A series of unfortunate misunderstandings and circumstantial evidences led to German tourist Helga Bühlman to be convicted as drug trafficker and sentenced to death. And alas, in that Third World country, executions were carried out with the same procedure as one century before, by strangulation on the garrote, a heritage from the times of the colonization by the spaniards.
Therefore, all appeals and petitions exhausted, one morning, Helga was dragged in fetters, sobbing and pleading innocence, to the execution room where two garrotes awaited: one for a common criminal and another for her. Already bound to the pole, half-naked and collared, the desperate woman was forced to witness how her chance companion jerked and kicked furiously making horrible gasping noises as tge executioner took his time strangling him. When he was decladred dead, after almost ten minutes of a horrible agony, the prison doctor told the terrified woman that "Unfortunately your appeal for a stay in your execution has been rejected, the executioner will proceed to garrote you immediately, be courageous!" Then, Helga was also garroted.