garroted

It first belonged to the nephew and heir of Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Say nothing to me," returned Lawyer Perkins, hastily thrusting a handful of loose papers into the open throat of the green bag, which he garroted an instant afterwards with a thick black cord.

From The Stillwater Tragedy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

On either side the road lay swamps, their gaunt trees festooned, or rather garroted, with vines, and draped with gray moss; while all about and among them lay their comrades already prostrate and decaying.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

Soon the town, garroted as it were, seemed to be asleep, and safe from robbers and evil-doers, except through the roofs.

From Maitre Cornelius by Honoré de Balzac