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GARROTE (Spanish for " cudgel ") , an appliance used in Spain and 'Portugal for the execution of criminals condemned to death. The criminal is conducted to the place of execution (which is public) on horseback or in a cart, wearing a black tunic, and is attended by a procession of priests, &c. He is seated on a scaffold
iron collar (the garrote
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT .) Originally a stout cord or bandage was tied round the neck of the criminal, who was seated in a chair fixed to a post. Between the cord and the neck a stick was inserted (hence the name) and twisted
" Garrotting " is the name given in England to a form of robbery with violence which became rather common in the winter of 18621863. The thief came up behind his victim, threw a cord over his head, and tightened it nearly to strangulation point, while robbing him. An act of 1863, imposing the penalty
penalty
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judges
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