United States
- For beheadings before 1776, see the European New World colonies section above
- At least 21 insurgent black slaves executed (1811) after the German Coast Uprising near New Orleans, Louisiana. Their heads were displayed on pikes and gates as a warning
- Isaac N. Ebey (1857) – Washington state pioneer murdered by Haida Indians
- Pearl Bryan (1896) – Murdered in Fort Thomas, Kentucky
- Tom Ketchum (1901) – accidentally decapitated in New Mexico Territory in botched hanging for train robbery
- Some victims of Danny Rolling
- Victims of Jeffrey Dahmer (1978–1991)
- Helmuth Koinigg (1974) – decapitated in racing car crash
- Boris Sagal (1981) – decapitated by helicopter
- Adam Walsh (1981) – decapitated by murderer
- Vic Morrow (1982) – decapitated by crashing helicopter
- Russell Phillips (1995) – decapitated in racing car crash
- Robert Lees (2004) – decapitated by murderer
- Aasiya Zubair (2009) – decapitated in New York state by murderer/husband Muzzammil Hassan
Read more about this topic: List Of People Who Were Beheaded
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“It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-day as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“The boys dressed themselves, hid their accoutrements, and went off grieving that there were no outlaws any more, and wondering what modern civilization could claim to have done to compensate for their loss. They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“As a Tax-Paying Citizen of the United States I am entitled to a voice in Governmental affairs.... Having paid this unlawful Tax under written Protest for forty years, I am entitled to receive from the Treasury of ‘Uncle Sam’ the full amount of both Principal and Interest.”
—Susan Pecker Fowler (1823–1911)