It seems that in some places it's ok to cut his head off.
Science could debunk any religion but people still "choose" to believe.
Religion is all about control.
Religion isn't the problem, ignorance, hatred and extremism is the problem. Most people in the world, be they Christian, Muslim, atheist or other, would never condone what those nutcases did.
+1
Sadistic psychopathic extremism also occurs in non-religious contexts.
I have to say that, more and more, I've come to associate religion with "the hee-bee-gee-bees" and my natural reaction is to run a mile from anyone with a religious message to impart to me.
+1. Especially if it's a 76 year old virgin who wears a frock and thinks his bread and wine are haunted.
It's a long time since and Christians saw beheading as a suitable punishment for anything. I'm not sure if they ever condoned cutting the head off a 10 year old boy of their own faith, not even in the darkest parts of the middle ages.
Didnt they burn them at the stake instead?
The Spanish Inquisition routinely tortured children and aged persons, but not as punishment. It was in order to get them to confess to heresy.
Execution of heretics was public. If the condemned repented, they were shown mercy by being garroted before burning; if not, they were burned alive.
There was a young woman burned to death in Papua New Guinea in February of this year for witchcraft so it's still going on around the world.
I believe another (late teenager) just beheaded her own father for raping her.
Justified