The Hangman of Nuremberg: John C. Woods
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He lied his way into the hangman’s job. He botched executions. He smiled as men struggled for life at the end of a rope. At Nuremberg, John C. Woods became infamous for delivering slow and agonizing deaths to Nazi war criminals. But who was he—and why did he take pleasure in killing?
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