A garrote or garrote vil (a Spanish word; alternative spellings include garotte and garrotte) is a weapon, most often referring to a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire or fishing line used to strangle a person.
Assassination weapon
A garrote can be made out of many different materials, including ropes, cable ties, fishing lines, nylon, guitar strings, telephone cord or piano wire.
A stick may be used to tighten the garrote; the Spanish word actually refers to the stick itself, so it is a pars pro toto where the eponymous component may actually be absent. In Spanish, the term may also refer to a rope and stick used to constrict a limb as a torture device.
Since World War II, the garrote has been regularly employed as a weapon by soldiers as a silent means of eliminating sentries and other enemy personnel. Instruction in the use of purpose-built and improvised garrottes is included in the training of many elite military units and special forces. A typical military garrote consists of two wooden handles attached to a length of flexible wire; the wire is looped over a sentry's head and pulled taut in one motion. Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion have used a particular type of double-loop garrote (referred to as la loupe), where a double coil of rope or cord is dropped around a victim's neck and then pulled taut. Even if the victim pulls on one of the coils, he only succeeds in tightening the other.
You can watch whole movie on spanish here: https://www.cclm.cl/cineteca-online/el-inquisidor/
published: 15 Oct 2022
The Garrote - History's Most BRUTAL Execution Method?
Throughout History there have been many different execution methods used to take the lives of prisoners. The French even invented the Guillotine to kill as many criminals as quickly as possible, but there was one weapon which was considered primitive which was used to take lives. The Garrote in its most simple form is a piece of wire that was used to strangle someone, and it was used during the First World War, Second World War and other conflicts to silence an enemy. But the Garrote was used as an execution method and in front of large crowds, a condemned person would be strangled to death. It was the Spanish who became infamous for their use of the execution method, but there were also Garrote devices and machines used.
With these machines, a victim would be secured to it with chains an...
published: 15 Jun 2022
Death Penalty in Spain (20th Century): Execution by "Garrote"
Clip from the 1991 film "El crimen de las estanqueras de Sevilla":
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_huella_del_crimen#El_crimen_de_las_estanqueras_de_Sevilla
Available for free in streaming by RTVE (with spanish subtitles):
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/la-huella-del-crimen/huella-del-crimen-crimen-estanqueras-sevilla/4148618/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_use_of_capital_punishment_in_Spain
published: 07 Aug 2017
MUERTE DEL ANARQUISTA SALVADOR PUIG ANTICH POR GARROTE VIL
published: 02 Mar 2014
Tribes and Empires: Storm of Prophecy - female execution by garrote
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published: 13 Nov 2020
Garrote scene from unknown movie
i found this clip on youtube called Garroting of fromm Maria. i tried to post a question there asking what the movie was but no posts showed up there. i showed it to a friend and she helped me search through all the movies with maria in there title but none of them seemed to fit. i really want to understand why this woman is being executed and why she is so calm. i would be kicking and screaming. does anyone know the movie or can tell me the story around it?
note added August 31 2009
A lady whose a post-grad history student studying movies of Joan of Arc recognised the movie and told me that its the execution of a woman called Mariana Pineda.
i looked on imdb and its a mini series in 1984 called Proceso a Mariana Pineda and the actress is called Marisol.The lady tells me that she wa...
Throughout History there have been many different execution methods used to take the lives of prisoners. The French even invented the Guillotine to kill as many...
Throughout History there have been many different execution methods used to take the lives of prisoners. The French even invented the Guillotine to kill as many criminals as quickly as possible, but there was one weapon which was considered primitive which was used to take lives. The Garrote in its most simple form is a piece of wire that was used to strangle someone, and it was used during the First World War, Second World War and other conflicts to silence an enemy. But the Garrote was used as an execution method and in front of large crowds, a condemned person would be strangled to death. It was the Spanish who became infamous for their use of the execution method, but there were also Garrote devices and machines used.
With these machines, a victim would be secured to it with chains and then a sharp blade was attached to a screw which when a handle was turned this would stick into the neck of the victim. When the handle was turned it would kill a prisoner, but other devices were used to strangle and perform executions. The Garrote was an execution method which was used in Spain up until the 1970s, and it was rather brutal and bloody. It was also used by many different countries around the world.
Join us today as we look at, 'The Garrote - History's Most BRUTAL Execution Method?'
Throughout History there have been many different execution methods used to take the lives of prisoners. The French even invented the Guillotine to kill as many criminals as quickly as possible, but there was one weapon which was considered primitive which was used to take lives. The Garrote in its most simple form is a piece of wire that was used to strangle someone, and it was used during the First World War, Second World War and other conflicts to silence an enemy. But the Garrote was used as an execution method and in front of large crowds, a condemned person would be strangled to death. It was the Spanish who became infamous for their use of the execution method, but there were also Garrote devices and machines used.
With these machines, a victim would be secured to it with chains and then a sharp blade was attached to a screw which when a handle was turned this would stick into the neck of the victim. When the handle was turned it would kill a prisoner, but other devices were used to strangle and perform executions. The Garrote was an execution method which was used in Spain up until the 1970s, and it was rather brutal and bloody. It was also used by many different countries around the world.
Join us today as we look at, 'The Garrote - History's Most BRUTAL Execution Method?'
Clip from the 1991 film "El crimen de las estanqueras de Sevilla":
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_huella_del_crimen#El_crimen_de_las_estanqueras_de_Sevilla
...
Clip from the 1991 film "El crimen de las estanqueras de Sevilla":
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_huella_del_crimen#El_crimen_de_las_estanqueras_de_Sevilla
Available for free in streaming by RTVE (with spanish subtitles):
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/la-huella-del-crimen/huella-del-crimen-crimen-estanqueras-sevilla/4148618/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_use_of_capital_punishment_in_Spain
Clip from the 1991 film "El crimen de las estanqueras de Sevilla":
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_huella_del_crimen#El_crimen_de_las_estanqueras_de_Sevilla
Available for free in streaming by RTVE (with spanish subtitles):
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/la-huella-del-crimen/huella-del-crimen-crimen-estanqueras-sevilla/4148618/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_use_of_capital_punishment_in_Spain
i found this clip on youtube called Garroting of fromm Maria. i tried to post a question there asking what the movie was but no posts showed up there. i showed ...
i found this clip on youtube called Garroting of fromm Maria. i tried to post a question there asking what the movie was but no posts showed up there. i showed it to a friend and she helped me search through all the movies with maria in there title but none of them seemed to fit. i really want to understand why this woman is being executed and why she is so calm. i would be kicking and screaming. does anyone know the movie or can tell me the story around it?
note added August 31 2009
A lady whose a post-grad history student studying movies of Joan of Arc recognised the movie and told me that its the execution of a woman called Mariana Pineda.
i looked on imdb and its a mini series in 1984 called Proceso a Mariana Pineda and the actress is called Marisol.The lady tells me that she was convicted of treason in Spain in the 19th century and executed on the garotte.
As for why she is so calm. Well the garotte used on her was actually not like the one shown in the movie which is a more modern version. The modern version (used in Spain until the late 1970s) caused a screw to drive into the back of the neck of the victim severing the spine and causing a fairly quick death. The type of garotte used on poor Maria was a collar garotte that means that the collar around ner neck was tightened as the screw turned and she was strangled. The speed with which this happened depended on the executioner. The time taken to kill someone varied between about two minutes to ten minutes. People sentenced to die in this way were often very cooperative in the hope that the executioner would kill them quickly and not slowly.
Joan of Arc walked calmly to the stake as did many other women who were burned for their crimes. The reason for this was almost certainly that they knew that a burning might kill them within a few minutes or it might take over an hour. I guess they were very anxious to try not to upset the man who had control of how long they would suffer for before death.
if anyone knows any joan of Arc movies you could post there names here so that this nice lady can use them in her studies.
i found this clip on youtube called Garroting of fromm Maria. i tried to post a question there asking what the movie was but no posts showed up there. i showed it to a friend and she helped me search through all the movies with maria in there title but none of them seemed to fit. i really want to understand why this woman is being executed and why she is so calm. i would be kicking and screaming. does anyone know the movie or can tell me the story around it?
note added August 31 2009
A lady whose a post-grad history student studying movies of Joan of Arc recognised the movie and told me that its the execution of a woman called Mariana Pineda.
i looked on imdb and its a mini series in 1984 called Proceso a Mariana Pineda and the actress is called Marisol.The lady tells me that she was convicted of treason in Spain in the 19th century and executed on the garotte.
As for why she is so calm. Well the garotte used on her was actually not like the one shown in the movie which is a more modern version. The modern version (used in Spain until the late 1970s) caused a screw to drive into the back of the neck of the victim severing the spine and causing a fairly quick death. The type of garotte used on poor Maria was a collar garotte that means that the collar around ner neck was tightened as the screw turned and she was strangled. The speed with which this happened depended on the executioner. The time taken to kill someone varied between about two minutes to ten minutes. People sentenced to die in this way were often very cooperative in the hope that the executioner would kill them quickly and not slowly.
Joan of Arc walked calmly to the stake as did many other women who were burned for their crimes. The reason for this was almost certainly that they knew that a burning might kill them within a few minutes or it might take over an hour. I guess they were very anxious to try not to upset the man who had control of how long they would suffer for before death.
if anyone knows any joan of Arc movies you could post there names here so that this nice lady can use them in her studies.
Throughout History there have been many different execution methods used to take the lives of prisoners. The French even invented the Guillotine to kill as many criminals as quickly as possible, but there was one weapon which was considered primitive which was used to take lives. The Garrote in its most simple form is a piece of wire that was used to strangle someone, and it was used during the First World War, Second World War and other conflicts to silence an enemy. But the Garrote was used as an execution method and in front of large crowds, a condemned person would be strangled to death. It was the Spanish who became infamous for their use of the execution method, but there were also Garrote devices and machines used.
With these machines, a victim would be secured to it with chains and then a sharp blade was attached to a screw which when a handle was turned this would stick into the neck of the victim. When the handle was turned it would kill a prisoner, but other devices were used to strangle and perform executions. The Garrote was an execution method which was used in Spain up until the 1970s, and it was rather brutal and bloody. It was also used by many different countries around the world.
Join us today as we look at, 'The Garrote - History's Most BRUTAL Execution Method?'
Clip from the 1991 film "El crimen de las estanqueras de Sevilla":
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_huella_del_crimen#El_crimen_de_las_estanqueras_de_Sevilla
Available for free in streaming by RTVE (with spanish subtitles):
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/la-huella-del-crimen/huella-del-crimen-crimen-estanqueras-sevilla/4148618/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_use_of_capital_punishment_in_Spain
i found this clip on youtube called Garroting of fromm Maria. i tried to post a question there asking what the movie was but no posts showed up there. i showed it to a friend and she helped me search through all the movies with maria in there title but none of them seemed to fit. i really want to understand why this woman is being executed and why she is so calm. i would be kicking and screaming. does anyone know the movie or can tell me the story around it?
note added August 31 2009
A lady whose a post-grad history student studying movies of Joan of Arc recognised the movie and told me that its the execution of a woman called Mariana Pineda.
i looked on imdb and its a mini series in 1984 called Proceso a Mariana Pineda and the actress is called Marisol.The lady tells me that she was convicted of treason in Spain in the 19th century and executed on the garotte.
As for why she is so calm. Well the garotte used on her was actually not like the one shown in the movie which is a more modern version. The modern version (used in Spain until the late 1970s) caused a screw to drive into the back of the neck of the victim severing the spine and causing a fairly quick death. The type of garotte used on poor Maria was a collar garotte that means that the collar around ner neck was tightened as the screw turned and she was strangled. The speed with which this happened depended on the executioner. The time taken to kill someone varied between about two minutes to ten minutes. People sentenced to die in this way were often very cooperative in the hope that the executioner would kill them quickly and not slowly.
Joan of Arc walked calmly to the stake as did many other women who were burned for their crimes. The reason for this was almost certainly that they knew that a burning might kill them within a few minutes or it might take over an hour. I guess they were very anxious to try not to upset the man who had control of how long they would suffer for before death.
if anyone knows any joan of Arc movies you could post there names here so that this nice lady can use them in her studies.
A garrote or garrote vil (a Spanish word; alternative spellings include garotte and garrotte) is a weapon, most often referring to a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire or fishing line used to strangle a person.
Assassination weapon
A garrote can be made out of many different materials, including ropes, cable ties, fishing lines, nylon, guitar strings, telephone cord or piano wire.
A stick may be used to tighten the garrote; the Spanish word actually refers to the stick itself, so it is a pars pro toto where the eponymous component may actually be absent. In Spanish, the term may also refer to a rope and stick used to constrict a limb as a torture device.
Since World War II, the garrote has been regularly employed as a weapon by soldiers as a silent means of eliminating sentries and other enemy personnel. Instruction in the use of purpose-built and improvised garrottes is included in the training of many elite military units and special forces. A typical military garrote consists of two wooden handles attached to a length of flexible wire; the wire is looped over a sentry's head and pulled taut in one motion. Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion have used a particular type of double-loop garrote (referred to as la loupe), where a double coil of rope or cord is dropped around a victim's neck and then pulled taut. Even if the victim pulls on one of the coils, he only succeeds in tightening the other.
An artificial season Covered by summer rain Losing all my reason Cause there's nothing left to blame Shadows paint the sidewalk A living picture in a frame See the sea of people All their faces look the same So I sat down for awhile Forcing a smile In a state of self-denial Is it worthwhile Sell my pity for a dime Yeah, Just one dime Sell my pity for a dime Yeah, Just one dime Plain talk can be the easy way Signs of losing my faith Losing my faith Plain talk can be the easy way Signs of losing my faith Losing my faith So I sat down for awhile Yeah, Forcing a smile In a state of self-denial Yeah, Is it worthwhile Sell my pity for a dime Yeah, Just one dime Sell my pity for a dime Yeah, Just one dime So I sat down for awhile Yeah, Forcing a smile In a state of self-denial Yeah, Is it worthwhile Sell my pity for a dime Yeah, Just one dime Sell my pity for a dime
Dubbed Britain's most evil stepdad, Lee Ford murdered his wife and her four children at their home in 2000 then attempted to cover up their deaths in the weeks following ... .
A Conservative backbencher stunned the Commons today when he suggested upping the penalty for fly-tippers – and “garrotting” them ... Garrotting, in case it’s not a regular part of your vocabulary, means killing someone by strangulation.
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Congratulations to Paloma Aba Garrote, who has been appointed Director of CINEA, effective from Sunday 16 July 2023. Ms Aba Garrote had been Acting Director ... Upon her appointment, Ms Aba Garrote stated.
“Garrotes have been around for centuries,” Albion says ... They would’ve done covert operations and sabotage and anybody who would’ve been trained there would’ve used a garrote.” However, concealing a garrote within a watch seems to be a fictional step.
Police hunting the killer of a taxi driver who was garrotted with cheese wire 39 years ago will make a fresh television appeal to trace a man who was seen wearing an Iron Maiden T-shirt at a bar in 2015... .
