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Reasons the Nuremberg executions go wrong in 1946
The execution of the men responsible for the destruction of millions of lives in Nazi Germany was meant to be a swift and controlled act of justice at Nuremberg.
On a cold night in October 1946, inside the prison gym in Nuremberg, the final punishment of the leaders of Nazi Germany, who had been convicted during the Nuremberg trials, was about to be carried out.
But just as the men were about to meet their end, everything changed. One of the biggest Nazis of them all, Hermann Göring, took a cyanide capsule in his cell and cheated the hangman.
Joachim von Ribbentrop followed next.
Master Sergeant John C. Woods, a U.S. Army sergeant, was placed in charge of the executions. However, the execution equipment was poorly constructed. The wooden trapdoors for the hangings were too small and caused problems during the process.
Ribbentrop struggled to die as his full weight suddenly dropped to the length of the rope, with the frame of the trapdoor hitting him in the stomach area and the back of his head.
The same fate met Wilhelm Keitel. His fall was not smooth either, as he also hit the frame of the door, leaving marks on his face.
Many other men followed, including Julius Streicher and others.
The historic Nuremberg trials, intended to hold those responsible for Nazi atrocities accountable, ended with a deeply troubling final scene.
Execution of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss
Execution of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss
Rudolf Höss was hanged on April 16, 1947, in the inner courtyard next to the former crematorium at Auschwitz. Höss was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. There, he was responsible for the deaths of nearly one million Jews and other camp prisoners.
After the war, Höss lived under a false name for a time, but in March 1946 a British team located him. He later testified at the Nuremberg Trials. The Allies handed him over to Poland because Auschwitz was located in Polish territory during the German occupation. Therefore, he was tried in Poland.
Höss wrote his autobiography in his cell, in which he expressed regret for what had happened but denied guilt. He claimed he had only been following orders. In March 1947, the judge found Höss guilty and sentenced him to death.
A chip of steel flew off a piece of drilling equipment on a rig near Seminole, Oklahoma, and went into Wiley Post's left eye
A chip of steel flew off a piece of drilling equipment on a rig near Seminole, Oklahoma, and went into Wiley Post's left eye. Infection set in and the eye had to come out. He was twenty seven years old, a cotton farmer's son out of Van Zandt County with a grade school education, and he had just lost the one thing anybody would have told him a pilot cannot do without.
The state cut him a check for it that fall of 1926. One thousand six hundred and ninety eight dollars and twenty five cents, ordered against the drilling company's insurance carrier. He took every dollar of that settlement and bought a wrecked, second hand Canadian built biplane.
Then he set about learning to see again. He spent roughly two months at his uncle's place in southwest Texas doing almost nothing but practicing depth perception with the eye he had left, teaching himself to judge distance the way the rest of us do it with two. The government licensed him anyway after a probationary stretch of about seven hundred hours.
It is worth saying that he had been jumping out of airplanes before he had ever ridden in one. He heard a flying circus was coming through Wewoka and that their parachute man had been hurt in the previous show, so he volunteered, having never once been off the ground. He made better than a hundred jumps over the next two years, for as much as fifty dollars a show.
Here is what that eye's worth of money finally bought. In 1930 he won the nonstop derby from Los Angeles to Chicago in a hair over nine hours. In 1931 he flew around the world with an Australian navigator in eight days, fifteen hours and fifty one minutes. And in July of 1933 he did it again alone, in seven days, eighteen hours and forty nine minutes, cutting twenty one hours off his own record, sleeping in snatches while a prototype autopilot he had nicknamed Mechanical Mike held the airplane straight. Nobody matched that flight until 1947.
Two years later he flew Burbank to Cleveland, two thousand and thirty five miles in seven hours and nineteen minutes, at moments making a ground speed of three hundred and forty miles an hour in an airplane whose own top speed was a hundred and eighty five. He was riding a river of wind that nobody had figured out how to use yet. He did not discover the jet stream. He was the first man to fly up into it and put it to work.
He died that August in Alaska alongside Will Rogers, in a hybrid airplane he had put together himself out of two wrecks. Twelve thousand movie screens across the country went dark for two minutes.
In 1943, Shoichi Yokoi served in the Imperial Japanese Army on the island of Guam
In 1943, Shoichi Yokoi served in the Imperial Japanese Army on the island of Guam. When US forces invaded the island in 1944, he retreated into the jungle. Because he did not believe reports of peace to be credible, he constructed an underground bunker using BAMBOO and foliage.
All of his fellow soldiers eventually died, and for decades afterward, Yokoi survived entirely ALONE.
Yokoi was discovered by TWO hunters on Guam in January 1972. Upon learning that WWII had already ended twenty-seven years ago, in 1945, HE was stunned to discover this fact.
Upon returning to Japan in February 1972, thousands of people came out in droves to celebrate his survival. After spending thirty years isolated in the jungle, Yokoi struggled to adjust to the hustle and bustle of contemporary URBAN life.
His military experience prevented Yokoi from enjoying his reunion with civilization. Ultimately, he remarried, assumed the role of a farmer, AND maintained anonymity throughout his remaining lifetime
Yokoi's experience demonstrates how powerful the psychological impact of war may be upon an individual.
Two French soldiers after their capture by the Germans near Lille, May 1940.
Two French soldiers after their capture by the Germans near Lille, May 1940.
The visibly distraught West African rifleman is comforted by a fellow soldier whose collar bears the number "38", identifying the 38th Infantry Regiment.
Part of the 25th Motorized Infantry Division, the regiment fought in Belgium before being encircled around Lille, resisting until May 31.
The African soldier probably belonged to a different colonial unit. His identity and the exact location remain unknown, but the photograph (a German soldier who took part in the campaign) captures the human reality of the French Army’s chaotic retreat.
Their names remain unknown.
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Dachau Horror: Reasons the Nazis Froze their Prisoners
One of the most well-known and horrible crimes happened in the process of the Dachau camp between 1942 and 1943 and was conducted by a physician by the name of Sigmund Rascher. He was fascinated with the study of the human body reaction on freezing.
The Military Problem Loss of Nazi pilots in the cold ocean and soldiers in the Russian winter were also becoming an issue. They had the desire to rescue these men. To do so, they chose to determine precisely how much cold a person would take before his heart failed, and how to re-start a body that had gotten close to being frozen.
Human Beings as Lab Rats At Dachau, the prisoners were not treated like humans, but as objects.
- Quite a number of them had to sit in tanks of ice water.
- Some were left out in a freezing night naked. This failed to happen to most of these victims resulting in death as their hearts went dry because of the extreme cold.
Unsuccessful Efforts to warm the Dead To the survivors who did not perish at once, the treatments were no better. The physician attempted to resuscitate them by:
- He threw them into baths of boiling hot water.
- There was the act of using tubes to push hot water into their bodies.
- Making them lie in between people to get body heat.
A Lesson to be Learnt Despite the fact that these crimes were found out after the war, it was obvious that the experiments did not work. The science was bad and the information was false.
Nevertheless, this tragedy transformed the world. It brought about the new laws according to which no doctor can ever test a human being without his/her consent. It showed us that humans should never be treated as instruments regardless of the purpose.
Someone executed by electric chair does not feel pain
Someone executed by electric chair does not feel pain
The process of electrocution is pretty straight forward. You will be strapped into a hard backed wooden chair by leather belts at your wrists, ankles, forearms, chest and waist.
If done properly the sheer force of the electricity should depolarize and destroy your brain and central nervous system followed by disrupting the pacemaker in your heart causing cardiac arrest. By the numbers, an electric chair delivering 10 amps at 2,500 VAC to a convict will deliver 25000 watts of electric power through their body. Electrical energy at these levels is so powerful that it’s almost instantaneously fatal, at least when it comes to brain death. And with the electrical field traveling at the speed of light, the damage is rendered far faster than than the nervous system can record pain or physical sensations. As has been attested to by lineman who have suffered accidental electrocutions but survived, loss of consciousness was instantaneous upon contact with a high voltage source. So, if you’re going to die in a well designed and properly maintained electric chair and executed by a competent executioner, it must be something like a cessation of feeling. In one instant you’re sitting blindfolded in a wooden chair, the sensation of the straps holding you down, the cold wetness of the electrodes then BANG!!! - Unconsciousness and……whatever lies beyond death (if anything).
What happens to your body is, to say the least, unpleasant.
Hollywood productions like The Green Mile or Lonely Hearts portray electrocutions in a dramatic but unrealistic fashion. In the movies, the electric chair makes loud electrical noises with the prisoner screaming, shaking and flopping about during the ordeal. The claim of eyeballs popping out of their sockets is another Hollywood fabrication from the fake electrocution scene in the low budget snuff film Faces of Death. A real life lightning ride to the other side doesn’t look like that. Typically, the chair is eerily quiet during operation; the only sound is the hum of the power supply transformer nearby or the whirring of an auxiliary generator in the prison. The prisoner jerks upright when the first jolt of electricity is applied; the skeletal muscles will tense and contract maximally under the force of the current. Inmates can defecate and urinate uncontrollably, the skin will turn bright red, then white. They can drool or foam at the mouth as well. There are almost always first and second degree burns around and under the sponges from electrothermal heating of the nearby tissue due to the extreme current flux at the electrodes. When the power is shut off the convict slumps down in the chair against the restraints. There will be an odious smell of a mixture of burnt flesh, singed hair, urine and feces in the death chamber.
If the execution is not done properly and with defective equipment, the nightmare only intensifies. The electric chair would be a horrible way to die if unconsciousness is not instantaneous. The sensation of a botched judicial electrocution, I’d guess, must be like a massive, jagged splinter being driven through your entire body followed by the sensation of being on fire after a few seconds. If the sponges are absent or improperly moistened with brine, both they and the skin under them can catch fire. A nightmarish spectacle of electrical arcing between the electrodes and the convicts body can occur as did in the executions of John L Evans and Joseph Tafero in Alabama and Florida, respectively. Oftentimes the electric shocks can leave the body mangled and in a vegetative state. The heart is still beating and the convict still breathing, leaving the prison staff with no other choice but to continue applying jolts of electricity until death occurs. Use of excessive amounts of electric current can cook the flesh on your bones, similar to that of a cooked chicken. The skin can slough off and fall off the meat, and is particularly revolting for the prison staff to deal with post-execution, as they unstrap and remove the dead convict from the chair. Additionally, some doctors have claimed that electrocution may actually stimulate parts of the brain associated with fear and nightmarish imagery. Quite an ominous prospect, especially if the state has to give you 5 or 6 jolts of electricity before you finally die.
There was only one person to have survived an electrocution and been interviewed afterward about the ordeal. Willie Francis, a 17 year old youth, was supposed to be electrocuted for a murder at St Martin’s Parish Jail in Louisiana on May 3, 1946. But a poorly wired portable electric chair and a drunk executioner failed to deliver a shock strong enough to kill him before the generator was damaged. Francis claimed later that the experience was “plum miserable” and that it had made his mouth taste like cold peanut butter and made him hallucinate little pink and blue speckles. He screamed during the ordeal and told his keepers to “TAKE IT OFF!!!!!” as the shock was applied. Francis remained on death row for another year after the botched execution while his lawyers argued that a second attempt to kill their client would violate his Fifth Amendment protection against double jeopardy. Louisiana ex rel Francis v Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) ultimately went before the United States Supreme Court, but in a 5–4 decision, the Court turned down this argument, stating that Francis’ right to protection from double jeopardy had not been violated as his sentence had not yet been carried out. On May 9, 1947, Francis was successfully electrocuted a second time.
How people on death row act on the day of their execution
How people on death row act on the day of their execution
According to some Death Row people I have corresponded with, people are generally quiet and perhaps reflective on their final day.
They know exactly how the day will end for them, and they know (in virtually every case) that there is no possibility of reprieve or postponement. They have had plenty of time to write final letters or notes or poems or anything else, so there is no hurried scribbling.
There are no maudlin farewells and forgivenesses or confessions. No wailing or crying all day. No pronouncing curses, no swearing, no angry outbursts, no complaints about unfairness or innocence. Generally, no conversations except perhaps with a priest or other religious figure.
While every person approaches his execution in his own way, people generally are stoic about it. Some read a Bible or other holy book. Some pray, generally silently. No one tries to be humorous or heroic or memorable. They just wait, patiently, for the end to approach.
There are of course the B-movie depictions of prisoners led to their death screaming or crying or begging, or of people passing out or going limp and having to be dragged. All of that, I have been told by those who watch prisoners go to their death, is Hollywood hokum. People on Death Row have had plenty of time to adjust to their upcoming death, and for many it is something of a relief that the waiting is almost over.
One might suppose that an inmate who has committed very severe or very many crimes, and who believes in Heaven and Hell, would be fearful of his approaching punishment. Evidently that is not so. Consider, as we have all seen, the officers about to be hanged for war crimes, or the director of the Auschwitz concentration camp on the gallows. Those men all were cooperative and stoic and silent, allowing themselves to be executed without resistance or objection. So it is, I am told, for even the most extreme criminals in prison.
And yes, I have read the stories about John Wayne Gacy crying like a baby before his execution. But that is an urban myth. He was unrepentant, to the very last. His actual execution (by lethal injection) was botched, by a clogged tube, delaying the procedure by at least ten minutes. Gary made no objections, but waited quietly for the procedure to be re-started. Instead of crying, his last words were “Kiss my ass”.
“They say” are the opening words of many stories of condemned men swearing at guards, fighting or resisting, breaking down emotionally, vomiting, soiling their pants (though they actually are wearing adult diapers), and other dramatic acts near the end. Impressive Gee Whiz tales, but all untrue. When they know that all the fights and appeals and requests for clemency are all over, they just wait quietly for their turn to die.
Death row inmate chooses to be executed by firing squad over the electric chair
Death row inmate chooses to be executed by firing squad over the electric chair
A man sentenced to death in South Carolina has chosen to be executed by firing squad rather than the electric chair, which would make him the first death row inmate to die by firing squad in the state.
Richard Bernard Moore, 57, would also be the first person executed in South Carolina in more than a decade, as the state has struggled to procure the drugs required to perform lethal injection.
Moore, who was sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of a convenience store clerk, is set to be executed on April 29.
In a court filing Friday, Moore chose to die by firing squad but added in a statement he will not lose hope in two pending court challenges to the constitutionality of the state's death penalty methods.
"I believe this election is forcing me to choose between two unconstitutional methods of execution, and I do not intend to waive any challenges to electrocution or firing squad by making an election," he said in the statement.
He did not have the option of choosing lethal injection, as South Carolina does not have the necessary drugs, according to the filing. The department previously told CNN the state has not been in possession of a usable dose of lethal injection drugs since 2013.
Lindsey Vann, one of Moore's attorneys, told CNN Friday they have asked the state Supreme Court to put the execution on hold in order to give them time to appeal his conviction to the US Supreme Court.
Last year, the South Carolina legislature passed a law which made electrocution the state's primary execution method, though death row prisoners have the option to choose a firing squad or lethal injection instead if the options are available.
On April 6, the South Carolina Supreme Court denied an appeal by Moore which argued his death sentence was disproportionate to penalties imposed in similar cases.
Moore's attorneys previously filed for a stay of his execution in 2020, arguing the state was trying to carry out his execution under a "veil of secrecy midst a global pandemic" and pointing to other states who have delayed executions due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was denied.
South Carolina is one of four states, including Oklahoma, Mississippi and Utah, allowing executions by firing squad.
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Reasons why execution by hanging still exist
Because it works and it is not complicated to do. All you need is a strong enough rope and a strong enough support to hang it from - no more technology than that. No drugs or gas the supplier can cut off the supply of, no high-voltage electric generator, no guns, just a simple rope.
In British practice, the two executioners (who were trained for the purpose) would arrive at the prison the previous day to get the prisoner’s weight, determine the correct length of rope, soak the rope in water, set up the gallows for the correct length of drop and leave the rope hanging overnight with a sandbag hanging on the end to take the stretch out of it. Next morning, the sandbag was removed and the rope readjusted, coiled up and tied with a thread so the noose is hanging at head height. At the appointed time, the executioners entered the condemned cell next to the gallows chamber, the bookcase hiding the connecting door was pushed aside, the prisoner’s arms were strapped to his sides and he was marched through to stand in the gallows chamber directly below the suspension point of the rope. At this point he is standing on a trapdoor. The second executioner strapped his ankles together while the no. 1 executioner hooded and noosed him. Quick look round to ensure nobody is standing on the trap except the prisoner, the no. 1 pulls the lever, the trap opens, the prisoner falls into the room below, and the jerk as the rope reaches full length breaks his neck. The body was then left hanging for an hour to ensure death, though done right he was probably dead almost instantly.
From the prisoner’s point of view, the whole process took less than ten seconds. Possibly the best portrayal of this on film is in 10 Rillington Place. The renowned executioner Albert Pierrepoint advised on the film and made sure it was shown correctly.
Thus the UK’s abolition of the death penalty debates were never about the method. It was a good method. The question was whether it is ever right to execute people, and eventually we decided it isn’t.
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