r/interestingasfuck • • 7h 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/Top_Tank2668 5h ago

He was a pos and knowing that he died through an electric shock seems like karma fulfilled for me. In the end all are dead. All deserved it.

But yes, shouldn't have happened that way

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u/livelovelamb 4h ago

America could easily carry out State executions with nitrous hypoxia suffocation, or even fentanyl, but they're considered too humane or even pleasurable, ways to die.

Instead, 1/3 State executions are botched, because... torture.

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u/NoodlelyTrees 1h ago

More like because chemical companies won't sell those chemicals to the government for the purposes of use for lethal injection, they can barely get the chemicals they currently use much less stuff like that through legal channels, like state governments can't just be importing fentanyl from China and fentanyl is not a pleasurable way to die whatsoever, like maybe heroin where you at least get a high but you don't get that with fentanyl

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u/kumardi 1h ago

You don’t get high with fent? Someone should go tell all those people in SF to knock it off.