garrotting in A Sentence

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    It's a thoughtful movie, alternating between slow-moving, often dream-like segments, and harrowing scenes of violence, Garrotting and torture.

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    As it turns out, although Garrotting itself was never a major problem in London, newspapers from the era positively loved reporting on it.

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    The weird thing about Garrotting and how widely it was reported at the time is that it doesn't actually appear to have been all that common;

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    Newspapers' coverage of Garrotting exploded in 1862 when an MP called Hugh Pilkington was strangled and robbed of his watch on his way home from the House of Commons.

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    In an effort to prove that they were stomping down on Garrotting in particular, the police also began classifying regular robberies and even drunken brawls as instances of Garrotting, to fudge their numbers.

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    Although the press continued to discuss Garrotting all throughout the 1860s, actual verifiable reports of the crime dried up in 1863 right after a large amount of arrests were made in response to the passing of the previously mentioned Security from Violence Act.

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    In particular, the so-called“Garrotting” cases, where someone strangles someone else, often using their arm or a length of wire, cord, or cloth, seemed to touch the rawest nerve with the people of London, with the fear of Garrotting reaching a fever-pitch in the 1860s.

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