A short-drop variant is the Austro-Hungarian "pole" method, called Würgegalgen (literally: strangling gallows), in which the following steps take place:...
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was executed by Josef Lang using an Austrian version of the Garrote (Würgegalgen) in the courtyard of Leoben. There is a first-hand account of his arrest...
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