garrotes

But: if you cannot tell that the killer is a man or a woman when s/he garrotes the usually-deserving victim?

Archive 2009-09-01 Steve Perry 2009

The garrucha or strappado and the garrotes, combined with the water-torture and the rack, represented the survival of the fittest in the natural selection of torments concerning which the Holy Office in Italy and Spain had such a vast experience.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Sinewy hands brandished knives and garrotes, silent weapons of the unseen assassin.

Tentacles Of Evil Adams, Stephen 2004

The man with the sharpened fingernails -- it was his men who would step out from the elevator with garrotes and calfskin gloves.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

The man with the sharpened fingernails -- it was his men who would step out from the elevator with garrotes and calfskin gloves.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

Manni's eyes light up as Vipul yanks the arsenal doors open and starts handing out clubs, chibs, spikies, shuriken, and garrotes.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

He'd be wondering what kind of terrible weapons they'd have on them, knives or garrotes or guns.

The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002

Once she passed through the door, Bennie would be locked in with a general population of violent inmates packing knives, straight-edge razors, garrotes, shanks, forks twisted into spikes, and possibly a blowtorch or two.

html Scottoline, Lisa 2001

His external examination notes cut straight to the two garrotes:

My Dark Places Ellroy, James, 1948- 1996

He took the two garrotes, the victim's dress, right stocking and brassiere to the Sheriff's Crime Lab.

My Dark Places Ellroy, James, 1948- 1996