Crucifixion

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.

II. Crucifixion ·noun The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.

III. Crucifixion ·noun The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.