List of people who were executed

Murder

Frank Abbandando (d. 1942)

Jack Alderman (d. 2007)

Peter Anthony Allen (d. 1964)

Stephen Wayne Anderson (d. 2002)

James Arcene (d. 1885) robbery and murder

Manny Babbitt (d. 1999)

Billy Bailey (d. 1996)

Jereboam O. Beauchamp (d. 1826)

Noah Beauchamp (d. 1842)

Derek Bentley (d. 1953) pardoned

Kenneth Biros (d. 2009)

William Bonin (d. 1996)

Ted Bundy (d. 1989)

Elizabeth Butchill (d. 1780)

Frederick Bywaters (d. 1923)

Charles Campbell (d. 1994)

Beatrice Cenci (d. 1599)

Oba Chandler (d. 2011)

Dhananjoy Chatterjee (d. 2004)

Andrei Chikatilo (d. 1994)

John Christie (d. 1953)

Styllou Christofi (d. 1954)

James Lee Clark (d. 2007)

Wilbert Coffin (d. 1956)

Flor Contemplación (d. 1995)

Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (d. 1910)

Ruth Ellis (d. 1955) last woman hanged in Britain

Gwynne Owen Evans (d. 1964)

John Louis Evans (d. 1983)

Timothy Evans (d. 1950) pardoned

Jason Fairbanks (d. 1801)

Albert Fish (d. 1936)

Joseph Paul Franklin (d. 2013)

John Wayne Gacy (d. 1994)

Juan Garza (d. 2001)

Gary Gilmore (d. 1977)

Barbara Graham (d. 1955)

Jack Gilbert Graham (d. 1957)

John George Haigh (d. 1949)

James Hanratty (d. 1962)

Bruno Hauptmann (d. 1936)

Robert Alton Harris (d. 1992)

Joe Hill (d. 1915)

Paul Jennings Hill (d. 2003)

Ned Kelly (d. 1880) and bank robbery

William Kemmler (d. 1890)

LaGrand brothers (d. 2001) and armed robbery

Teresa Lewis (d. 2010)

Raymond Lisenba (d. 1942) last person hanged in California

Arthur Lucas (d. 1962) one of the last two criminals to be hanged in Canada

Harry Pierpont (d. 1934)

Guenther Podola (d. 1959) last person hanged in UK for killing a policeman

Tommy Lynn Sells (d. 2014)

Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (d. 1760)

Charles Starkweather (d. 1959)

Mamoru Takuma (d. 2004)

Edith Thompson (d. 1923)

Karla Faye Tucker (d. 1998)

Ronald Turpin (d. 1962) one of the last two criminals to be hanged in Canada

Jerry White (d. 1995)

Stanley Williams (d. 2005)

Aileen Wuornos (d. 2002)

Assassination

Nathuram Godse (d. 1949) Assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

George Atzerodt (d. 1865) conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln

John Bellingham (d. 1812)

Charlotte Corday (d. 1793)

Leon Czolgosz (d. 1901) assassination of US President William McKinley

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, (Iran, September 15, 1982) conspiracy

Charles Guiteau (d. 1882) assassination of US President James A. Garfield

David Herold (d. 1865) conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln

Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (d. 1944) conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler

Lewis Payne (d. 1865) conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln and attempted assassination of US Secretary of State William Seward

Claus von Stauffenberg (d. 1944) attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler

Adam von Trott zu Solz (d. 1944) conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler

U Saw (d. 1948)

Nguyen Van Troi (d. 1964) attempted assassination of Robert McNamara and future ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Mary Surratt (d. 1865) conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln

Fanni Kaplan (d. 1918) attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin

Giuseppe Zangara (d. 1933) assassination of Chicago mayor Anton Cermak

Huang Yiguang (d. 1940) attempted assassination of Wang Jingwei

Jean Bastien-Thiry (d. 1963) attempted assassination of President of France Charles de Gaulle

Deposed leaders and families

Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong (d. 1979)

Akwasi Afrifa (d. 1979)

Friedrich Akel (d. 1941)

Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold (d. 1974)

Marie Antoinette (d. 1793) ruling class

Ion Antonescu (d. 1946)

Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (d. 1970)

Joseph Bamina (d. 1965)

Madame du Barry (d. 1793) ruling class

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (d. 1979)

Maurice Bishop (d. 1983)

Eugen Bolz (d. 1945)

Elena Ceaușescu (d. 1989) ruling class

Nicolae Ceaușescu (d. 1989)

King Charles I of England (d. 1649)

Samuel K. Doe (d. 1990)

Alois Eliáš (d. 1942)

Madame Elisabeth (d. 1793) ruling class

Endelkachew Makonnen (d. 1974)

Bogdan Filov (d. 1945)

Muammar Gaddafi (d. 2011)

Lady Jane Grey (d. 1554) and heresy

Amir Abbas Hoveida (Iran, April 7, 1979)

Agustín de Iturbide (d. 1823)

Jüri Jaakson (d. 1942)

Évariste Kimba (d. 1966)

Long Boret (d. 1975)

King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)

Patrice Lumumba (d. 1961)

Francisco Macías Nguema (d. 1979)

Alphonse Massamba-Débat (d. 1977)

Maximilian of Mexico (d. 1867)

Miguel Miramón (d. 1867)

Francisco Morazán (d. 1842)

Joachim Murat (d. 1815)

Benito Mussolini (d. 1945)

Imre Nagy (d. 1958)

Mohammad Najibullah (d. 1996)

Nicholas II and family (d. 1918)

Jöran Persson (d. 1568)

Vidkun Quisling (d. 1945)

Saddam Hussein (d. 2006)

Crown Prince Sado (d. 1762)

Nuri as-Said (d. 1958)

Mohammad Musa Shafiq (d. 1979)

Sisowath Sirik Matak (d. 1975)

Aleksandar Stamboliyski (d. 1923)

Ferenc Szálasi (d. 1946)

Jozef Tiso (d. 1947)

Diarra Traoré (d. 1985)

Gualberto Villarroel (d. 1946)

William Walker (d. 1860)

William Wallace (d. 1305)

Wen Tianxiang (d. 1283)

Political opponents

Amir Sjarifuddin (d. 1948)

Nikos Beloyannis (d. 1952)

Lavrenty Beria (d. 1953)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (d. 1945)

Jacques Pierre Brissot (d. 1793)

Nikolay Bukharin (d. 1938)

Francisco Caamaño (d. 1973)

Wilhelm Canaris (d. 1945)

Vladimír Clementis (d. 1952)

Galeazzo Ciano (d. 1944)

Georges Danton (d. 1794)

Camille Desmoulins (d. 1794)

Joseph Garang (d. 1971)

Andreas Hofer (d. 1810)

Milada Horáková (d. 1950)

Lev Kamenev (d. 1935)

Traicho Kostov (d. 1949)

William Laud (d. 1645) and treason

Pierre Laval (d. 1945)

Olympe de Gouge (d. 1793)

Antoine Lavoisier (d. 1794)

Faisal bin Musa'id (d. 1975)

Abdel Khaliq Mahjub (d. 1971)

Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1587)

Qazi Mohammad (d. 1947)

Umar al-Mukhtar (d. 1931)

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (d. 1619)

Hans Oster (d. 1945)

Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu (d. 1954)

Patrick Henry Pearse (d. 1916)

Nikola Petkov (d. 1947)

László Rajk (d. 1949)

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (d. 1541)

Maximilien Robespierre (d. 1793)

Aleksey Rykov (d. 1930)

Karl Sack (d. 1945)

Louis de Saint-Just (d. 1794)

Ken Saro-Wiwa (d. 1995)

Sophie Scholl (d. 1943)

Khudiram Bose (d. 1908)

Satyendranath Basu (d. 1908)

Manoranjan Sengupta (d. 1915)

Niren Dasgupta (d. 1915)

Gopinath Saha (d. 1924)

Promode Ranjan Chaudhury (d. 1927)

Rajendra Lahiri (d. 1927)

Ramprasad Bismil (d. 1927)

Ashfaqulla Khan (d. 1927)

Roshan Singh (d. 1927)

Bhagat Singh (d. 1931)

Sukhdev (d. 1931)

Rajguru (d. 1931)

Harikishan Talwar (d. 1931)

Dinesh Gupta (d. 1931)

Surya Sen (d. 1934)

Tarakeswar Dastidar (d. 1934)

Udham Singh (d. 1940)

Rudolf Slánský (d. 1952)

Chris Soumokil (d. 1966)

Abu Taher (d. 1976)

Koçi Xoxe (d. 1949)

Grigory Zinoviev (d. 1936)

Henri Zongo (d. 1989)

Luis Donaldo Colosio (d. 1994)

Leon Trotsky (d. 1940)

Panyassis (d. 454 BC)

Demetrius (d. 330 BC)

Religious figures

Rabbi Akiva (d. ca. 135 CE) religious dissident

Avvakum (d. 1682) religious dissent

Saint Joan of Arc (b. 1431) heresy

Bartholomew (d. 1st century)

Qutubuddin Shaheed (d. 1648) Dawoodi Bohra Dai al Mutlaq

Giordano Bruno (d. 1600) heresy

Thomas Cranmer (d. 1556) treason, heresy

Cardinal John Fisher (d. 1535) treason, religious dissent

Jan Hus (b. 1415) heresy

Jacob Hutter (d. 1536) heresy

Saint James the Great (d. 44)

Jesus of Nazareth (d. 30, 33, or 36) sedition

John Lambert (b. 1538) heresy

Hugh Latimer (b. 1555) heresy

Sir Thomas More (d. 1535) treason, religious dissent

Saint Paul (d. ≈64)

Saint Peter (d. ≈64)

Philip the Apostle (d. 80)

Michael Servetus (d. 1553) heresy

Edward Wightman (d 1612) heresy

Lucilio Vanini (d. 1619) apostasy

Espionage

Jack Agazarian (d. 1945)

James J. Andrews (d. 1862)

Yolande Beekman (d. 1944)

Robert Benoist (d. 1944) and sabotage

Denise Bloch (d. 1945)

Guy Biéler (d. 1944) and sabotage

Carmelo Borg Pisani (d. 1942)

Andrée Borrel (d. 1944) and sabotage

Madeleine Damerment (d. 1944) and sabotage

Sasha Fillipov (d. 1942)

William Grover-Williams (d. 1945) and sabotage

Nathan Hale (d. 1776)

Mata Hari (d. 1917)

Noor Inyat Khan (d. 1944)

Cecily Lefort (d. 1945)

Vera Leigh (d. 1944)

John Kenneth Macalister (d. 1944)

Gilbert Norman (d. 1944)

Sonia Olschanezky (d. 1944)

John Pendlebury (d. 1941)

Frank Pickersgill (d. 1944)

Eliane Plewman (d. 1944) and sabotage

Richard Quirin (d, 1942) and sabotage

Lilian Rolfe (d. 1945) and sabotage

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (d. 1953)

Diana Rowden (d. 1944) and sabotage

Yvonne Rudelatt (d. 1945) and sabotage

Roméo Sabourin (d. 1944) and sabotage

Suzanne Spaak (d. 1944)

Violette Szabo (d. 1945) and sabotage

Hannah Szenes (d. 1944) and sabotage

War crimes and crimes against humanity

Kurt Daluege (d. 1946)

Adolf Eichmann (d. 1962)

Hans Frank (d. 1946)

Wijard Jelckama (d. 1523)

Wilhelm Frick (d. 1946)

Arthur Greiser (d. 1946)

Irma Grese (d. 1945)

Saddam Hussein (d. 2006)

Alfred Jodl (d. 1946)

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (d. 1946)

Wilhelm Keitel (d. 1946)

Nguyễn Văn Lém a/k/a "Bay Lop" (d. 1968)

Draža Mihailović (d. 1946)

Vidkun Quisling (d. 1945)

Joachim von Ribbentrop (d. 1946)

Alfred Rosenberg (d. 1946)

Fritz Sauckel (d. 1946)

Arthur Seyss-Inquart (d. 1946)

Julius Streicher (d. 1946)

Hideki Tōjō (d. 1948)

Henry Wirz (d. 1865)

Ajmal Kasab (d. 2012)

Daskalogiannis (d. 1771)

Prisoners of war

Marc Bloch (d. 1944)

Emilio De Bono (d. 1944)

Davy Crockett (d. 1836)

Maximilian Kolbe (d. 1941) volunteered himself in place of another

Élise Rivet (d. 1945)

Elisabeth de Rothschild (d. 1945)

Treason

Anthony Babington (d. 1586) treason

John Brown (d. 1859) treason, murder, conspiracy

Roger Casement, (d. 1916) treason, sabotage, espionage

Dragutin Dimitrijević (d. 1917) treason

José María de Torrijos y Uriarte (d. 1791) failed Spanish revolutionary

Guy Fawkes (d. 1606) treason and conspiracy

Henri de Fleury de Coulan (d. 1666) treason

John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford (d. 1537) treason

Baillie of Jerviswood (d. 1684) treason

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (d. 1572) treason, political opponent

William Joyce (d. 1946) treason, political broadcasts

Michel Ney (d. 1815)

Arnaldo Ochoa (d. 1989) treason

Walter Raleigh (d. 1618) treason

Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586) treason

Andrey Vlasov (d. 1946) treason

William Wallace (d. 1305) treason against English King (though he was Scottish)

Perkin Warbeck (d. 1499) treason

Genrikh Yagoda (d. 1938) treason

Katherine Howard (d. 1542) treason against adultery

Homosexuality

Katherina Hetzeldorfer (d. 1477), German cross dressing lesbian executed for heresy against nature after having used a dildo on two female partners.

John Atherton (1598 – 1640), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore

Jacopo Bonfadio (c1508 – 1550), Italian humanist and historian

Francesco Calcagno (1528 – 1550), Venician Franciscan friar.

Giovanni di Giovanni (1350 – 1365), 15-year-old Italian boy charged with being "a public and notorious passive sodomite"

Lisbetha Olsdotter (died 1679), Swedish cross-dresser and early female soldier (disguised as a man).

Dominique Phinot (c1510 – c1556), French composer of the Renaissance

James Pratt and John Smith, two London men who became the last two to be hanged for sodomy in England, in November 1835

Other reasons

Fred Akuffo (d. 1979)

Alexander George Arbuthnot and Robert C. Ambrister, both hanged by Andrew Jackson (d. 1818)

Mahmoud Asgari (d. 2005), homosexual rape of 13-year-old boy

Kevin Barlow (d. 1986), drug trafficking

Anne Boleyn (d. 1536), alleged adultery

Brian Chambers (d. 1986), drug trafficking

André Chénier (d. 1794), conspiracy, political writings

Caryl Chessman (d. 1960), 17 counts of robbery, kidnapping, and rape

Olympe de Gouges (d. 1793), political writings

Che Guevara (d. 1967), revolutionary

Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg (d. 1945) involvement in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler

Catherine Howard (d. 1542), alleged adultery

Michael Kitzelmann (d. 1942), undermining the military (of Nazi Germany)

Aleksandr Kolchak (d. 1920), executed by Bolsheviks

Marinus van der Lubbe (d. 1934), arson

Ayaz Marhoni (d. 2005), homosexual rape of 13-year-old boy

Timothy McVeigh (d. 2001), murder; terrorism

Jacques Vincent Ogé (d. 1791), insurgency in uprising in Haiti

Arndt Pekurinen (d. 1944), pacifism

Viktor Pepelyayev (d. 1920)

Atefeh Rajabi (Iran, September 17, 2004), sex with an older man

Nicholas Ridley (b. 1555), heresy

Louis Riel (d. 1885), revolutionary

Madame Roland (d. 1793), revolutionary

Salem Ali Rubayyi (d. 1978)

Sacco and Vanzetti (d. 1927), murder

Jack Sheppard (d. 1724), robbery, burglary and theft

Eddie Slovik (d. 1945), desertion

Tiradentes (d. 1792), revolutionary

Dick Turpin (d. 1739), robbery

Van Tuong Nguyen, (d. 2005), drug trafficking

Dun Mikiel Xerri, (d. 1799), revolutionary

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On March 5, 1940, Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders signed the order to execute 25,700 Polish intelligentsia including 14,700 Polish prisoners of war.

Concentration camps for Jews and other, "undesirables", also existed in Germany itself. Part of the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe and North Africa along with other groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators.