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Oliver Cromwell was disinterred in 1661 for a "posthumous execution." His decapitated head was passed around between collectors and museum owners until finally being re-buried in 1960.

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Lepa Radic was caught by Nazis in WWII and refused to snitch at her execution. She told them that "My comrades would reveal themselves when they avenge my death." At age 17, she was the youngest recipient of the posthumously issued Order of the People's Hero gallantry medal in Yugoslavia.

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1. Following the return of the English monarchy in 1660, a number of people posthumously found guilty of crimes during the civil war and interregnum were given a posthumous execution. Their remains were exhumed, they were hanged and beheaded and their bodies cast into a pit.

2. Posthumous execution was considered a proper punishment, because it was believed that dismemberment stopped the possibility of ressurrection as an intact body. In 897, Pope Formosus' corpse was put on trial and had three of his fingers cut.

3. After the restoration of the Monarchy, and 3 years after the death of Oliver Cromwell, his body was dug up, hung for a day, and then beheaded in a posthumous execution.

4. John Gordon was the last person executed by Rhode Island. During his trial, the instructions to the jury were "to give greater weight to Yankee witnesses than Irish witnesses." Mr. Gordon was posthumously pardoned in 2011.

5. Syndicate radio host Tom Joyner successfully obtained pardons for his wrongfully executed great-uncles, 94 years later. The case is believed to be the first posthumous pardon in South Carolina history.

6. After the death of John Wycliffe, a pioneer of the Protestant Reformation, he was ruled a heretic by the Roman Catholic Church and ordered to be posthumous executed. Wycliffe's corpse was exhumed and burnt and the ashes cast into the River Swift.

7. Harris Wittels is posthumously credited as Co-Executive Producer on Aziz Ansari's 'Master of None'