as the decapitation escapes the image, the representations go so far as to make it impossible; this goes from decapity, which does not die, to the action of beapitation for whom neither time nor space is available to take place. However, even if it is felt only a posteriori, once the head has been sliced, it has obviously taken place. When capital punishment, of which death by beapitation is a method, is a tool of power, its political use implies...