Mutilation
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Mutilation or maiming is severe damage to the body that has a subsequent harmful effect on an individual's quality of life.
Police surgeon's drawing showing the mutilated body of Catherine Eddowes, Jack the Ripper's fourth canonical victim, as discovered on September 30, 1888
![Fredegund ordering the mutilation of Olericus[citation needed]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Un_pauvre_averti_Gontran_-_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9gonde_ordonne_la_mutilation_d%27Olericus.jpg/500px-Un_pauvre_averti_Gontran_-_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9gonde_ordonne_la_mutilation_d%27Olericus.jpg)
Fredegund ordering the mutilation of Olericus[citation needed]
Dismemberment
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Dismemberment is the act of completely disconnecting and removing the body parts such as limbs, skin, or organs from a living or dead being. It has been practiced upon human beings as a form of capita
Mutilation
…Michael H. Stone, Gary Brucato, and Ann Burgess proposed formal criteria by which "mutilation" might be systematically distinguished from the act of "dismemberment", as these terms are commonly used interchangeably. They suggested that dismemberment involves "the entire removal, by any means, of a large section…
15th-century depiction of Adoni-Bezek being mutilated
The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus by Dieric Bouts
Aztec stone disk depicting a dismembered Coyolxauhqui which was found during construction in 1978 in Mexico City. Its discovery led to the excavation of the Templo Mayor.
The execution of Sir Thomas Armstrong, who was hanged, drawn, and quartered in England for high treason in 1684