The garrote was the principal device used for capital punishment in Spain for one and a half centuries until its abolition. Originally, it entailed a mode of execution wherein a convict would be beaten to death with a club (garrote in Spanish).n this 15th-century depiction of the burning of Albigensians after an auto de fe, the condemned had been garroted previously. It is one of the first depictions of a garrote. Pedro Berruguete, Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe.
In the distal third of the hand and webspaces, the dorsal metacarpal arteries supply two or three perforator branches, which travel between the tendons and tendon sheaths of the back of the hand to reach the skin, where they divide into two or more short branches (salmon, 1988).
The vein from the ulnar side of the little finger joins the network on the ulnar side and becomes the basilic vein. The dorsal metacarpal veins are deep veins that run parallel to the arteries and at some angles cross them. Valves are located in the veins that prevent the back flow of blood, ensuring that blood can only flow one way, and that oxygen-rich blood is always flowing through the hand. Medical personnel are able to draw blood from the dorsal metacarpal veins to perform diagnostic laboratory tests.