garroted

Sometimes it’s not, and not just when there’s danger of someone being garroted by a mystery assassin.

If I used sexist, racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic language as curse words, I might be garroted.

We learn about “the time she garroted Timothy Spencer’s pony because he had been sitting on it when he had glanced at the hem of her frock.”

Don’t let the papers print lies about me after I’ve garroted myself with my tie.

As Mr. Aiello garroted a mobster, he improvised a message to his victim that director Francis Ford Coppola kept in the film: “Michael Corleone says hello.”