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Some incidents of garroting have involved a stick used to tighten the garrote; the Spanish name actually refers to that very 'rod', so it is a ''pars pro toto'' where the eponymous component may actually be absent. One of the reasons possession of a Nunchaku is illegal in many jurisdictions is that it can easily be employed as a garrote in some configurations.

  • In British criminal law, ''garrotte'' also was a defined type of violent robbery using at least physical threat against the victims. The imposition of a punishment comprising Flagellation in addition to Penal Servitude was successful in almost eliminating it in the 19th century.


  • The term especially refers to an Execution device which had been used by the Spaniards until the end of Francisco Franco 's dictatorship as recently as 1974 . Originally it was just a rope manually tightened around the neck until it causes death using a stick (called ''garrot'', a Provençal word) as a lever. Later it consisted of a seat to restrain the condemned person while the executioner tightened a metal band around his neck with a crank or a wheel. Some versions of this device incorporated a fixed metal Blade directed at the spinal cord, to hasten the breaking of the neck and hence kill the executee when he was no longer able to resist. It was already in use during the '' Conquista '' of Latin America, as attested by the execution of the Inca emperor Atahualpa .



A garotte can be made out of many different materials, including Rope s, Ty-rep s, fishing lines, Nylon and iron wires.

It was not abolished in the Philippines after that Spanish colony became American in 1898 .
At least four executions using this method were carried out in Puerto Rico after it became an American colony.



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