Definition of "garroting" [garroting]

• The act of strangling a person, or compressing his windpipe until he becomes insensible: practised especially in committing highway robbery. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Their preferred method of killing the enemy was "garroting," yes he says this."
• "Suppose an epidemic of garroting breaks out in the city of Philadelphia, as it did in the city of London a very few years ago; to tell me that I am to walk the streets of this city at night without any protection whatever from ruffians, is to state something to which I will never agree."
• "A terrorist broke into the Fogels' home before stabbing and garroting to death the two parents, Udi and Ruth, and their children Yoav, 11 years old, Elad, 4, and almost decapitating Hadas, who was only three months old."