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 surnamesCountriesDates bornOfficial positionsDates diedNotes
Antonescu, IonRomania1882-06-15Prime minister (1940-1944)1946-06-01Executed by firing squad
Bagryanov, Ivan IvanovBulgaria1891-10-29Prime minister (1944)1945-02-01Executed
Bayar, CelalTurkey1883-05-16President (1950-1960), prime minister (1937-1939)1986-08-22Sentence commuted; released in 1964
Bhutto, Zulfikar AliPakistan1928-01-05President (1971-1973), prime minister (1973-1977)1979-04-04Executed by hanging
Bokassa, Jean-BédelCentral African Republic1921-02-22Emperor (1976-1979), president (1966-1976)1996-11-03Sentence commuted; released in 1993
Bozhilov, DobriBulgaria1884-06-13Prime minister (1943-1944)1945-02-01Executed
Ceauşescu, NicolaeRomania1918-01-26President (1967-1989)1989-12-25Executed by firing squad
Charles I of EnglandEngland1600-11-19King (1625-1649)1649-01-30Executed by decapitation
Chen GongboChina (Wang Jingwei government)1892President (1944-1945)1946Executed by firing squad
Chun Doo-hwanKorea, South1931-01-18President (1980-1988)LivingSentence commuted; released in 1997
Filov, BogdanBulgaria1883-04-09Prime minister (1940-1943)1945-02-02Executed
Hoveida, Amir-AbbasIran1919-02-18Prime minister (1965-1977)1979-04-07Executed by firing squad
Lady Jane GreyEngland1536/1537Queen (1553)1553-07-19Executed
Liang HongzhiChina, reformed government of the Republic of1882Chairman (1938-1940)1946-11Executed by firing squad
Louis XVI of FranceFrance1754-08-23King (1774-1792)1793-01-21Executed by decapitation (guillotine)
Macías Nguema, FranciscoEquatorial Guinea1924-01-01President (1968-1979)1979-09-29Executed
Mary, Queen of ScotsScotland1542-12-08Queen of Scotland (1542-1567)1587-02-08Beheaded by order of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England, to prevent her inheriting the English throne.
Massemba-Débat, AlphonseCongo, Republic of the1921President (1963-1968), prime minister (1963)1977-03-25Executed
Menderes, AdnanTurkey1899Prime minister (1950-1960)1961-09-17Executed by hanging
Mengistu Haile MariamEthiopia1937 or 1941Head of state (1977-1987), president (1987-1991)Livingin absentia
Mussolini, BenitoItaly1883-07-29Prime minister (1922-1943)1945-04-28Executed by firing squad
Nagy, ImreHungary1896-06-07Prime minister (1953-1955, 1956)1958-06-16Executed by hanging
Najibullah, MohammadAfghanistan1947President (1987-1992)1996-09-27Executed by hanging
Nicholas II of RussiaRussian Empire1868-05-18[1]Emperor (1894-1917)1918-07-17[2]Executed
Pétain, PhilippeFrance, Vichy1856-04-24Head of state (1940-1944)1951-07-23Sentence commuted to life imprisonment
Ferenc SzálasiHungary1897-01-06Nationleader (1944-1945)1946-03-12Executed
Quisling, VidkunNorway1887-07-18Minister president (1942-1945)1945-10-24Executed by firing squad
Saddam HusseinIraq1937-04-28President (1979-2003)2006-12-30Executed by hanging
Tojo, HidekiJapan1884-12-30Prime minister (1941-1944)1948-12-23Executed by hanging
Traoré, MoussaMali1936-09-25President (1968-1991)LivingSentence commuted; released in 2002
Zinsou, ÉmileDahomey (now Benin)1918-03-23President (1968-1969)2016-07-28in absentia
Marcos, FerdinandPhilippines1917-9-11President (1965-1986)1989-9-28Sentenced commuted; released in 22 October 1940

Footnotes

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

See also

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