garotting , also: garoting

He promised Zayn that the garotting would be slow and agonizing.

But for me-well, the worry sends me crazy: I have nightmares in which I see the Spanish garotting you, or a cannonball smashing you into a pulp,or -" "But I always come back safely, and anyway usually you'rewith us."

If the impression created by these furious responses was that garotting (as in other instances of street violence that we have already encountered in other historical periods) represented a novel departure in the national character, then elsewhere the garotting panic itself was taken as a sign of temperamental instability.