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) Also known as "The dasher"
• Jack Alderman (d. 2008)
• 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)
• John Battaglia (d. 2018)
• Jereboam O. Beauchamp (d. 1826)
• Noah Beauchamp (d. 1842)
• Grete Beier (d. 1908) Also known as Marie Margarethe Beier and is the last woman who was publicly executed in the Kingdom of Saxony
• Derek Bentley (d. 1953) pardoned
• Brandon Bernard (d. 2020)
• Kenneth Biros (d. 2009) Murder, Rape, Robbery and sexual penetration
• William Bonin (d. 1996)
• Gary Ray Bowles (d. 2019)
• 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)
• Dustin Higgs (d. 2021)
• 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)
• Edmund Zagorski (d. 2018)

Assassination[]

• Nathuram Godse (d. 1949) assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• Narayan Apte (d. 1949) assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
• George Atzerodt (d. 1865) conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln
• John Wilkes Booth (d. 1865) assassination of 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 Powell (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
• Satwant Singh
• Kehar Singh

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
• Hong Tianguifu (d.1864)
• 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)
• Marie Bouffa (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. 1794)
• 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)
• Shivaram 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)
• José Calvo Sotelo (d. 1936)

Religious figures[]

• Rabbi Akiva (d. ca. 135 CE) religious dissident
• Avvakum (d. 1682) religious dissent
• Saint Joan of Arc (b. 1431) supposed 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. c.64)
• Saint Peter (d. c.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)
• Jozef Tiso (d. 1947)
• 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
• 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 Texas

References[]

External links[]

• USA Executions and Victims since 1977