May 24, 1911 - John C. Woods
The executioner at Nuremberg occupies an unusual place in the historical record — a functionary whose professional work intersected with one of the twentieth century's most consequential acts of judicial reckoning. Woods carried out the hangings of ten convicted Nazi leaders following the Nuremberg trials, work that placed him at the precise moment when international law attempted to hold state-sanctioned mass atrocity to account. His career total, as reported at the time, reached into the hundreds, making him one of the most prolific executioners in U.S. military history.
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John Clarence Woods (June 5, 1911 – July 21, 1950) was a United States Army master sergeant who, with Joseph Malta, carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of Nazi Germany on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials. Time magazine credited him with 347 executions to that date during a 15-year career.
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