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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SUPPLICIUM, civil law. A corporal punishment ordained by law; the punishment 
  of death, so called because it was customary to accompany the guilty man to 
  the place of execution and there offer supplications for him. 
  
  

















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