French MacLean. “American Hangman. Mastersergeant John C
French MacLean. “American Hangman. Mastersergeant John C. Master Sergeant John C. Woods was an American executioner assigned to hang 10 Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg executions in 1946. Of the 10 men he was charged with hanging, at least 7 of them weren’t killed by a broken neck, which is how a hanging is supposed to work. “Those Nazis were bad, bad men. So what if it took longer for them to die. Maybe they should have thought of that as they were sending people to concentration camps." ⠀ ⠀ U.S. Army hangman John C. Woods was a psychopath who lied his way into becoming the executioner at Nuremberg — “Those Nazis were bad, bad men. So what if it took longer for them to die. Maybe they should have thought of that as they were sending people to concentration camps." ⠀ ⠀ U.S. Army hangman John C. Woods was a psychopath who lied his way into becoming the executioner at Nuremberg He did everything in his power to ensure that the condemned Nazi leaders suffered until thei...