Discipline and Punish
The "amende honorable" was sometimes incorporated into a larger ritual of capital punishment (specifically the French version of drawing and quartering) for parricides and regicides; this is described in the 1975 book "Discipline and Punish" by Michel Foucault, notably in reference to Robert-François Damiens who was condemned to make the "amende honorable" before the main door of the Church of Paris in 1757.