheading for sorcery occurred in 2014.