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LIST OF PEOPLE WHO WERE EXECUTED

This is a 'list of people who were executed'. The list is categorised by the crime causing the death penalty.
In order of date:

Contents
Murder
Assassination
Political figures
Deposed leaders and families
Political opponents
Religious figures
Espionage
War crimes and crimes against humanity
Prisoners of war
Treason
Other
See also
External link

Murder



Stanley Williams (d. 2005)

Dhananjoy Chatterjee (d. 2004)

Mamoru Takuma (d. 2004[1])

Paul Jennings Hill (d. 2003)

Stephen Wayne Anderson (d. 2002)

Aileen Wuornos (d. 2002)

LaGrand brothers (d. 2001) and armed robbery

Juan Garza (d. 2001)

Manuel Babbitt (d. 1999)

Billy Bailey (d. 1996)

William Bonin (d. 1996)

Jerry White (d. 1995)

Flor Contemplación (d. 1995)

Andrei Chikatilo (d. 1994)

John Wayne Gacy (d. 1994)

Charles Campbell (d. 1994)

Robert Alton Harris (d. 1992)

Ted Bundy (d. 1989)

John Louis Evans (d. 1983)

Gary Gilmore (d. 1977)

Gwynne Owen Evans (d. 1964)

Peter Anthony Allen (d. 1964)

James Hanratty (d. 1962)

Charles Starkweather (d. 1959)

Jack Gilbert Graham (d. 1957)

Wilbert Coffin (d. 1956)

Ruth Ellis (d. 1955)

Barbara Graham (d. 1955)

Derek Bentley (d. 1953) pardoned

John Christie (d. 1953)

Timothy Evans (d. 1950) pardoned

John George Haigh (d. 1949)

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

Bruno Hauptmann (d. 1936)

Harry Pierpont (d. 1934)

Giuseppe Zangara (d. 1933) assassination and attempted assassination of another

Edith Thompson (d. 1923)

Frederick Bywaters (d. 1923)

Joe Hill (d. 1915)

★ Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (d. 1910)

William Kemmler (d. 1890)

Ned Kelly (d. 1880) and bank robbery

Noah Beauchamp (d. 1842)

Jereboam O. Beauchamp (d. 1826)

Jason Fairbanks (d. 1801)

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

Beatrice Cenci (d. 1599)

Assassination



George Atzerodt (d. 1865) conspiracy

John Bellingham (d. 1812)

Charlotte Corday (d. 1793)

Guy Fawkes (d. 1606) conspiracy

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

David Herold (d. 1865) conspiracy

Patrick Keppenne (d.2003) attempted assassination

Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (d. 1944) attempted assassination

Lewis Payne (d. 1865) conspiracy and attempted assassination

Claus von Stauffenberg (d. 1944) attempted assassination

Adam von Trott zu Solz (d. 1944)

★ U Saw (d. 1948)

Mary Surratt (d. 1865) conspiracy

Political figures


Deposed leaders and families


Saddam Hussein (d. 2006)

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 CeauÅŸescu (d. 1989) ruling class

Nicolae CeauÅŸescu (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)

Lady Jane Grey (d. 1554) and heresy

Ninian Home (d. 1795)

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)

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)

Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani (d. 1989)

Abdul Khaliq Mahjub (d. 1971)

Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587)

Qazi Mohammad (d. 1947)

Maurice Mpolo (d. 1961)

Umar al-Mukhtar (d. 1931)

Joseph Okito (d. 1961)

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)

Bhagat Singh (d. 1931)

Rudolf Slánský (d. 1952)

Chris Soumokil (d. 1966)

Abu Taher (d. 1976)

Koçi Xoxe (d. 1949)

Gregory Zinoviev (d. 1936)

Henri Zongo (d. 1989)

Religious figures



Avvakum (d. 1682) religious dissent

Saint Joan of Arc (b. 1431) heresy

Bartholomew (d. 1st century)

Giordano Bruno (d. 1600) heresy

Thomas Cranmer (d. 1556) treason, heresy

Ruud Draak (d. 1672) apostasy, blasphemy

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

Andrée Borrel (d. 1944) and sabotage

Madeleine Damerment (d. 1944) and sabotage

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)

Frank Pickersgill (d. 1944)

Eliane Plewman (d. 1944) 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)

Wilhelm Frick (d. 1946)

Arthur Greiser (d. 1946)

Saddam Hussein (d. 2006)

Alfred Jodl (d. 1946)

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (d. 1946)

Wilhelm Keitel (d. 1946)

Nguyen Van Lem 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 Tojo (d. 1948)

Henry Wirz (d. 1865)

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)

Nicolaus Rossini (d. 1943)

Treason



Anthony Babington (d. 1586) treason

Baillie of Jerviswood (d. 1684) treason

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

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

Paulo Correia (d. 1986) treason (''coup'' attempt)

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

Perkin Warbeck (d. 1499) treason

Genrikh Yagoda (d. 1938) treason

Dragutin Dimitrijević (d. 1917) treason

Other



Abiye Abebe (d. 1974)

Fred Akuffo (d. 1979)

Alexander George Arbuthnot, hanged by Andrew Jackson 1818

Mahmoud Asgari (d. 2005) sodomy

Kevin Barlow (d. 1986) drug trafficking

Anne Boleyn (d. 1536) adultery

Brian Chambers (d. 1986) drug trafficking

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

Caryl Chessman (d. 1960) rape

Olympe de Gouges (d. 1793) political writings

Che Guevara (d. 1967) revolutionary

Frank Fijneman (d. 1999) multiple rape

Catherine Howard (d. 1542) adultery

Zhila Izadi

Aleksandr Kolchak (d. 1920)

Marinus van der Lubbe (d. 1934) arson

Kevin Malone

Ayaz Marhoni (d. 2005) sodomy

David Edward Mason

Robert Lee Massie

Timothy McVeigh (d. 2001) murder, terrorism

Arthur Muntz (d. 1861) desertion

Jacques Vincent Ogé (d. 1791) insurgency in Haiti

Arndt Pekurinen (d. 1944) pacifism

Viktor Pepelyayev (d. 1920)

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

Darrell Keith Rich

Nicholas Ridley (b. 1555) heresy, political opponent

Louis Riel (d. 1885) revolutionary

Madame Roland (d. 1793) revolutionary

Salem Ali Rubayyi (d. 1978)

Sacco and Vanzetti (d. 1927), murder, revolutionaries

Jaturun Siripongs

Eddie Slovik (d. 1945) desertion

Tiradentes (d. 1792) revolutionary

Dick Turpin (d. 1739) robbery

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

★ Guy Fawkes
Groups:

★ On March 5 1940, Stalin himself 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.

See also



Capital punishment

Capital punishment in Canada

Capital punishment in the People's Republic of China

Capital punishment in India

Capital punishment in New Zealand

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom

Capital punishment in the United States

Lists of people

List of people executed by the Tudors

External link



USA Executions and Victims since 1977

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