Garrotting

[deaddirty]

Garrotting of Antich Puig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ivQYaQ1ui0&feature=related

 

[deaddirty]

Chicho Sanchez ferlioso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_gAWnvLkic&feature=related

 

[jbartonb]

With the Puig execution, exactly how does he die? Is he strangled or does the machine break his neck?

 

[dropdude2002]

The garrote, as it was designed at that time, was designed to cause death by driving a blade between the vertebrae, thus severing the spinal cord. From what I've read, it worked much better in theory than in practice, leading many victims to strangle or die of exsanguination from the wound.

 

[jbartonb]

Interesting. If that is the case then this movie wasn't very realistic at all. You don't see a blade. You do here a sound that could be a neck snapping or it could just be the sound of the garotte screw.

 

[deaddirty]

The original garotte was simply a rope or ligature that was twisted from behind, so death was by strangulation, with some fine death struggles. But as an execution method, yes it was adapted to drive a blade into the spine - I don't know how ell that worked (or didn't!), or whether anton Puich would have been executed that way or by the old-style strangulation garotting.