Posthumous Execution

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

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Famous quotes containing the words posthumous and/or execution:

    “One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.”
    —Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

    “It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is less need of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.”
    —Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)