Death by sawing is the act of sawing or cutting a living person in half, either sagittally, or transversely.
Sawing of three men, from a 15th-century print
An artistic rendering of the execution of Bhai Mati Das by the Mughals. This image is from a Sikh Ajaibghar near the towns of Mohali and Sirhind in Punjab, India.
Simon the Zealot or Simon the Canaanite or Simon the Canaanean was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus. A few pseudepigraphical writings were connected to him, but Jerome does not include him in De viris illustribus written between 392 and 393 AD.
St. Simon, by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1611), from his Twelve Apostles series at the Museo del Prado, Madrid
Saint Simon the Zealot with his attribute of a saw
James Tissot, Saint Simon, Brooklyn Museum
Statue of Saint Simon in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran by Francesco Moratti.