# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-c-woods
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:49.605Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-c-woods"
name: "John C. Woods"
slug: "john-c-woods"
description: "John Clarence Woods was a United States Army master sergeant who, with Joseph Malta, carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of Nazi Germany on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials. Time magazine credited him with 347 executions to that date during a 15-year career."
tagline: "American executioner (1911-1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_C._Woods.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1911-06-05"
deathDate: "1950-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump