The simple idea is kill the brain, stop the zombie. This is generally done through head trauma or decapitation. But any method that removes the zombie-brain's ability to direct the undead body will work.
From Neolithic times, across Europe and North America, sites of mass burials show unmistakable signs of violence: skulls with stone-axe injuries, arrowheads lodged in vertebrae and decapitations.
Jeffrey Henry faces charges including second degree murder in the accidental decapitation of a 10-year-old boy on the world's tallest water slide in Kansas city back in 2016.
Weird game, we know, but this was back before cell phones and playstation, just a bunch of people, living in the moment, challenging each other to decapitation contests.