List of people who were executed

List of people who were executed
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This is a list of people who were executed. The list is categorised by the crime causing the death penalty.

In order of date:

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1 Murder
2 Assassination
3 Political figures
- 3.1 Deposed leaders and families
- 3.2 Political opponents
4 Religious figures
5 Espionage
6 War crimes and crimes against humanity
7 Prisoners of war
8 Treason
9 Other
10 See also
11 External links

Murder

Stanley Williams (d. 2005)
Dhananjoy Chatterjee (d. 2004)
Mamoru Takuma (d. 2004[1])
Paul Jennings Hill (d. 2003)
Stephen Wayne Anderson (d. 2002)
Aileen Wuornos (d. 2002)
LaGrand brothers (d. 2001) and armed robbery
Juan Garza (d. 2001)
Manny Babbitt (d. 1999)
Billy Bailey (d. 1996)
William Bonin (d. 1996)
Jerry White (d. 1995)
Flor Contemplación (d. 1995)
Andrei Chikatilo (d. 1994)
John Wayne Gacy (d. 1994)
Charles Campbell (d. 1994)
Robert Alton Harris (d. 1992)
Ted Bundy (d. 1989)
John Louis Evans (d. 1983)
Gary Gilmore (d. 1977)
Gwynne Owen Evans (d. 1964)
Peter Anthony Allen (d. 1964)
James Hanratty (d. 1962)
Guenther Podola (d. 1959) last person hanged in UK for killing a policeman
Charles Starkweather (d. 1959)
Jack Gilbert Graham (d. 1957)
Wilbert Coffin (d. 1956)
Ruth Ellis (d. 1955) last woman hanged in Britain
Barbara Graham (d. 1955)
Styllou Christofi (d. 1954)
Derek Bentley (d. 1953) pardoned
John Christie (d. 1953)
Timothy Evans (d. 1950) pardoned
John George Haigh (d. 1949)
Raymond Lisenba (d. 1942) last person hanged in California
Bruno Hauptmann (d. 1936)
Harry Pierpont (d. 1934)
Giuseppe Zangara (d. 1933) assassination and attempted assassination of another
Edith Thompson (d. 1923)
Frederick Bywaters (d. 1923)
Joe Hill (d. 1915)
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (d. 1910)
William Kemmler (d. 1890)
James Arcene (d. 1885) robbery and murder
Ned Kelly (d. 1880) and bank robbery
Noah Beauchamp (d. 1842)
Jereboam O. Beauchamp (d. 1826)
Jason Fairbanks (d. 1801)
Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (d. 1760)
Beatrice Cenci (d. 1599)

Assassination

George Atzerodt (d. 1865) conspiracy
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
Patrick Keppenne (d.2003) attempted assassination
Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (d. 1944) attempted assassination
Lewis Payne (d. 1865) conspiracy and attempted assassination
Claus von Stauffenberg (d. 1944) attempted assassination
Adam von Trott zu Solz (d. 1944)
U Saw (d. 1948)
Mary Surratt (d. 1865) conspiracy

Political figures

Deposed leaders and families

Saddam Hussein (d. 2006)
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 Ceauşescu (d. 1989) ruling class
Nicolae Ceauşescu (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)
Lady Jane Grey (d. 1554) and heresy
Ninian Home (d. 1795)
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)
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)
Jean-Baptiste Lingani (d. 1989)
Faisal bin Musa'id (d. 1975)
Abdel Khaliq Mahjub (d. 1971)
Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
Qazi Mohammad (d. 1947)
Maurice Mpolo (d. 1961)
Umar al-Mukhtar (d. 1931)
Joseph Okito (d. 1961)
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)
Bhagat Singh (d. 1931)
Rudolf Slánský (d. 1952)
Chris Soumokil (d. 1966)
Abu Taher (d. 1976)
Koçi Xoxe (d. 1949)
Gregory Zinoviev (d. 1936)
Henri Zongo (d. 1989)

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
Andrée Borrel (d. 1944) and sabotage
Madeleine Damerment (d. 1944) and sabotage
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)
Frank Pickersgill (d. 1944)
Eliane Plewman (d. 1944) 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)
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)

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)
Nicolaus Rossini (d. 1943)

Treason

Anthony Babington (d. 1586) treason
John Brown (d. 1859) treason, murder, conspiracy
Roger Casement, (d. 1916) treason, sabotage, espionage
Paulo Correia (d. 1986) treason (coup attempt)
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
Perkin Warbeck (d. 1499) treason
Genrikh Yagoda (d. 1938) treason

Other

Abiye Abebe (d. 1974)
Fred Akuffo (d. 1979)
Alexander George Arbuthnot, hanged by Andrew Jackson 1818
Mahmoud Asgari (d. 2005) sodomy
Kevin Barlow (d. 1986) drug trafficking
Anne Boleyn (d. 1536) adultery
Brian Chambers (d. 1986) drug trafficking
André Chénier (d. 1794), conspiracy, political writings
Caryl Chessman (d. 1960) rape
Olympe de Gouges (d. 1793) political writings
Che Guevara (d. 1967) revolutionary
Frank Fijneman (d. 1999) multiple rape
Catherine Howard (d. 1542) adultery
Zhila Izadi
Aleksandr Kolchak (d. 1920)
Marinus van der Lubbe (d. 1934) arson
Kevin Malone
Ayaz Marhoni (d. 2005) sodomy
David Edward Mason
Robert Lee Massie
Timothy McVeigh (d. 2001) murder, terrorism
Arthur Muntz (d. 1861) desertion
Jacques Vincent Ogé (d. 1791) insurgency in Haiti
Arndt Pekurinen (d. 1944) pacifism
Viktor Pepelyayev (d. 1920)
Atefeh Rajabi (Iran, September 17, 2004) sex with an older man
Darrell Keith Rich
Nicholas Ridley (b. 1555) heresy, political opponent
Louis Riel (d. 1885) revolutionary
Madame Roland (d. 1793) revolutionary
Salem Ali Rubayyi (d. 1978)
Sacco and Vanzetti (d. 1927), murder, revolutionaries
Jaturun Siripongs
Eddie Slovik (d. 1945) desertion
Tiradentes (d. 1792) revolutionary
Dick Turpin (d. 1739) robbery
Van Tuong Nguyen, (d. 2005), drug trafficking

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On March 5, 1940, Stalin himself 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.