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)
- Grete Beier (d. 1908)
- 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)
- Carlton Gary (d. 2018)
- 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)
- Pramod Ranjan Choudhury (d. 1926)
- 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
- Rabbi Akiva (d. ca. 135 CE) religious dissident
- Avvakum (d. 1682) religious dissent
- Saint Joan of Arc (b. 1431) heresy
- Bartholomew (d. 1st century)
- Qutubuddin Shaheed (d. 1648) Dawoodi Bohra Dai al Mutlaq
- Giordano Bruno (d. 1600) heresy
- Thomas Cranmer (d. 1556) treason, heresy
- Cardinal John Fisher (d. 1535) treason, religious dissent
- 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
- 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
- José María de Torrijos y Uriarte (d. 1791) failed Spanish revolutionary
- 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
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (d. 1953) conspiracy to commit espionage
- 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
- 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
Other
Executed by Tudors
Beheaded
Burned as heretics
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
Groups:
- 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.
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 executed in the United States
- Lists of people executed in Texas
- Lists of people
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. Archived from the original on 2009-06-06. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
- ↑ Official website commemorating 500 years since Bonfadio's birth Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ 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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