Two new words for today

Both somewhat unsettling in their Latinate coolness in nameing dreadful things:

Lapidation:  stoning to death as a punishment.

Excarnation:  The funerary process of allowing animals or birds to strip the flesh from the corpse,  (It also means simply "removal of the flesh" but since a word was needed for the funeral process it was put to work.)

I like these because the Latin source is so easily seen as soon as the word is used:  She fled with her lover rather than risk lapidation.  Excarnation of the saint's body went on for many days.