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[[File:Pedro_Berruguete_Saint_Dominic_Presiding_over_an_Auto-da-fe_1495.jpg|thumb|In this 15th-century depiction of the burning of [[Albigensian]]s after an ''[[auto da fé]]'', the condemned had been garroted previously. It is one of the first depictions of a garrote. [[Pedro Berruguete]], ''[[Saint Dominic]] Presiding over an Auto-da-fé.'']]

The garrote ({{lang-la|laqueus}}) is known to have berenbeen used in the first century BC in Rome. It is referred to in accounts of the [[Catiline#Second Catilinian Conspiracy|Second Catilinian Conspiracy]], where conspirators including [[Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura]] were strangled with a ''laqueus'' in the [[Mamertine Prison|Tullianum]], and the implement is shown in some early reliefs, e.g., ''Répertoire de Reliefs grecs et romains'', tome I, p.&nbsp;341 (1919).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediterranees.net/civilisation/Rich/Articles/Supplices/Laqueus.html|title=Laqueus|publisher=Mediterranees.net|access-date=2009-09-16|archive-date=2010-06-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620185802/http://mediterranees.net/civilisation/Rich/Articles/Supplices/Laqueus.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It was also used in the [[Middle Ages]] in Spain and Portugal. It was employed during the ''[[Spanish colonization of the Americas|conquista]]'' of the Americas, notably in the execution of the [[Inca Empire|Inca]] emperor [[Atahualpa]].

It was intended as a more merciful form of execution than [[death by burning]], where [[heretic]]s who converted to Christianity after their conviction would receive a quick strangulation from the [[Spanish Inquisition]]. A later version of the garrote used an iron collar with a large metal screw in the back. The theory was that when the screw was tightened, it would crush the [[brain stem]] and kill the victim instantly. But if the screw missed the point where the brain meets the [[spinal column]], it would simply bore into their neck while the iron collar strangled him.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/05/merciful-but-messy-alternatives-to-lethal-injection.html|title=Take My Life, Please|first=Hanny|last=Hindi|work=Slate |date=May 5, 2006|via=slate.com}}</ref>