state militants have released photographs which appear to show the beheading of an ` alleged blasphemer ' the series of gruesome photographs show a man being led out of a van handcuffed and blindfolded before he is executed by a masked man , wielding a meat cleaver .
his beheading is believed to have taken place in hama in syria that each of the images are similar to videos released of british and american hostages who have also beheaded by the militants .