John Woods - Is He Getting Better at His Job?

John Woods was an executioner for two years before the Nuremberg trials. He designed and built the gallows from which Nazi war criminals were hanged. Some sources claim he deliberately made the trapdoors of the gallows too small so that the condemned men would hit their heads on the way down. A book by Richard Clark Trowkut Vitz defends Woods's competence as a hangman and gallows designer.