<P> Nordlund's execution was the last (legal) manual beheading in the Western world except for in Germany, where it prevailed until the days of World War II (see above). </P> <P> The official beheading axe of Finland resides today in the Museum of Crime, Vantaa . </P> <P> In Spain executions were carried out by various methods including strangulation by the garrotte . In the 16th and 17th centuries, noblemen were sometimes executed by means of beheading . Examples include Anthony van Stralen, Lord of Merksem, Lamoral, Count of Egmont and Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn . They were tied to a chair on a scaffold . The executioner used a knife to cut the head from the body . It was considered to be a more honourable death if the executioner started with cutting the throat . </P> <P> Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Ignacio Allende, José Mariano Jiménez and Juan Aldama were tried for treason, executed by firing squad and beheaded during the Mexican independence in 1811 . Their heads were on display on the four corners of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas, in Guanajuato . </P>

Which of the following latin roots means to cut off