How Much Does a Beheading Hurt and How Long Is a Severed Head Conscious After a Beheading?

Beheading hurts. How much it hurts depends on the executioner’s skill, or lack of it. When Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed at Fotheringay Castle in 1587, a clumsy headsman gave her three strokes without quite managing to sever her head.

The headsman then had to saw though the skin and gristle with his sheath knife before the job could be regarded as complete. The profound, protracted groan Mary gave when the ax first hit left the horrified witnesses in no doubt that her pain was excruciating. How long is the interval of consciousness after the head is severed?

In France, in the days of the guillotine, some of the condemned were asked to blink their eyes if they were still conscious after the knife fell. Reportedly, their heads blinked for up to 30 seconds after decapitation. How much of this was voluntary and how much due to reflex nerve action is speculation.

Most nations with science sophisticated enough to determine this question have long since abandoned decapitation as a ... more.

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