LIST OF FORMER HEADS OF REGIMES WHO WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH

This is an incomplete 'list of former heads of regimes', like Presidents, Prime Ministers, Monarchs, 'who were sentenced to death' by the succeeding regime following their removal from power.

Names indexed by surnames	Countries	Dates born	Official positions	Dates died	Notes
Antonescu, Ion	Romania	1882-06-15	Prime Minister (1940-1944)	1946-06-01	Executed by firing squad
Bagrianov, Ivan Ivanov	Bulgaria	1891	Prime Minister (1944)	1945	Executed
Bayar, Celal	Turkey	1883-05-16	President (1950-1960), Prime Minister (1937-1939)	1986-08-22	Sentence commuted; released in 1964
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali	Pakistan	1928-01-05	President (1971-1973), Prime Minister (1973-1977)	1979-04-04	Executed by hanging
Bokassa, Jean-Bédel	Central African Republic	1921-02-22	Emperor (1976-1979), President (1966-1976)	1996-11-03	Sentence commuted; released in 1993
Bozhilov, Dobri	Bulgaria	1884-06-13	Prime Minister (1943-1944)	1945-02-01	Executed
Ceauşescu, Nicolae	Romania	1918-01-26	President (1967-1989)	1989-12-25	Executed by firing squad
Charles I of England	England	1600-11-19	King (1625-1649)	1649-01-30	Executed by decapitation
Chen Gongbo	China (Wang Jingwei Government)	1892	President (1944-1945)	1946	Executed by firing squad
Chun Doo-hwan	Korea, South	1931-01-18	President (1980-1988)	Living	Sentence commuted; released in 1997
Filov, Bogdan	Bulgaria	1883-04-09	Prime Minister (1940-1943)	1945-02-02	Executed
Hoveida, Amir-Abbas	Iran	1919-02-18	Prime Minister (1965-1977)	1979-04-07	Executed by firing squad
Louis XVI of France	France	1754-08-23	King (1774-1792)	1793-01-21	Executed by decapitation (guillotine)
Macías Nguema, Francisco	Equatorial Guinea	1924-01-01	President (1968-1979)	1979-09-29	Executed
Massemba-Débat, Alphonse	Congo, Republic of the	1921	President (1963-1968), Prime Minister (1963)	1977-03-25	Executed
Menderes, Adnan	Turkey	1899	Prime Minister (1950-1960)	1961-09-17	Executed by hanging
Mussolini, Benito	Italy	1883-07-29	Prime Minister (1922-1943)	1945-04-28	Executed by firing squad
Nagy, Imre	Hungary	1896-06-07	Prime Minister (1953-1955, 1956)	1958-06-16	Executed by hanging
Najibullah, Mohammad	Afghanistan	1947	President (1987-1992)	1996-09-27	Executed by hanging
Nicholas II of Russia	Russian Empire	1868-05-18[1]	Emperor (1894-1917)	1918-07-17[2]	Executed
Pétain, Philippe	France, Vichy	1856-04-24	Head of State (1940-1944)	1951-07-23	Sentence commuted to life imprisonment
Quisling, Vidkun	Norway	1887-07-18	Minister President (1942-1945)	1945-10-24	Executed by firing squad
Saddam Hussein	Iraq	1937-04-28	President (1979-2003)	2006-12-30	Executed by hanging
Tojo, Hideki	Japan	1884-12-30	Prime Minister (1941-1944)	1948-12-23	Executed by hanging
Traoré, Moussa	Mali	1936-09-25	President (1968-1991)	Living	Sentence commuted; released in 2002
Zinsou, Émile	Dahomey (now Benin)	1918-03-23	President (1968-1969)	Living	''in absentia''

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Footnotes

1. 6 May 1868 in the Julian calendar
2. 4 July 1918 in the Julian calendar

See also

★ List of heads of regimes who were later imprisoned

★ List of former heads of regimes who were sentenced to death by hanging

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★ The lives, deaths of dictators