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- Vlad the Impaler (1431–1476) was beheaded following his assassination.
- John Wycliffe (1328–1384) was burned as a heretic forty-five years after his death.
- 1290 – before 14 March 1321/1322) died following the Battle of Burton Bridge and was then posthumously executed for treason by Edward II.
- Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, died of wounds suffered at the Battle of Evesham in 1265 his corpse was beheaded, castrated and quartered by the knights of Henry III of England.
- Harold I Harefoot, king of the Anglo-Saxons (1035–1040), illegitimate son of Cnut, died in 1040 and his half-brother, Harthacanute, on succeeding him, had his body taken from its tomb and cast in a pen with animals.
- Found guilty, the corpse had three of its fingers cut and was later thrown into the Tiber.
- In 897, Pope Stephen VI had the corpse of Pope Formosus disinterred and put on trial during the Cadaver Synod.
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The rescue, or attempted rescue of the corpse was punishable by transportation for seven years. Dissection was described as "a further terror and peculiar Mark of Infamy" and "in no case whatsoever shall the body of any murderer be suffered to be buried".
The object of this and dissection was to deny a grave . This was a grisly fate, the tarred body being suspended in a cage until it fell to pieces. In 1752 an act was passed allowing dissection of all murderers as an alternative to hanging in chains. The dissections performed on hanged felons were public: indeed part of the punishment was the delivery from hangman to surgeons at the gallows following public execution, and later public exhibition of the open body itself . Dissection was now a recognised punishment, a fate worse than death to be added to hanging for the worst offenders. In England Henry VIII granted the annual right to the bodies of four hanged felons. If dismemberment stopped the possibility of the resurrection of an intact body, then a posthumous execution was an effective way of punishing a criminal. Some Christians believed that the resurrection of the dead on Judgment Day requires that the body be buried whole facing east so that the body could rise facing God.
It is typically performed to show that even in death, one cannot escape justice. Posthumous execution is the ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment. Ceremonial mutilation of a corpse as punishment