The Shocking Death Of The Nuremberg Executioner John C Woods

John C Woods is remembered infamously for being the botching executioner of the Nuremberg Trials. He executed some of the most high profile Nazis of Hitler's government and these did not go well at all. But John C Woods had a rather strange death in 1950, and he died changing a lightbulb rather innocuously. But some suggested that this was more sinister than just a simple mistake. It was a strange demise for a man who made his name executing some of the Second World War's most terrible war criminals.
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[@skrag2112]

So the army just took the first person who applied for the job? Sheesh.

[@zingwilder9989]

Apparently, there were other candidates, but Woods boastfully claimed himself to be an expert.

[@nicolettebrown2680]

Then again, what kind of person would want this job?

[@henrypollock7987]

@@nicolettebrown2680a heap of dudes!! Imagine getting revenge for your dead mates plus being a figure in history

[@wtfsalommy3250]

​@@henrypollock7987 No doubt

[@a1guy524]

nazis. who cares.

[@zingwilder9989]

I also believe he was promoted from Private to Master Sergeant when he accepted the Executioner position. Hence, he saw the money and rank, as well.

[@DanW-nk7sn]

He also avoided the fate of thousands of other soldiers who were killed, maimed spent time in POW camps or at best, lived uncomfortably on the front for months.

[@zingwilder9989]

@@DanW-nk7sn Certainly.

[@clickbaitcharlie2329]

Getting ordered about, by paperclip scientists, must have been a treat for him?..

[@postie9434]

if you read Pierrepoint's story it was written that if you have done it right the body falls straight and thier is no swinging on the rope

[@georgepatterson3428]

There

[@neilpk70]

He was a professional. This guy wasn't.

[@EndingSimple]

@@neilpk70 I heard that Montgomery brought Pierrepoint over to do Britain's executions specifically because of Wood's spectacular incompetence.

[@willieckaslike]

As I said earlier, Pierrepoint, was a professional, who had probably forgotten more about hanging than WOODS would ever know. Unless of course as he himself said, "I strangled the bastards" !

[@Turnipstalk]

@@EndingSimple Churchill wrote to him and asked him to do the job because he would do it humanely. Pierrepoint was opposed to the death penalty and did not want anybody else to have to do it. It was said he could carry out an execution in 13 seconds and the victim barely knew what was happening.

[@dodgermartin4895]

What confuses me... this guy went into the army in 1943, and in 1946 he held the rank of master sergeant, 2nd highest enlisted rank...which is an astonishing achievement. And being given poor fitness reports as well.

[@angelzipp]

That's how military works, in reality. Forget what you saw in Hollywood movies.

[@mercuriall2810]

There are reports that he was elevated to the rank (and pay) of Master Sergeant when he became an executioner.

[@dodgermartin4895]

@@angelzipp It doesn't work that way in today's US military, at least not at that speed it doesn't. You ain't gonna make E-8 no way now how in 3 yrs. I've seen shitbird E-7s pass over a good E-7 within the same promotion zone, but they ain't ever gonna promote someone to E-8 from lower than E-7.

[@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger]

He failed upward, you can be a fuck up but if you last long enough your the only guy available for promotion. Also remember it’s during a war, the guy above may have been moved or killed allowing space for upward mobility

[@nicolettebrown2680]

A lot of guys were promoted quickly during the war.

[@robertsmith-dr5tm]

He looks like the kind of kid nobody would ever sit next to in the school lunchroom

[@LemonHead-sq5ws]

Wtf is a lunchroom only a lonely nerd calls a cafeteria a lunchroom lol

[@WVgirl1959]

​@@LemonHead-sq5wsyou do know that lunchroom is another word for cafeteria, and that not all people use the same descriptive words?😂

[@clickbaitcharlie2329]

Cafeteria was school, lunch rooms were at work. (Bring your own food, or buy at the cafeteria/smoko truck, for the lunchroom, in my experience).. not seen the Indian movie "the luncbox"?, (a vast delivery system , of home cooked meals, delivered to the workplace, and eaten in a lunchroom).. Cultural thing, I guess..

[@RyDeezy]

How ironic that these Nazis get handed over to an incompetent executioner only to result in extreme agony that normally cannot be legally inflicted.

[@nicolettebrown2680]

Diabolical in a way.

[@enrkm85]

​@@nicolettebrown2680 Well, think about the ppl they imprisoned, starved and beat. to die slowly over months than a few extra minutes.

[@user-xh3lz9xt4l]

Most US troops were executed at Shepton Mallet by Albert Pierrpoint

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Pretty sure MOST US troops returned home after the war.

[@user-xh3lz9xt4l]

@@chuckschillingvideos sorry I meant the Us criminals not normal GI s

[@MakerInMotion]

In WW1 they used firing squads. I don't know why they switched to the gallows when men qualified to shoot were abundant.

[@markochs2495]

Could he change a lightbulb?

[@klvr5863]

Dude couldn't even change a light bulb? Well, he did work for the Government!

[@ATXviIIIe]

Good government is the reason the allies worked in coordination to defeat fascists

[@dumpedclutch8429]

@@ATXviIIIe there is no such thing as a "good" government.

[@WVgirl1959]

True

[@Clippidyclappidy]

Makes me think that “Are we the baddies” skit was more of a documentary than a satirical comedy.

[@spotty67]

@@dumpedclutch8429 Guess you haven't seen a bad one.

[@ozzyaustin9574]

I go out of my way to like every one of your videos, even when the subject isn't as interesting to me (like 90% of them are) I can just tell how much hard work you put into your content, it shows. Keep on making videos my friend, I'll keep on smashing the thumbs up button

[@joshyaks]

How many incompetent executioners does it take to change a lightbulb?

[@dennisbrinckley4474]

one?

[@quintonlloyd2393]

😂😂😂

[@mitseraffej5812]

Hang on, I’ll get back to you on that one.

[@darkknight1340]

What's a lightbulb?.

[@jameshowell1214]

about 2

[@donlum9128]

Oh well

[@maureentuohy8672]

Did he “miscalculate” or did he do it on purpose?

[@michaeltoohey1385]

I doubt that he was capable of any calculation, but yes, botched on purpose.

[@angelgray8899]

Secret genius?

[@BigMek456]

The allies were efficient at doing horrible stuff and portraying themselves as the good guys

[@MrEricmopar]

Changing a light bulb? I was an electrician, and even if the switch was on, you shouldn't get a shock from a light bulb change, unless the hot wire was wired to the outer threaded part of the bulb socket, rather than the center conductor in the socket... IE the socket had to be wired backwards...

[@drengr2759]

it wasn't a light bulb. There are too many stories going around to know for sure, but the plausible story is that he was trying to repair a damaged power cord. The light bulb thing is just to make him seem more stupid. I think he was obviously stupid, but the people who hired him, promoted him, and kept him in that position were far more stupid than he was. The only possibility that they were not stupid, is if they chose an incompetent fool because they knew he would "botch" the hangings. I just assume the "mistakes" were 100% intentional, either by him or his superiors, knowing his capabilities (or lack thereof).

[@user-qs7gx7rp7m]

All that expense for fancy chairs when a tin tub & a light bulb would do ?

[@martkbanjoboy8853]

I can imagine a fictitious movie about his exploits starring Slim Pickens as Woods.

[@ninjacat777]

Kangaroo court with confessions made under torture. People who believe those trials were fair and just, could also be convinced that the moon is made of cheese.🙄

[@terrieormonde2340]

☢️

[@nealbeach4947]

So you want everyone to get all Boo Hooey over fuuking Nazis?

[@SafiaGray]

The Germans kept detailed documentation of their plans and these guys were high profile. You are drinking the Koolaid, sad for you.

[@trevormillar1576]

20 minutes to die? The Russians made sure Amon Goth took longer than that. But then he was a uniquely evil man.

[@zeedustrakok]

Yeah, but with the Russians it was a deliberate decision from the state, for woods it was his own choice/ incompetence against the official punishment of torture.

[@r39erzz6]

​@@zeedustrakok imagine feeling for nazis

[@chuckbuckbobuck]

So, the psychopath hanged the psychopaths.

[@lore9446]

In fact!!!

[@joehagen8854]

Psychopath. Is. Correct Said he had. Hanged. Men and Women. In the death. Chamber. Texas. U S. Government. Failed to. Take a Closed. Look at woods. Idea Of being an executioner. It was nill. All. Woods seen was instant. Promotion plus. A bigger. Wage. One those. He hanged took. 40. Minutes to Die

[@joehagen8854]

The. Way. Woods. Did. Execute. Nazis. A Pierrepoint Looked upon woods as. Inexperienced. And had a proper idea the man definitely Had never. Hanged. Any one He seen. Promotion. And more Cash😊

[@michaelwicks7680]

What comes around goes around, shocking 😮

[@boondocker7964]

No, what goes around, comes around.

[@RobertRobinson-dy3rj]

He botched his own Death 🪱

[@daveanderson3805]

He made a hopeless botch of the executions. Compare his idiocy with the professionalism of Albert Pierrepont. He wasn't fit to be a member of the military in any capacity, much less as a senior NCO. I don't understand how he got away with his lies and incompetence, especially seeing as he got thrown out of the navy. Makes you think about recruiting procedures at the time.

[@jonathannixon8652]

At that time in history they needed masses of men to join the ranks under the high brass

[@walterkreuzman3802]

probably it was a job nobody wanted. It takes a psycho to do this work.

[@donlunn792]

@@walterkreuzman3802Believe me Albert Pierrepoint was no psycho. He was, and his father before him a Professional. Albert was a Publican in Swindon in the UK. Apparently he had a sign behind the Bar that said “No Hanging around the Bar” Albert was the foremost Executioner at the Nuremberg Trials. He always Judged the weight of the people he Hanged. And he always inspected the rope. His aim was to cause them the least amount of distress possible. His estimate is if I remember correctly two minutes between him seeing the person and pulling the trap door. His ropes were always stretched and tested before the Hanging by bags of sand. He was a professional. The British Government would have had no other.

[@macflod]

Maybe they were desperate

[@pewong7551]

Why the mystery, look at our CEO's and politicians!😂

[@johnwiks2597]

Most people can stomach cruelty to an evil person, while failing to see that they show the same evil capacity in doing so. What does it cost to show mercy, to an enemy who is going to die(rightfully so)? Why take satisfaction from the destruction of another? Did they not take the same satisfaction in destroying others, for which they were condemned? You judge and condemn yourselves as well.

[@gingerbreadman6657]

There were no tears, shed for John C. Woods LOL !

[@r39erzz6]

Yes the Nazis suffered too much! I feel so bad for the ones who started the holocaust, and started world war II. Obvious sarcasm,

[@gingerbreadman6657]

@@r39erzz6 He also executed American soldiers, condemned to die. I would guess, they also died a low and agonizing death.

[@philheath9854]

So he caused Nazis to suffer their executions,So what ?

[@leeweesquee]

Regardless of who's being executed, you don't lower yourself to their level.

[@philheath9854]

@@leeweesquee You don’t speak for me.”An Eye for an Eye”,

[@Dasistrite]

​@@philheath9854What did these men do to deserve suffering death? Can you tell me?

[@kaseythornton8155]

There's justice and there's revenge. Some people think the two are one in the same. Others don't. That's the main line separating the people in the comments, here. "Cruel and unusual" is a thing we try to avoid in America, but some people think there are villains in this world who deserve the worst. It's just a different belief, and that's okay.

[@philheath9854]

@@Dasistrite So you didn’t watch the video and you have never heard about Nazis.

[@burtonedwards2120]

How did he make it to Master Sergeant?

[@johnkelly3886]

By understanding what a wink and a nod meant, when he was told, don't mess up the calculations.

[@DanW-nk7sn]

If they wanted an unqualified soldier to do this, they could have promoted one of many thousands who risked their lives in the war rather than reward a psycho who got fat and stayed warm and dry in the rear

[@user-tc3yg4ls3i]

It’s says he landed on Omaha, is that not true?

[@cineris2389]

During the landing his unit had 24 casualties so it does sound like he landed on the 6th at Omaha, that wasn't a cake walk for anyone involved. SO yeah, nothing you said is accurate, he was also in Normandy until Sep of 44. Before taking the executioner job. If he was a combat engineer through all of that, he likely saw quite a bit of combat during those months as well, that was a tough advance through rough terrain, engineers had some of the toughest jobs during that. They had to clear the hedges which were inundated with German machine guns and ambushers.

[@reedy_9619]

On the other hand, do you really want this dude with you when you re getting shot at? Better keep him somewhere in a closet

[@Doctor_ko]

He landed on d-day, lol. That alone was more combat than most saw during ww2.

[@allenjenkins7947]

The UK Government would not permit the US military to carry out executions by hanging on British soil, as their methods were considered inefficient and unnecessarily cruel. Most were carried out on their behalf on proper British gallows by proper British hangman, usually Albert Pierrepoint. There is an official US Army film of the executions at Landsberg Prison, where John C. Woods can be seen alternating with a dapper looking man dressed in grey pinstripe trousers and a black jacket, typical of a middle-level British civil servant. I have assumed that this was Mr Pierrepoint. It was interesting, in a morbid way to watch the differences in technique. Woods used a very heavy canvas hood and placed the slipnot at the back of the condemned's neck, whereas Pierrepoint used a light hood and placed the knot below the condemned's jaw so as to guarantee a broken neck and a swift death. Both were psychopaths in my opinion, but only Woods was a sadist.

[@tomf9568]

In 1968, I lived for a time in Saint Louis in a rooming house on West Pine. An Army 😮veteran of the European Front of World War II also rented a room there, and he told me stories about serving with Woods. In particular the man told of marching condemned American soldiers to the gallows and being under orders to shoot to kill if the prisoner broke away and tried to run. Maybe it was considered a humanitarian thing to do rather than to catch the man and force him to continue the walk to his hanging. It seems to me that the man who talked about this must have been an M.P., a Military Policeman. Once the prisoner was on the gallows platform, with the noose around his neck, Woods would say to him, “You are sentenced to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead”. Then he would open the trap doors to drop the man to his death. The story teller told me that he heard from other veterans that Woods was transferred to the Pacific Theater and there began work on an electric chair to perform executions. The story was that Woods had prisoners helping with the work, and was deliberately killed by electrocution while in contact with wiring that was switched to “hot” by a prisoner. A comment on one of the comments: in England and Ireland , the word “electrocution” does not necessarily mean getting a fatal shock, as it does in the U.S., but simply getting an electric shock.

[@mrdog2019]

Oddball

[@janlindtner305]

👍👍👍

[@fredwardkillhappy3008]

Poetic that his incompetence also brought about his own premature end.

[@mrwonderful2142]

It's not a tumor -Adolf Schwarzenegger

[@JAWS-7675]

He favors Robin Williams 😂

[@wtfsalommy3250]

_"he was just following orders"_

[@Dasistrite]

Literally. USGI Trooper does not follow orders and he might get shot by own troopers. Same for German soldiers.

[@bradleymayberry9060]

Literally shocking....

[@1234novas]

US soldiers were executed at Shepton Mallett prison in England by Pierrepoint. An interesting story for you in the future.

[@Kynos1]

Literally shocking.

[@HenryEspinal-xg4lj]

Was this the xecutioner a JEW? I THINK SO

[@RovingTroll]

I was gonna say breath taking

[@ringo1692]

Really gonna call him out for making Nazis suffer during their execution? Really???

[@Thisisnolongerajoke]

Wood conducts electricity.?

[@goofyfoot2001]

Yes if it isn't totally dry.

[@Hunne2303]

🤣

[@marks6663]

Can you imagine being executed because you were the editor of a newspaper? Lol

[@johnkelly3886]

He was executed for being the editor of a newspaper that incited the holocaust. There are limits to freedom of speech. And, don't you forget.

[@marks6663]

@@johnkelly3886 no, there are limits to your actions there are no limits to freedom of speech. And don't you forget.

[@johnkelly3886]

@@marks6663 There are even limits on the right to life, more so the freedom of speech. The speech of the Nazi propagandists were materially causative of WWII and the holocaust. The Weimar Republic failed in its duty to suppress such incitement. It is time to throw off the primitive jurisprudence of the eighteenth century. If the US maintains a doctrine of absolute rights, it will go the same way as the Weimar Republic. Scots and Roman Dutch law have progressed to a view of rights, as being a dependency network of mutually supporting and constraining rights.

[@thug588]

​@@johnkelly3886 he wrote a newspaper for the people, supposedly only the military knew anything about the h caust, how would he be inciting it

[@johnkelly3886]

@@thug588 The propaganda encouraged ordinary people to blamed, fear, hate, de-humanized, monster, socially isolate, ghettoized, assaulted, brutalized and murder the Jews and others. When they were publicly brutalized and coerced, when they disappeared from society, from the ghettos, few objections were heard, few questions were asked. All this should be familiar: this is what the thinly disguised neo-fascists are doing to gay and trans people to day.

[@forwhatitsworth9958]

So… why was an E-8 changing a light bulb?…

[@johnkelly3886]

??????????????????

[@forwhatitsworth9958]

Woods was an E-8 in the Army. They are high level mangers. Not light bulb changers.

[@zeedustrakok]

@@forwhatitsworth9958I’d never call an NCO high level manager. Either mid level or the assistant of a high level manager.

[@forwhatitsworth9958]

@@zeedustrakokE-8 is a SNCO.

[@jamiem3628]

"miscalculated"...."botched"..😂😂😂

[@Gennettor-nc8kx]

9:20 "Electrocuted AND killed" - good heavens.....😂😂😂

[@tubthump]

According to most definitions someone can be electrocuted and injured

[@geoffboxell9301]

I've been electrocuted and I am still alive - there seems to be a different understanding of the word by Americans.

[@Gennettor-nc8kx]

@@geoffboxell9301 "Electrocuted" means "killed by means of electricity". You've had an "electric shock" (like most people have had in their lives) which is totally different. However, my remark was meant as a joke - which obviously you did not get.

[@geoffboxell9301]

@@Gennettor-nc8kx Only in America! Cultural differences. "We are one people separated by a common language".

[@Gennettor-nc8kx]

@@geoffboxell9301 And by a sense of humor.

[@yesm2302]

Wow! Our dumb bureaucracy was alive and well back then. Feel sorry for the condemned U.S. servicemen but was divine intervention for the Nazis

[@kingofenglandthethir]

A bit oldie testament…nah , no devil in devine.

[@DonBair]

How is being electrocuted , "Innocuous"?

[@grantsmythe8625]

Say what you will, anyone who willingly chooses to be an executioner for the state is a man with a very dark heart.

[@EndingSimple]

Traditionally in Europe, executioners where pariahs in their home towns. An executioner came from a family of executioners and these families were generally shunned by all other walks of life. They wore a mask so the relatives of the executed person could not tell which of them had actually done the deed.

[@grantsmythe8625]

@@EndingSimple That is very interesting. Thank you for it. The fact that the executioners were willing to wear masks tells the whole story: they cared not for others nor for themselves. Dark people.

[@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733]

​@@grantsmythe8625majority of the executed were innocent, just to add to the sinister nature of it all

[@grantsmythe8625]

@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Many innocent people throughout history have been unjustifiably imprisoned or executed. Many thousands have faced a very lonely, despairing unjust fate.

[@ObservantHistorian]

I really like your work. The college professor in me has one constructive criticism: In your scripts, notice the frequency with which you use "and" to connect phrases. The flow of your script will in most cases benefit from separating each point/phrase into its own sentence, dispensing with the "and" connector. Consider that the "connector" leads the listener to think the next phrase is directly related to what was just said, when often that's not the case as your story goes along. Instead, it's kind of like a verbal tick, if you apply the analogy to writing! 🙃 Just a minor thought that crossed my mind - you have solid scripts, good work, and good production.

[@TheSmitty60]

He probably didn’t want to say, that he had participated in lynchings.

[@fishpants3877]

"What do ya mean 'botched'? He's dead isn't he?" -John C. Woods.

[@privatedetective6516]

Karma is Real. A light bulb? He stepped on a high voltage generator cable. This story has apparently changed over the years.

[@alexadam353]

John C. Woods is in Hell.

[@mgaeeeee9150]

Yeah, he was no better than the ones he was hanging.

[@BlasphemousBill2023]

Not much of an electrician either.

[@joesalyers]

I read about the American Hero John C Woods in a book called "Good enough for Government work", it said in a little add on at the end of his story that "John Woods could have only been better if he had just leaned on a shovel and let the Nazis choke to death on the rope while telling sports stories to them, that would have been more like a modern Federal worker."

[@brendasg155]

I bet you're a big fan of Ted bundy as well

[@williambeatty7781]

Working for the government is the only place this guy could thrive. Incompetence is award and promoted in the government. If you hang around long enough you may even become president.

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Are we supposed to feel sympathy for the Nazi murderers?

[@ChadBoss-qr4hl]

OK, I got one.. stop me if you heard this... How many Executioners does it take to change a lightbulb? Apparently, more than one.

[@user-qh4uo7kt3h]

Oh he botched the executions....... what a shame....

[@mstevens113]

Shocking.

[@bazzmcfury9550]

To be fair, those nazis had karma come calling, except in this case, it had a name and face.

[@JoeytheJerk]

I hope you don't want us to feel bad for the tyrants responsible for WW2 and 50 million deaths

[@CT-FIVEFIVEFIVEFIVE]

Bro botched the execution of nazis? Based

[@alanbbrady8196]

Pot calling the kettle Beige 😅😅😅

[@JohnJarpe]

I heard a lecture taped at the International Spy Museum from a psychoanalysist named Joel Dimsdale who had done a study of the Nuremberg defendants based Rorschach test results performed while the men had been in captivity. Dimsdale, who I believe was at Harvard, said that a number of years before he his study, had been visited in his office by a man who dumped off a stack of paperwork ( that I believe regarded himself ) and said something to the effect that he was the killer and that he had not regretted a thing. I Don't recall if Dimsdale's lecture made anymore mention of this man or this episode for certain but I am leaning against but Dimsdale would be easy enough to track down if it was an area of sufficient interest to you. By the way I like your videos and I believe that I am a subscriber if not I will be in a matter of seconds!

[@Dr_GraysGhost_420]

Oh dang.. they suffered

[@captainsleeman9787]

All the details attended to by the Allied forces and they come up with this muppet?

[@gwine9087]

Woods was either incompetent, a sadist or both.

[@Xonid1]

He was killed by electrocution. A method we later used for executions. Is that irony?

[@Hunne2303]

nah, just a tragedy viewed via a mirror... "bbbzzzzzzzTT!"

[@finaloption...]

Oops, my bad. 😅

[@bursartpark9320]

What a beast!

[@user-mm8vb3iy6y]

A good hammer would help.

[@Za7a7aZ]

Either his supiriors knew he would make nazis suffer and used woods for being able to deny being responsible or it was simple karma applied by the universe for these nazis.

[@billschiller6649]

Or just plain karma. Karma can be a bitch…

[@Yamaha38XCRacer]

Yeah, you don’t want karma’s after you!! Karma is pretty bad, karma’s even worse type of karma…

[@oldcremona]

this is a supirior comment

[@catdaddy2643]

Is that how karma works?

[@MrWarhead16]

What if what you have said is both correct?

[@edwardfritz8262]

they got off lightly !!

[@Mshi-]

No

[@kendigjl]

I remember when I was in the Army, sitting in a room full of other soldiers. A sergeant can in the room and announced that the Army was looking for volunteers to process large amounts of corpses. There was a warning about the likely long term psychological effects the job would cause to anyone who accepted a position. I'm so glad I knew better than to volunteer. But somewhere, someone must have volunteered - and now they're either probably completely insane or dead. Because if the Army is warning you about the psychological toll a job is going to have on you - you know it's going to be bad. I imagine this hangman job was filled in a similar way. Some Army brass needed a "special" volunteer and they found this psychopath, who was willing to say whatever the Army needed him to say in order to absolve themselves of guilt.

[@StackSnackies]

He didn't perform poorly at all. He did everything he could to get some semblance of justice for their crimes under the system he was bound to. MstSgt Woods was hella based.

[@SafiaGray]

Love the video title⚡️

[@Moose975]

Boo-hoo

[@pozzee2809]

Okay he was an useless executioner, BUT you have to question who put him in that position And left him in that position 🤔. I am thinking no one cared.

[@AbnEngrDan]

I knew a WWII vet who knew him personally. The story I got was that he got orders from high up to make their deaths painful. Fake credentials? Maybe so. But I trust my old friend's story.

[@charliemclean6931]

The nazis died slowly?….is this a problem??

[@kaseythornton8155]

There's justice and there's revenge. Some people think the two are one in the same. Others don't. That's the main line separating the people in the comments, here. "Cruel and unusual" is a thing we try to avoid in America, but some people think there are villains in this world who deserve the worst. It's just a different belief, and that's okay.

[@imustbecrazy5626]

I know this narrator. What other channels does he read for?

[@knivesloveliberty9329]

It’s a condition to be defiant to “ authority” ? I’ve only heard that from “authority”.

[@AnthonyRusso93]

Consequences of lying on your resume? It is getting awarded the position.

[@rottenhead8385]

9:05 Innocuous. Meaning: harmless, having no adverse effect, not likely to offend..certainly not a description of death, goofball! He was killed innocuously? Just stop.

[@1Independentrider]

Was it botched or was it retribution?

[@GamingKeenBeaner]

This guy is like a dark, yet real life version of Forest Gump

[@devdeckardCain]

Is it beyond belief that the government knew that he wasn't qualified? Knew that he didn't follow orders and THATS why he was chosen for the job? We already know that a lot of soldiers killed germans on the spot after they saw the concentration camps, who's to say that this isn't also revenge?

[@kudosiafirstbutyoutubestoleit]

Interesting but man the narrating is painful to listen to

[@anonymike8280]

Shocking death? Shocking death? Get it? Get it?

[@GlossaME]

Just like the trials, a play pretend with dire consequences.

[@stvargas69]

Proof that the Armys old slogan Be All You Can Be was inspired by Woods

[@trevorsloan2047]

What a stupid report

[@tannerrinker5499]

The saying "Pulling my leg". Comes from the hanging of people.

[@American_Inquisition]

IDK about all of this. Given the lack of immediate information available today, the fact that they could not verify his information back then, or even if they tried, is not that surprising. The last person hung in the USA was about 20miles from where I write this, Wilmington Delaware. So, as far as “botching” the hangings , IDK if that is the case; the over 500 men & women hung during the American Civil War all followed a procedure and “drop charts” as these were public at the time and they didn’t want the miscreant to kick & thrash about if the drop wasn’t sufficient or decapitate the individual if drop was too far. The noose needed exact construction (knots) and distance based on sex & body weight. Side note: Delaware had their “Whipping Post” removed from the prison yard in 1972….NINETEEN SEVENTY TWO !!

[@ATR-Bigoz]

Thank you John C Woods

[@r.williamcomm7693]

Clickbait. One sentence at the end about him being electrocuted while changing a lightbulb is not worthy of that title. Clicked on “do not recommend …”

[@ososkid]

This is just about the perfect A24 psychological horror movie

[@stephencunniffe823]

I think it's also made worse on account of how good the British executioner was. That man was horrifically successful...That said I have never understood why the Americans pushed for woods so much considering how bad he was at it. Like the witnesses had to have been traumatised from it.

[@britann0]

I don’t believe anyone should suffer in death but to be fair, it was still more mercy than many of the Nazis showed the victims that landed them there.