Kara Mustafa Pasha
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Kara Mustafa Pasha was an Ottoman nobleman, military figure and grand vizier, who was a central character in the Ottoman Empire's last attempts at expansion into both Central and Eastern Europe.
Imaginative portrait of Kara Mustafa Pasha, 1670-1724, Netherlands
Imaginative portrait of Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha
Kara Mustafa Pasha's strangulation by a silk cord on 25 December 1683.
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.
Kara Mustafa Pasha
…punishment inflicted on high-ranking persons in the Ottoman Empire. His last words were, "Am I to die?" and "As God pleases." Kara Mustafa Pasha's strangulation by a silk cord on 25 December 1683. Legacy The Foundation of Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha was one of the largest foundations ever founded both in the Ottoman Empire…
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