garrote

Malkovich’s performance is like the garrote used to kill in the film — he applies the right pressure to the right part.

“I knew that would get your attention,” Frankie said, his voice as tight as a garrote.

He rips the phone cord out of Marion's wall and wraps it around his hands like a garrote when she threatens to activate her Life Alert button.

She was killed by a blow to the head and had been strangled with a garrote.

He had been staging a performance in which he planned to sit in a garrote during the congress to denounce repression.