By the way they passed a sward of green, on which sundry little boys were engaged upon the lapidation of a lame duck.
"The Caxtons, Part 2"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Writing for the stage, a man would have risked lapidation by uttering a whisper in that direction.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
259. This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau's morbid suspicion.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley