List of people who were executed
This is a list of people who were executed. The list is categorised by the reason for execution.
Murder
- Anastasia Romanova (d. 1918/9]
- 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 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)
- Ronald Turpin (d. 1962) one of 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)
Religious figures
See also: Christian martyrs
- 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)
- 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)
- Ajmal Kasab (d. 2012)
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
Executed by Tudors
Main article: List of people executed by the Tudors
Beheaded
Main article: List of people who were beheaded
Burned as heretics
Main article: List of people 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
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)