2 Kings 10:8
When a messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Put them in two heaps at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”
Deuteronomy 21:23
his body shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall most certainly bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is cursed by God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.
2 Samuel 11:18-21
Then Joab sent word and informed David of all the events of the war.
1 Kings 21:14
Then they sent word to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned to death.”
Mark 6:28
and brought back his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.