A little of both, probably. “If we pulled him now, we’d have to admit we made a mistake, and also then we’d have to find a new executioner. What does it matter? They’re going to be dead either way.”
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WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
45 Executions? Sounds like the Army not only didn’t care, but was complicit.
PugJesus@piefed.social 12 hours ago
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I mean, eventually, he can improve by repetition if nothing else. I mean, wasn’t he objectively one of the most experienced executioners in modern history?
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
And the Nuremberg trials were shockingly rife with benefit of the doubt. Some real bastards slipped out by pointing fingers, or were in prison for long enough that the government commuted their sentences.
Nobody who died at Nuremberg was a maybe.
Triasha@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Finding a hangman was not easy in 1945 US army. This guy was a bullshit artist failing upwards. “Oh yeah I can totally tie hangman’s knot”
Nobody wanted to have to find someone else.