garroting
Killing by ligature
Garroting is killing or attacking someone by strangulation, typically with a wire, cord, or metal collar tightened around the throat.
The method has been used for assassination and execution.
The spelling garroting alternates with garrotting.
The prisoner was executed by garroting.
Compressing throat to suffocate
- asphyxiationDeath from oxygen loss
- suffocationFatal lack of air
- airwayPassage for breath
- compressionForcing into smaller space
ligature · cord · wire · constriction · breathless · hypoxia · assassination · ambush
Execution by legal authority
- death penaltyLegal execution for crimes
- executionerOne who kills condemned
- condemnedOfficially declared unfit
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
judicial execution · strangling · Spanish Inquisition · iron collar · execution · sentenced · prisoner · medieval
strangling
Compressing throat to suffocate
- asphyxiationDeath from oxygen loss
- suffocationFatal lack of air
- airwayPassage for breath
compression · ligature · cord · wire · constriction · breathless · hypoxia · assassination · ambush
capital punishment
Execution by legal authority
- death penaltyLegal execution for crimes
- executionerOne who kills condemned
- condemnedOfficially declared unfit
scaffold · judicial execution · strangling · Spanish Inquisition · iron collar · execution · sentenced · prisoner · medieval · torture
- historical crimehighway robbery, pickpocketing, burglary, arson, piracy
- asphyxiationsuffocation, suffocate, asphyxia, smother, smothering
- executionsexecution, execution chamber, hanging, guillotine, executioner
- punishmentsjail, prison, timeout, grounded, fine
garrotingstabbing
Wounding with a blade
shooting · poisoning · drowning · bludgeoning · decapitation
garrotingresuscitating
Restoring consciousness or breathing
reviving · saving · rescuing · healing · life-saving
choking, strangle, throttle, throttled, strangled, strangler, garrote, strangulation, throttling