John C. Woods

John C. Woods

John Chris Woods (born 1903, San Antonio, Texas - died September 17, 1950 at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands) was an American Master Sergeant and the hangman for the Third United States Army at the Nuremberg Trials.

Together with Joseph Malta, on October 16, 1946, Woods carried out the executions of the ten convicted German Main War Criminals. The executions took place in the gymnasium of Nuremberg Prison.Either Woods or his colleague Malta calculated wrong lengths for the ropes used for the executions, so that several convicts did not die quickly due to a broken neck as intended, but had to suffer a slow and painful death by suffocation. [ [http://quickfound.net/links/legal_news_and_links.html TIME Magazine, October 28, 1946, p. 34] ] [Howard Kingsbury Smith: [http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Nazi-Execution-Smith16oct46.htm The Execution of Nazi War Criminals] . Eyewitness Report.] In addition to that mistake, the trapdoor was too small, so that several convicts suffered bloody head injuries when they hit the trapdoor. [Spiegel Online, [http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/zeitgeschichte/0,1518,459977,00.html "Nürnberger Prozesse: Der Tod durch den Strick dauerte 15 Minuten" (German)] , 16. Januar 2007]

Altogether he hanged 347 criminals in his 15-year career.

Famous convicts hanged by Woods

*Hans Frank
*Wilhelm Frick
*Alfred Jodl
*Ernst Kaltenbrunner
*Wilhelm Keitel
*Joachim von Ribbentrop
*Alfred Rosenberg
*Fritz Sauckel
*Arthur Seyss-Inquart
*Julius Streicher

Martin Bormann was also sentenced in absentia to death by hanging. Although Hermann Goering escaped execution by committing suicide in his cell, his dead body was carried to the execution chamber at Nuremberg.

Woods said after the Nuremberg executions:

And:

Death

Woods was accidentally killed on Eniwetok Island while testing an electric chair. His grave and remains remain unknown.

ee also

*Johann Reichhart

References

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/trctl11/hanging.html Richard Clark: "Hanged by the neck until you are dead."]


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