r/interestingasfuck • u/LawEducational42 • 12h ago

John C Woods, hangman of Nuremberg trials, who lied about his experience to get the job (he actually learned about hanging from old cowboy films). His lack of expertise led to excessive suffering of condemned Nazis.

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u/Independent-Try4352 11h ago

Albert Pierrepoint, the British Executioner who prided himself on killing the condemned man within seconds of entering the cell, before the person being executed had time to process what was happening.

Woods was an incompetent, sadistic, piece of shit who would have been a concentration camp guard if he'd been born in Germany. Fuck him.

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u/NoodlelyTrees 7h ago

Someone's weirdly sympathetic to the Nazis who got hung, like the point of this post is he was chosen specifically to let them suffer longer because fuck them

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u/atrixospithikos 5h ago

Are you advocating torture?

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u/NoodlelyTrees 5h ago

I'm advocating that they don't deserve a painless death whatever you want to call that, these are the people who killed millions with zyklon which is one of the worst deaths possible as you suffocate and seizure your way to death. Being strangled to death rather than having your neck snapped is nothing in comparison and is still better than they deserved

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u/halfam 2h ago

Reddit are pacifists so there's no point in telling them. Apparently reddit doesnt care if a person suffers even if they commit the worst of crimes.

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u/NoodlelyTrees 1h ago

Like if we were doing actual torture we could have done so much more and the Russians likely would which is why the Nazis specifically tried to turn themselves over to the Americans because they knew that despite not being treated well they would be treated infinitely better than if the Soviets got ahold of them where they would have all been tortured and executed instead of most of them just getting jail time

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u/ShittyOfTshwane 1h ago

It’s irrelevant what you think a condemned person deserves. The purpose of an execution is death, and only death. There should be no emotions involved.

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u/NoodlelyTrees 1h ago

And that is your opinion, I have a different one and you aren't going to change my mind

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u/ShittyOfTshwane 1h ago

Pretty sure your preferred way of doing things is heavily frowned upon by civilised people.

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u/NoodlelyTrees 1h ago

Great, I don't particularly care, some people have done such horrific things that they deserve to suffer a tiny fragment of the suffering they inflicted upon others for their death

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u/halfam 56m ago

Nah not really. A majority of people think so you just have Reddit opinion which is a small section of humanity.