User blog comment:The Smiling Scum/Skyrim Allows You to Engage in Cannibalism/@comment-92.236.22.3-20111115173543/@comment-174.74.22.158-20120121233526

no you can decapitate the person, but it depends on when you swing the sword. there is a small window of time to engage that combat sequence, but i don't think that the head actually falls off, it just looks like you cut it off