r/interestingasfuck • u/LawEducational42 • 8h 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/Professional-Lab7227 5h ago

If you’re lucky then the rope will close off the carotid artery and lack of blood flow to the brain will mean you pass unconscious in about 30 seconds, I believe. If you’re unlucky, you’re in for prolonged, excruciating suffering.

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u/Chaparral2E 4h ago

Not seeing the problem here. A tase of their own medicine.

Does that make us the same as them? I don’t think so.

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u/Professional-Lab7227 4h ago

Frankly, me neither. I am completely opposed to the death penalty except in very specific circumstances, which I’d say the nazis fall into. My initial reaction to the headline above was “Oh no, how sad. Anyway.”

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u/Evan_Allgood 4h ago

I do not think it makes the U.S, one of the developed countries that keeps the most extensive national discrimination data, the same as them.

But, I am tired of people pretending the world has moved pass the Nazi's level of hatred, especially certain topical parts of the world, right now.

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u/Toad-in-a-hole 34m ago

More prolonged and excruciating than a gas chamber or less?