"method had not been employed there since the late 12th century. Garrote A garrote or garrote vil (a Spanish word; alternative spellings include garotte and similar variants) is a weapon, most often a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire or fishing line used to strangle a person. 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"
"Cadena temporal Cadena temporal and cadena perpetua were legal punishments. Cadena temporal included imprisonment for at least 12 years and one day, in chains, at hard and painful labor; the loss of many basic civil rights; and subjection to lifetime surveillance. Cadena perpetua is identical except that it is a sentence of life as opposed to a temporary status. The ""title"" of the punishment is actually descriptive, as ""cadena"" is a Spanish word meaning chain while temporal means impermanent or temporary, in addition to the meaning it shares with English and ""perpetua"", means continuous in Latin and Spanish. One of"
"Schandmantel A Schandmantel or Schandtonne (), sometimes also Spanish coat, is a torture device which came into use in the 13th century. Schandmantels were fashioned from wood and sometimes lined with sheet metal. Victims were made to wear this device in public where they would be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them. The Schandmantel was mostly used as punishment for poachers and prostitutes. The use of the Schandmantel was comparable to the ""Lästersteine"" (German) or ""schandstenen"" (Dutch), heavy stones weighing down from the neck. The Schandtonne was weighted along the lower rim and around the neck opening"
"Machete A machete (; ) is a broad blade used either as an implement like an axe, or in combat like a short sword. The blade is typically long and usually under thick. In the Spanish language, the word is a diminutive form of the word ""macho"", which was used to refer to sledgehammers. In the English language, an equivalent term is matchet, though it is less commonly used. In the English-speaking Caribbean, such as Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, and Grenada and in Trinidad and Tobago, the term ""cutlass"" is used for these agricultural tools. In various tropical and subtropical countries,"
"and 21st centuries, the American Mafia used ligature strangulation as a means of murdering their victims. Confessed American serial killer Altemio Sanchez used ligature strangulation in the rapes and/or murders of his victims, as did Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer. Strangling Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and is one of two main ways that hanging causes death (alongside breaking the victim's neck). Strangling does not have to be fatal; limited or interrupted strangling"
"Boot (torture) The term boot refers to a family of instruments of torture and interrogation variously designed to cause crushing injuries to the foot and/or leg. The boot has taken many forms in various places and times. Common varieties include the Spanish boot (sometimes referred to as ""scarpines"") and the Malay boot. One type was made of four pieces of narrow wooden board nailed together. The boards were measured to fit the victim's leg. Once the leg was enclosed, wedges would be hammered between the boards, creating pressure. The pressure would be increased until the victim confessed or lost consciousness."
"thin, long, and very sharp knife nicknamed a """"peixeira"""", a fish-filleting knife, used mostly to torture or cut the throats of their victims. The knife was also used in a very specific way to kill quickly; the blade was stabbed downwards between the neck and collarbone, due to its length the blade would cause instantly lethal damage to major blood vessels and the heart. Cangaço Cangaço () was the banditism phenomenon of Northeast Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This region of Brazil is known for its aridness and hard way of life, and in a form"
"in Germany and Scotland, was a steel boot that was placed over the leg of the accused and was tightened. The pressure from the squeezing of the boot would break the shin bone in pieces. An anonymous Scotsman called it ""The most severe and cruel pain in the world"". Ingenious variants of the Spanish boot were also designed to slowly crush feet between iron plates armed with terrifying spikes. The echelle more commonly known as the ""ladder"" or ""rack"" was a long table that the accused would lie upon and be stretched violently. The torture was used so intensely that"
"Scourge A scourge is a whip or lash, especially a multi-thong type, used to inflict severe corporal punishment or self-mortification. It is usually made of leather. The word is most commonly considered to be derived from Old French ""escorgier"" - ""to whip"", going further back to the Vulgar Latin ""excorrigiare"": the Latin prefix ""ex""- ""out, off"" with its additional English meaning of ""thoroughly"", plus ""corrigia"" - ""thong"", or in this case ""whip"". Some connect it to , ""to flay"", built of two Latin parts, ""ex""- (""off"") and , ""skin"". A scourge (; diminutive: ) typically consists of several thongs fastened"
"Strappado The strappado, also known as corda, is a form of torture wherein the victim's hands are tied behind his or her back and suspended by a rope attached to the wrists, typically resulting in dislocated shoulders. Weights may be added to the body to intensify the effect and increase the pain. This kind of torture would generally not last more than an hour, without rest, as it would likely result in death. Other names for strappado include ""reverse hanging"", ""Palestinian hanging"" (because of its alleged use by Israel against Palestinians) and ""il tormento della corda"". Historically, it was used"
"Crucifixion Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang for several days until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. The crucifixion of Jesus is a central narrative in Christianity, and the cross (sometimes depicting Jesus nailed onto it) is the main religious symbol for many Christian churches. Ancient Greek has two verbs for crucify: ""ana-stauro"" (ἀνασταυρόω), from ""stauros"", ""stake"", and ""apo-tumpanizo"" (ἀποτυμπανίζω) ""crucify on a plank"", together with ""anaskolopizo"" (ἀνασκολοπίζω ""impale""). In earlier pre-Roman Greek texts ""anastauro"" usually means ""impale"". New Testament Greek uses"
"of Finland resides today in the Museum of Crime, Vantaa. In Spain executions were carried out by various methods including strangulation by the garrotte. In the 16th and 17th centuries, noblemen were sometimes executed by means of beheading. Examples include Anthony van Stralen, Lord of Merksem, Lamoral, Count of Egmont and Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn. They were tied to a chair on a scaffold. The executioner used a knife to cut the head from the body. It was considered to be a more honourable death if the executioner started with cutting the throat. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Ignacio"
"out by shooting. Strangulation by garotte had been portrayed as a draconian act by the publicity after its last use in 1974, when Salvador Puig Antich was executed in Barcelona and Heinz Chez in Tarragona. Capital punishment was common in the Spanish kingdom, and methods used included decapitation (especially for nobility). In 1820 Ferdinand VII replaced all other methods with the garrote, which was used mainly since then, including for the liberal freedom fighter Mariana de Pineda Muñoz and the assassin of six-time Prime Minister of Spain Antonio Cánovas del Castillo. According to a pamphlet published anonymously by Crown Prince"
"Parrilla (torture) The parrilla is a method of torture where the victim is strapped to a metal frame and subjected to electric shock. The Spanish word ""parrilla"" means a cooking grill or barbecue of the type commonly found in South American countries. By analogy, the metal frame used in the torture was given the same name because of its appearance and because the victim was placed on top of it like the meat on a barbecue. The parrilla is both the metal frame and the method of torture that uses it. The parrilla was used in a number of countries"
"an opportunity to stuff a note, cigarettes, drugs, a photograph of their child, a weapon, into the bundle, which the inmate could then hoist back up through the hole in the wall, before the guards came running to intercept the line. They called these rope and bundle setups ""palomas"" (""pigeons"") and apparently, at any given time, seven or eight ""palomas"" could be flying down into the street, or back up to the prison, attached to their makeshift ropes. After the 1989 attack on La Tablada Regiment, sixteen members of the MTP (""Movimiento Todos por la Patria"") were sentenced to life"
"Martinet The martinet () is a punitive device traditionally used in France and other parts of Europe. The word also has other usages, described below. A martinet is a short, scourge-like (multi-tail) type of whip made of a wooden handle of about 25 cm (10 inches) in length and about 10 lashes of equal, relatively short length. The lashes are usually made of leather, but sometimes soap-stiffened cords are used in place of leather. It was a traditional instrument of physical punishment in France and other European countries. In French, it also refers to a similar dusting implement; the type"
"Bilboes Bilboes (always plural) or grillos are iron restraints normally placed on a person's ankles. They have commonly been used as leg shackles to restrain prisoners for different purposes until the modern ages. Bilboes were also used on slave ships, such as the Henrietta Marie. According to legend, the device was invented in Bilbao, Basque Country within Spain, and was imported into England by the ships of the Spanish Armada for use on prospective English prisoners. However, the ""Oxford English Dictionary"" notes that the term was used in English well before then. Bilboes consist of a pair of ""U""-shaped iron"
"the Inca emperor Atahualpa. In the Ottoman Empire, execution by strangulation was reserved for very high officials and members of the ruling family. Unlike the Spanish version, a bowstring was used instead of a tightening collar. During the Peninsular War of 1808–1814, French forces regularly used the garrote to execute Spanish ""guerrilleros"", priests, and other opponents of Napoleonic rule. Around 1810 the earliest known metallic garrote appeared in Spain, and on 28 April 1828, the garrote was declared the sole method of executing civilians in that country. In May 1897, the last public garroting in Spain was performed in Barcelona."
"supplied further with fish, described as only one species and small, ""only one or two handpalms long"", but of a good taste. The penal system of the Muisca is described as ""moral"" and of ""medium reason"", because the offenses are punished ""very well"". ""Epítome"" describes ""there are more gallows than in Spain"" with people hanging between two posts with arms, feet and hair attached to them. The Muisca are described as cutting hands, noses and ears for ""not so serious crimes"". Shaming happened to the higher social classes where hair and pieces of the clothing were cut. The respect for"
"Cangue A cangue () or tcha is a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in China and some other parts of East Asia and Southeast Asia until the early years of the twentieth century. It was also occasionally used for or during torture. Because it restricted a person's movements, it was common for people wearing cangues to starve to death as they were unable to feed themselves. The word ""cangue"" is French, from the Portuguese ""canga,"" which means yoke, the carrying tool has also been used to the same effect, with the hands tied to each"
"harm. A much more severe and physically damaging suspension torture is known as strappado. Attribution: Picket (punishment) The picket, picquet or piquet was a form of military punishment in vogue in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe. It consisted of the offender being forced to stand on the narrow flat top of a peg for a period of time. The punishment died out in the 18th century and was so unfamiliar by 1800 that when the then governor of Trinidad, Sir Thomas Picton, ordered Luisa Calderon, a woman of European and African ancestry to be so punished, he was"
"as a way of corporal punishment in addition to the severe public humiliation it posed. The 18th-century development of the iron maiden may have been a misinterpretation of the function of the Schandmantel. Schandmantel A Schandmantel or Schandtonne (), sometimes also Spanish coat, is a torture device which came into use in the 13th century. Schandmantels were fashioned from wood and sometimes lined with sheet metal. Victims were made to wear this device in public where they would be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them. The Schandmantel was mostly used as punishment for poachers and prostitutes. The"
"in South America, including Argentina during the dirty war in the 1970s and 1980s and Brazil. In Chile during the Pinochet regime (1973 to 1990) it became notorious as a routine tool of interrogation. The victim was stripped naked, then laid on his or her back on a metal frame, often a bed-frame. Straps were used to restrain the victim in a position convenient for torture, with legs spread and arms either above the head or away from the sides of the body. The straps were tightened to prevent movement. Methods of preparation included heavy stimulation of the genitals, often"
"Mancuerda Mancuerda was a method of torture. A tight cord was wound around the arms of the condemned. The executioner would then throw his entire weight backwards, or the pressure would be exerted by a lever. The cord cut through skin and muscle directly to the bone. Additional pain was produced by the fact that the body of the prisoner was stretched as in a rack, and the belt or girdle attached to the waist also contributed further to the suffering. The procedure was repeated six or eight times, on different parts of the arms. People subjected to such torture"
"Hanging Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck. The ""Oxford English Dictionary"" states that hanging in this sense is ""specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck"", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain ""hanging"". Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since medieval times, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first account of execution by hanging was in Homer's ""Odyssey"" (Book XXII). In this specialised meaning of the common word ""hang"","
"Impalement Impalement, as a method of execution and also torture, is the penetration of a human by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, often by complete or partial perforation of the torso. It was used particularly in response to ""crimes against the state"" and regarded across a number of cultures as a very harsh form of capital punishment and recorded in myth and art. Impalement was also used during wartime to suppress rebellion, punish traitors or collaborators, and as a punishment for breaches of military discipline. Offenses where impalement was occasionally employed include: contempt for the"
"This technique provoked fractures of arms and shoulders. It had to last less than half an hour, since keeping victims in such a position for longer periods could lead to death. In Russia up to the 18th century the rack (""дыба"", dyba) was a gallows-like device for suspending the victims (strappado). The suspended victims were whipped with a knout and sometimes burned with torches. The term rack is also used, occasionally, for a number of simpler constructions that merely facilitate corporal punishment, after which it may be named specifically, e.g., ""caning rack"", as in a given jurisdiction it was often"
"2009. It consists of a sphere of high-grade iron approximately across and weighing around . The chain is of some in length and terminates in a leg iron or shackle. Ball and chain A ball and chain was a physical restraint device historically applied to prisoners, primarily in the British Empire and its former colonies, from the 17th century until as late as the mid-20th century. A type of shackle, the ball and chain is designed so that the weight of the iron ball at the end of the short chain restricts and limits the pace at which its wearer"
"Tablilla Tablillas was a Medieval Spanish technique of torture for slowly squeezing and crushing the toes and fingers by means of pillories and wedges. The tablillas was an auxiliary torture used to increase the effectiveness of other tortures that could be applied while the prisoner was bound to the Rack and stretched to the point where his fingers and toes were tense. The tablillas were a set of four small pillories, each with five holes designed tightly to confine either fingers or toes, and—during the application of other tortures—long, thin, gradually tapered wedges were hammered into the holes alongside the"
"Strapping (punishment) Strapping refers to the use of a strap as an implement of corporal punishment. It is typically a broad and heavy strip of leather, often with a hard handle, the more flexible 'blade' being applied to the offender. Probably because of the stiffness, the word ""strap"" is sometimes used interchangeably with a leather paddle. Other terms that are used interchangeably include whipping, lashing, and confusingly even in some official language, belting—in principle a belt is lighter, without a handle. These terms are strictly speaking reserved for other implements. The Scottish tawse is a forked version with two or"
"also hung from the hands, but the ankles are tied and a heavy weight is attached to them. This will cause pain and possible damage not only to the arms, but also to the legs and hips. According to William Godwin, Girolamo Savonarola was tortured by strappado multiple times before being put to death in a trial by ordeal (fire); Savonarola, however, apparently renounced his confessions after being tortured, which eventually led to his sentence of burning at the stake. This device was thought to be used during the Salem Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 to torture accused"
"was made to slowly revolve. Through the openings between the spokes, the executioner hit the victim with an iron hammer that could easily break the victim's bones. This process was repeated several times per limb. Once his bones were broken, he was left on the wheel to die. It could take hours, even days, before shock and dehydration caused death. The punishment was abolished in Germany as late as 1827. The word 'torture' comes from the French ""torture"", originating in the Late Latin ""tortura"" and ultimately deriving the past participle of ""torquere"" meaning 'to twist'. The word is also used"
"descriptions of the time. ""Estoc"" is also the name given for the sword used by a matador in the Spanish sport of bullfighting; also known as ""espada de matar toros"" (""sword for killing bulls""). The matador's estoc is typically a shorter (88 cm), one-handed sword used for thrusting. Estoc ""Estoc"" is the French name for a type of sword, also called a tuck in English, in use from the 14th to 17th centuries. It is characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for two-handed use and a straight, edgeless, but sharply pointed blade of around to in length."