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 Ceauşescu (d. 1989) ruling class

★ Nicolae Ceauşescu (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