Colombian necktie

plural Colombian neckties · alternative Colombian necklace

1. A method of execution in which the victim’s throat is slashed vertically, then his tongue is pulled out through the gaping wound toward the sternum, after which the victim usually dies of asphyxiation or blood loss.

   A young girl, age eleven, had been slashed across the throat and had her tongue pulled through the cut, reminiscent of the Colombian necktie.

   2000, B. J. Whalen, Justifiable Homicide, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 243, →ISBN

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   Guillermo’s long body was sprawled across the double bed. It took him a minute to realize what had been done. He had read reports of the “Colombian necktie” but had never expected to see one, […]

   1981, David Thoreau, The Santanic Condition: A Novel, Arbor House, →ISBN, page 132, →ISBN

   In Jackson Heights, according to New York Newsday, the favored method of execution is now the “Colombian necktie”: The throat is cut and the tongue pulled through the slit to hang down upon the chest. The drug gangs are not misunderstood little boys.

   1988 August 15, New York Magazine, volume 21, № 32, page 22

   His body had been found two weeks earlier by the DEA on the MacArthur Causeway leading over to the Beach, the concrete beneath his crumpled body soaking up blood, his tongue hanging out in a Colombian necktie.

   1990, Douglas Terman, Enemy Territory, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 331, →ISBN

   If you betray them, they kill your family and give you a “Colombian necktie.” First they spread-eagle you on a vertical board and slit your neck vertically, from the chin to the collarbone. This severs the larynx and prevents you from screaming. Then they pull your tongue through the slit and watch as you slowly strangle.

   1994, Ronald K. Siegel, Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia, Crown, →ISBN, page 276, →ISBN

   Supporting this, they claimed that Nicole must have borrowed money from one of Colombian drug Lords and so fell victim to Colombian necktie or necklace?

   1997, Felicia Okeke-Ibezim, O. J. Simpson: The Trial of the Century, Ekwike Books & Publishing, →ISBN, page 36, →ISBN