Atahualpa
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Atawallpa, also Atahualpa or Ataw Wallpa, whose regnal name was Caccha Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui Inca, was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April 1532 until his capture and execution in Ju
Atabalipa, King of Peru, 17th-century oil painting at the MuNa, Quito
"The execution of Atahualpa Inca in Cajamarca: they behead him", drawn in 1615 by the chronicler Guaman Poma
The bastard tyrant, Atahualpa, 18th-century painting by the Cuzco School (Brooklyn Museum)
The Inca coming to meet Pizarro
Garrote
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A garrote or garrotte, or garrote vil, is a weapon and a method of capital punishment. It consists of a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire, or fishing line, used to strangle a person.
Atahualpa
…and the murder of Huáscar. They put him on trial and sentenced him to death by burning at the stake. However, after his baptism in July 1533, he was garroted instead. A line of successors continued to claim the title of emperor, either as Spanish vassals or as rebel leaders, but none were able to hold…
From the torture museum of Freiburg im Breisgau
In this 15th-century depiction of the burning of Albigensians after an auto da fé, the condemned had been garrotted previously. It is one of the first depictions of a garrotte. Pedro Berruguete, Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fé.
Execution by garrotte in Spain
Execution by garrotte of a murderer in Barcelona