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?br 🎥br Learn more about executioner John C. Woods on World History TV, in the film ‘The Hangman of Nuremberg: John C.