Posthumous execution is the ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment.
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“Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.”
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