Posthumous execution

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

[1][2] If dismemberment stopped the possibility of the resurrection of an intact body, then a posthumous execution was an effective way of punishing a criminal.

Charles II later increased this to six ... Dissection was now a recognised punishment, a fate worse than death to be added to hanging for the worst offenders.

In 1752 an act was passed allowing dissection of all murderers as an alternative to hanging in chains.

This done, he proceeded to have it treated with every possible indignity, such as beating it with whips, sticking it with goads, and plucking its hairs... As the body had been embalmed and would not fall to pieces under the blows, Cambyses had it burned.