Garroted [adjective]

Before he was garroted, Atahualpa begged that his remains might be preserved at Quito with those of his mother's people.

The chevalier was thus overpowered, garroted and captured in less time than it has taken to write these words.

This dissatisfied the people who tore him from the spiritual authorities, garroted and burnt him.

Hollister jumped for his wrist and at the same time Mike flung himself across the bar and garroted him.

But the religious asserted that they would not obey, and that, if they were garroted by the soldiers, they would be martyrs.

The prior said that, if the religious were garroted, his Holiness would publish them as martyrs.

He acted as a guide to the force sent in pursuit, and every pirate was captured and afterwards "garroted."

Most of them was garroted, and a few was condemned to work on the roads for life.

Art, now in its very birth in his heart and life, was to be garroted.

Our friend Blocque is garroted, and robbed of his 'honest earnings,' at one fell swoop by a footpad!