article_snippet.sent: Reports of beheadings also emerge from Saudi Arabia, where it is a legal method of execution under the country's judicial code; and Mexico and Brazil, where it is typically the work of criminal gangs.
article_snippet.sent: In December and January, two victims were decapitated -- outside a Florida home, and in a shopping mall in China's Shaanxi province -- in crimes with no apparent connection to terror.
article_snippet.sent: In London alone, a city deeply impacted by the murder and attempted decapitation of soldier Lee Rigby by Islamic extremists in 2013, three women were reportedly beheaded last year in alleged crimes with no apparent jihadist motivation.
article_snippet.sent: And in the United States, an Oklahoma man is awaiting trial, accused of beheading a co-worker in September.
article_snippet.sent: In Australia and the Philippines, jihad-related threats or plots to decapitate have allegedly been made in the past seven months; recently, a Muslim convert in London was found guilty of a plot to behead a British soldier, inspired by the Rigby murder.
article_snippet.sent: The theme of beheading was also front and center in an incident in Belgium in January, where fans of football team Standard Liege unfurled a giant banner depicting the severed head of an opponent.
article_snippet.sent: The club condemned their actions as "totally unacceptable.
article_snippet.sent: In the U.S., a Michigan man was arrested in January for threatening to decapitate the New York police officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal choke hold, which triggered widespread civil rights protests.
article_snippet.sent: And months earlier, in October, police reportedly received a threat to behead elementary school students in Rhode Island.