List of people who were executed

This is a list of people who have been executed. The list is categorised by the reason for execution and the year of the execution is included.

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) ^[1]
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

Political figures

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

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
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

Main article: List of people executed for 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^[2]
Jacopo Bonfadio (c1508 – 1550), Italian humanist and historian^[3]
Francesco Calcagno (1528 – 1550), Venician Franciscan friar.^[4]
Giovanni di Giovanni (1350 – 1365), 15-year-old Italian boy charged with being "a public and notorious passive sodomite"^[5]^[6]
Lisbetha Olsdotter (died 1679), Swedish cross-dresser and early female soldier (disguised as a man).
Dominique Phinot (c1510 – c1556), French composer of the Renaissance^[7]
James Pratt and John Smith, two London men who became the last two to be hanged for sodomy in England, in November 1835

Witchcraft

Main article: List of people executed for witchcraft

Other

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.

References

↑ Japantimes.co.jp
↑ Norris, David (2009-05-17). "Changing Attitudes". Public Address at the service to mark international day against homophobia in Christ Church Cathedral. David Norris. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
↑ Official website commemorating 500 years since Bonfadio's birth
↑ Tucker, Scott (1997). The Queer Question: Essays on Desire and Democracy. Boston: South End Press. ISBN 978-0-89608-577-0. p. 46.
↑ Rocke, Michael (1996). Forbidden Friendships, Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence. Oxford University Press. pp. 24, 227, 356, 360. ISBN 0-19-512292-5.
↑ Meyer, Michael J (2000). Literature and Homosexuality. Rodopi. p. 206. ISBN 90-420-0519-X.
↑ Jacob, Roger "Dominique Phinot", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed January 1, 2006), (subscription access)

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