A Colombian necktie (Spanish: corbata colombiana) or tie-cut (Spanish: corte de corbata) is a form of execution or post-mortem mutilation in which the victim's tongue is pulled through a deep cut beneath the jaw and left dangling on the neck.
It first appeared in Colombia during the period known as La Violencia (1948–1958) as a method of psychological warfare designed to scare and intimidate.
[1] It was one of several documented types of public mutilation in the conflict used to terrorize people away from their land.
Others included killing a pregnant woman, extracting the fetus and placing it on her body and replacing it with a rooster; stuffing the genitals of dead men into their mouths; and the "flower-vase-cut" where the victim's limbs were cut off and stuffed into their torso.
[4] During the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, defense lawyers claimed that hitmen hired by drug dealers gave Nicole Brown Simpson a Colombian necktie, but this was barred from testimony due to a lack of supporting evidence.