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posthumous execution

n. The ritual desecration of the body of a dead person.

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Posthumous execution

Posthumous execution is the ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment.

Usage examples of "posthumous execution".

News of the posthumous execution of Alderman Berry, whom he remembered as an incorrigible hand-shaker and tops for humility among the highly competitive penitents of the New Zion Brotherhood, had put him in an even better humour than usual.

He conceived a horror, be she what she might, of her remains being profaned by the outrage of a posthumous execution.