Bible Verses About Punishments: Beheading

Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead!”

So without delay, the king commanded that John’s head be brought in. He sent an executioner, who went and beheaded him in the prison.