JDiver

I'm not sure how the form of death affects it - dead is dead, even if you call it muerto.

Fortunately, beheadings are clear indicators of inter-gang rivalry (and I am not sure that's entirely a bad thing). There were six beheadings on one day last year in my original home town - but hundreds of thousands of Mexico City folk go there every weekend anyway, and it hasn't much affected the legitimate citizenry or tourists, or even the many students who live locally a while to attend colleges and universities - only the members of the other gang who were killed and brought into town to put on display as a "keep out" warning.

We just had a five man shoot out (at least one dead) at an upscale shopping center in a gang-related meth sale two miles from where I live in California now.