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List of people who were executed

This list is categorised by the reason for execution and the year of the execution is included. When a person was sentenced to death for two or more different capital crimes they are listed multiple times.

Arson and sabotage

Robert Benoist (1944)
Guy Biéler (1944)
Andrée Borrel (1944)
Madeleine Damerment (1944)
Gratien Fernando (1942)
William Grover-Williams (1945)
Johannes Lötter (1901)
Marinus van der Lubbe (1934)
Vuyisile Mini (1964)
Eliane Plewman (1944)
Richard Quirin (d, 1942)
Lilian Rolfe (1945)
Diana Rowden (1944)
Yvonne Rudelatt (1945)
Roméo Sabourin (1944)
Biswanath Sardar (1808)
Violette Szabo (1945)
Hannah Szenes (1944)

Assassination

Mohammad Abdullah (1871) assassination of John Paxton Norman
Sher Ali Afridi (1872) assassination of Viceroy Lord Mayo
Pakhomy Andreyushkin (1887) conspiracy to assassinate Russian Emperor Alexander III
Narayan Apte (1949) assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
George Atzerodt (1865) assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln
Jean Bastien-Thiry (1963) attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle
John Bellingham (1812) assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
Eliyahu Bet-Zuri (1945) assassination of Lord Moyne
Mehmet Arif Bey (1926) conspiracy to assassinate Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Pasha
Mehmed Cavid Bey (1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
Mehmed Nâzım Bey (1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
Ziya Hurşit Bey (1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
Dmitry Bogrov (1911) assassination of Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin
Lee Bong-chang (1932) attempted assassination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito
Yun Bong-gil (1932) assassination of General Yoshinori Shirakawa
Charlotte Corday (1793) assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
Leon Czolgosz (1901) assassination of US President William McKinley
Madan Lal Dhingra (1909) assassination of William Hutt Curzon Wyllie
Albert Dovecar (1962) assassination of Police Commissaire Roger Gavoury
Reginald Dunne (1922) assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson
Muhammad abd-al-Salam Faraj (1982) assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
John Felton (1628) assassination of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
Vasily Generalov (1887) conspiracy to assassinate Alexander III
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, (1982) conspiracy to assassinate Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini
Nathuram Godse (1949) assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Paul Gorguloff (1932) assassination of French President Paul Doumer
Charles Guiteau (1882) assassination of US President James A. Garfield
Abdul Khaliq Hazara (1933) assassination of Afghan King Mohammed Nadir Shah
Eliyahu Hakim (1945) assassination of Lord Moyne
David Herold (1865) assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Khalid al-Islambouli (1982) assassination of Anwar Sadat
Ivan Kalyayev (1905) assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
Lev Kamenev (1935) assassination of Sergei Kirov
Anant Laxman Kanhere (1909) assassination of Collector A. M. T. Jackson
Leonid Kannegisser (1918) assassination of Moisei Uritsky
Fanny Kaplan (1918) attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin
Mirza Reza Kermani (1896) assassination of Iranian Shah Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
Nikolai Kibalchich (1881) assassination of Russian Emperor Alexander II
Aleksandr Kvyatkovsky (1880) conspiracy to assassinate Alexander II
Kim Jae-gyu (1980) assassination of South Korean President Park Chung Hee
Vsevolod Lebedintsev (1908) conspiracy to assassinate Russian Minister of Justice Ivan Shcheglovitov
Roderigo Lopez (1595) attempted assassination of Queen Elizabeth I of England
Louis Pierre Louvel (1820) assassination of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
Naseeruddin Mauzi (1920) assassination of Robert William Douglas Willoughby
Hafız Mehmet (1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
Timofey Mikhailov (1881) assassination of Alexander II
Rajnarayan Mishra (1944) assassination of Robert William Douglas Willoughby
Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud (1975) assassination of king Faisal of Saudi Arabia
Leonid Nikolaev (1934) assassination of Sergei Kirov
Eligiusz Niewiadomski (1923) assassination of Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz
Felice Orsini (1858) attempted assassination of Emperor of the French Napoleon III
Vasili Osipanov (1887) conspiracy to assassinate Alexander III
Joseph O'Sullivan (1922) assassination of Sir Henry Wilson
Rüştü Pasha (1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
Sophia Perovskaya (1881) assassination of Alexander II
Peter, son of Töre (1198) assassination of Gertrude of Merania
Claude Piegts (1962) assassination of Roger Gavoury
Michael Piekarski (1620) attempted assassination of King Sigismund III
Otto Planetta (1934) assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
Lewis Powell (1865) conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and attempted assassination of US Secretary of State William Seward
Sayyid Qutb (1966) conspiracy to assassinate Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser
François Ravaillac (1610) assassination of King Henry IV of France
Nikolai Rysakov (1881) assassination of Alexander II
Petr Shevyrev (1887) conspiracy to assassinate Alexander III
Beant Singh (1989) assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
Kehar Singh (1989) assassination of Indira Gandhi
Satwant Singh (1989) assassination of Indira Gandhi
Udham Singh (1940) assassination of Michael O'Dwyer
Friedrich Staps (1809) attempted assassination of Emperor Napoleon
Khalil Tahmasebi (1955) assassination of Iranian Prime Minister Ali Razmara
William Thomas (1554) conspiracy to assassinate Queen Mary I of England
U Saw (1948) assassination of Aung San
Harikishan Talwar (1931) attempted assassination of Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency
Nguyen Van Troi (1964) attempted assassination of Robert McNamara and future ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Mary Surratt (1865) assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Aleksandr Ulyanov (1887) conspiracy to assassinate Alexander III
Auguste Vaillant (1894) attempted assassination of members of the French Chamber of Deputies
Huang Yiguang (1940) attempted assassination of Wang Jingwei
Giuseppe Zangara (1933) assassination of Chicago mayor Anton Cermak
Andrei Zhelyabov (1881) assassination of Alexander II

Espionage

Jack Agazarian (1945)
James J. Andrews (1862)
Yolande Beekman (1944)
Robert Benoist (1944)
Denise Bloch (1945)
Guy Biéler (1944)
Carmelo Borg Pisani (1942)
Andrée Borrel (1944)
Roger Casement (1916)
Madeleine Damerment (1944)
Gratien Fernando (1942)
Sasha Fillipov (1942)
William Grover-Williams (1945)
Nathan Hale (1776)
Mata Hari (1917)
Noor Inyat Khan (1944)
Josef Jakobs (1941)
Cecily Lefort (1945)
Vera Leigh (1944)
Carl Hans Lody (1914)
John Kenneth Macalister (1944)
Karl Heinrich Meier (1940)
Gilbert Norman (1944)
Sonia Olschanezky (1944)
John Pendlebury (1941)
Frank Pickersgill (1944)
Eliane Plewman (1944)
Richard Quirin (d, 1942)
Karel Richard Richter (1941)
Lilian Rolfe (1945)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1953)
Diana Rowden (1944)
Yvonne Rudelatt (1945)
Roméo Sabourin (1944)
Heba Selim (1974)
Suzanne Spaak (1944)
Violette Szabo (1945)
Hannah Szenes (1944)
Josef Waldberg (1940)

Military and civil conflicts, insurrections, and coups d'état

Ancient Times (pre AD 500)

Demetrius (330 BC)
Panyassis (454 BC)
Cleopatra Selene of Syria (69 BC)
Longinus of Selinus (498)

Pre-Modern Era (500-1500)

Conradin (1268)
Constantine I of Georgia (1412)
Dafydd ap Gruffydd (1283)
Wen Tianxiang (1283)
David of Trebizond (1463)
William Wallace (1305)

Early Modern Era (1500-1800)

Marie Antoinette (1793)
Madame du Barry (1793)
Micaela Bastidas (1781)
Frei Caneca (1825)
Ștefan Cantacuzino (1716)
King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1649)
Cuauhtémoc (1525)
Daskalogiannis (1771)
Madame Elisabeth (1793)
György Dózsa (1514)
Jean-Michel Duroy (1795)
Matija Gubec (1573)
Kryštof Harant (1621)
Wijard Jelckama (1523)
Matthew Keogh (1798)
Jan Sladký Kozina (1695)
King Louis XVI of France (1793)
Jacques Vincent Ogé (1791)
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1619)
Jöran Persson (1568)
Maximilien Robespierre (1794)
Crown Prince Sado (1762)
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1794)
Tiradentes (1792)
Dun Mikiel Xerri (1799)

19th century

Abushiri (1889)
John Brown (1859)
Federico Fernández Cavada (1871)
Athanasios Diakos (1821)
Tsanko Dyustabanov (1876)
Robert Emmet (1803)
Charles Hindelang (1839)
Andreas Hofer (1810)
Agustín de Iturbide (1823)
Georgi Izmirliev (1876)
Hermann Jellinek (1848)
Peer Ali Khan (1857)
François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier (1839)
Muhammad Ali Madali (1898)
Maximilian of Mexico (1867)
Miguel Miramón (1867)
Francisco Morazán (1842)
Joachim Murat (1815)
Bhima Nayak (1876)
Hassan bin Omari (1895)
Gabriel Prosser (1800)
Mateo Pumacahua (1815)
José Rizal (1896)
Thomas Russell (1803)
Biswanath Sardar (1808)
Ram Baksh Singh (1857)
Hong Tianguifu (1864)
William Walker (1860)
Henry Wirz (1865)

1900s

Peter Handcock (1902)
Harry "Breaker" Morant (1902)
Gideon Scheepers (1902)

1910s

Mehmed Kemâl Bey (1919)
Éamonn Ceannt (1916)
Cornelius "Con" Colbert (1916)
James Connolly (1916)
Thomas Clarke (1916)
Edward Daly (1916)
Seán Heuston (1916)
Eugen Leviné (1919)
John MacBride (1916)
Seán Mac Diarmada (1916)
Thomas MacDonagh (1916)
Michael Mallin (1916)
Nicholas II and family (1918)
Michael O'Hanrahan (1916)
Patrick Pearse (1916)
William Pearse (1916)
Joseph Plunkett (1916)
Pavel Poltoratskiy (1918)

1920s

Kevin Barry (1920)
Vue Pa Chay (1921)
Hasan Hayri (1925)
Aleksandr Kolchak (1920)
Maurice Moore (1921)
Sheikh Said (1925)

1930s

Ibrahim Bek (1931)
Tarakeswar Dastidar (1934)
Amada García (1938)
Umar al-Mukhtar (1931)
Seyid Riza (1937)
Surya Sen (1934)
Lý Tự Trọng (1931)

1940s

Ion Antonescu (1946)
Eugen Bolz (1945)
Kurt Daluege (1946)
Alois Eliáš (1942)
Bogdan Filov (1945)
Hans Frank (1946)
Wilhelm Frick (1946)
Amon Göth (1946)
Arthur Greiser (1946)
Irma Grese (1945)
Alfred Jodl (1946)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1946)
Wilhelm Keitel (1946)
Komarudin (1949)
Pierre Laval (1945)
Draža Mihailović (1946)
Arndt Pekurinen (1944)
Vidkun Quisling (1945)
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1946)
Alfred Rosenberg (1946)
Fritz Sauckel (1946)
Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1946)
Eddie Slovik (1945)
Julius Streicher (1946)
Ferenc Szálasi (1946)
Jozef Tiso (1947)
Hideki Tōjō (1948)
Tomoyuki Yamashita (1946)

1950s

King Faisal II of Iraq (1958)
Dedan Kimathi (1957)
Moshe Marzouk (1955)
Larbi Ben M'hidi (1957)
Imre Nagy (1958)
Evagoras Pallikarides (1957)

1960s

Adolf Eichmann (1962)
Ernesto Guevara (1967)
Évariste Kimba (1966)
Patrice Lumumba (1961)
Adnan Menderes (1961)
Hasan Polatkan (1961)
Chris Soumokil (1966)
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu (1961)

1970s

Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong (1979)
Salim Rubai Ali (1978)
Akwasi Afrifa (1979)
Fred Akuffo (1979)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1979)
Long Boret (1975)
Francisco Caamaño (1973)
Amir Abbas Hoveida (1979)
Endelkachew Makonnen (1974)
Alphonse Massamba-Débat (1977)
Sisowath Sirik Matak (1975)
Francisco Macías Nguema (1979)

1980s

Hameed Baloch (1981)
Maurice Bishop (1983)
Elena Ceaușescu (1989)
Nicolae Ceaușescu (1989)
Diarra Traoré (1985)
Henri Zongo (1989)

Post 1990

Saddam Hussein (2006)
Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Naggar (2000)
Tal'at Fu'ad Qasim (1995)

Murder

Zainal Abidin Abdul Malik (1996)
Shaiful Edham bin Adam (1999)
Jack Alderman (2008)
Clarence Ray Allen (2006) most recent execution in California
Peter Anthony Allen (1964) one of the last two executions in the UK
Johan Alfred Ander (1910) last execution in Sweden
Sunny Ang (1967)
James Arcene (1885)
Ahmad Najib Aris (2016)
Herbert Rowse Armstrong (1922)
Hesham Ashmawy (2020)
Hıdır Aslan (1984) last execution in Turkey
James Autry (1984)
Jean-Charles-Alphonse Avinain (1867)
Manny Babbitt (1999)
Billy Bailey (1996)
Wesley Baker (2005) last execution in Maryland
John Battaglia (2018)
Jereboam O. Beauchamp (1826)
Noah Beauchamp (1842)
Grete Beier (1908) last woman publicly executed in the Kingdom of Saxony
Derek Bentley (1953) pardoned
Brandon Bernard (2020)
Wilford Berry Jr. (1999) first post-Gregg execution in Ohio
Bhabani Prasad Bhattacharya (1935)
Manoranjan Bhattacharya (1932)
Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya (1933)
Kenneth Biros (2009) also rape, robbery, and sexual penetration
Jesse Bishop (1979) first post-Gregg execution in Nevada
Ramakrishna Biswas (1931)
Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé (1851)
Gerald Bordelon (2010) most recent execution in Louisiana
Charu Chandra Bose (1909)
Khudiram Bose (1908)
Charles Brooks Jr. (1982) first post-Gregg execution in Texas
Cal Coburn Brown (2010) last execution in Washington
Claude Buffet (1972)
Henry John Burnett (1963) last execution in Scotland
Edwin Bush (1961)
Elizabeth Butchill (1780)
Frederick Bywaters (1923)
Charles Campbell (1994)
Jérôme Carrein (1977)
Beatrice Cenci (1599)
Brajakishore Chakraborty (1934)
Marco Allen Chapman (2008) most recent execution in Kentucky
Dhananjoy Chatterjee (2004)
Botak Chin (1981)
Andrew Chou Hock Guan (1975)
David Chou Hock Heng (1975)
Pramod Ranjan Choudhury (1926)
Styllou Christofi (1954)
James Lee Clark (2007)
Terry D. Clark (2001) first post-Gregg execution in New Mexico and last execution in New Mexico
Robert Glen Coe (2000) first post-Gregg execution in Tennessee
Wilbert Coffin (1956)
Charles Coleman (1990) first post-Gregg execution in Oklahoma
Flor Contemplación (1995)
James Copeland (1857)
Frank J. Coppola (1982) first post-Gregg execution in Virginia
James Corbitt (1950)
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (1910)
Ba Cụt (1956)
Gary Lee Davis (1997) first post-Gregg execution in Colorado and last execution in Colorado
David Thomas Dawson (2006) most recent execution in Montana
John Dickman (1910)
Hamida Djandoubi (1977) last execution in France
Samuel Herbert Dougal (1903)
Mrigendra Dutta (1933)
Ruth Ellis (1955) last woman executed in the UK
Gwynne Owen Evans (1964) one of the last two executions in the UK
John Louis Evans (1983) first post-Gregg execution in Alabama
Timothy Evans (1950) pardoned
Jason Fairbanks (1801)
Mona Fandey (2001)
Samuel Flippen (2006) most recent execution in North Carolina
Edmond Foley (1921)
Francis Forsyth (1960)
Francisco (1876) last execution in Brazil (former Empire of Brazil)
Sidney Harry Fox (1930)
Ronnie Lee Gardner (2010) most recent execution in Utah
Micheal Anak Garing (2019)
Juan Garza (2001)
Nirmal Jibon Ghosh (1934)
Gary Gilmore (1977) first post-Gregg execution in Utah and in the United States
Barbara Graham (1955)
John Grant (2021)
Jimmy Lee Gray (1983) first post-Gregg execution in Mississippi
Oswald Grey (1962)
Biren Datta Gupta (1910)
Dinesh Gupta (1931)
Orlando Cordia Hall (2020)
James Hanratty (1962)
Donald Harding (1992) first post-Gregg execution in Arizona
Frederick John Harris (1965)
Robert Alton Harris (1992) first post-Gregg execution in California
Bruno Hauptmann (1936)
Haw Tua Tau (1982)
Neville Heath (1946)
Gary M. Heidnik (1999) most recent execution in Pennsylvania
Dustin Higgs (2021) most recent execution by the United States federal government
Joe Hill (1915)
Paul Jennings Hill (2003)
Murray Hooper (2022) most recent execution in Arizona
Mark Hopkinson (1992) first post-Gregg execution in Wyoming and last execution in Wyoming
Walter Horsford (1898)
Took Leng How (2006)
James W. Hutchins (1984) first post-Gregg execution in North Carolina
James Inglis (1951)
Paul Irniger (1939)
Kho Jabing (2016)
Mohammed Ali bin Johari (2008)
Ernest Lee Johnson (2021)
Shannon Johnson (2012) last execution in Delaware
Louis Jones Jr. (2003)
Quintin Jones (2021)
Juliana (ca. 1542)
Muhammad Kadar (2015)
Michalis Karaolis (1956)
İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1973)
Ned Kelly (1880) and armed robbery
William Kemmler (1890)
Thomas Kent (1916)
Charles Kerins (1944)
Karl-Otto Koch (1945)
François Claudius Koenigstein (1892)
S. Nagarajan Kuppusamy (1999)
Pierre François Lacenaire (1836)
LaGrand brothers (2001)
Lela Pandak Lam (1877)
Donnie Cleveland Lance (2020)
Jeffrey Landrigan (2010)
Terry Langford (1998)
Lau Lee Peng (2000)
William Emmett LeCroy Jr. (2020)
Daniel Lewis Lee (2020)
Ledell Lee (2017)
Antoine Léger (1824)
Leong Siew Chor (2007)
Anthony Ler (2002)
Teresa Lewis (2010)
José Gregorio Liendo (1973)
Adrian Lim (1988) notorious child killer in Singapore
Lim Chin Chong (1998)
Peter Lim Swee Guan (1975)
Raymond Lisenba (1942) last execution by hanging in California
Clayton Lockett (2014)
Howard Long (1939) last execution in New Hampshire
Theerasak Longji (2018) most recent execution in Thailand
Johannes Lötter (1901)
Arthur Lucas (1962) one of the last two executions in Canada
Daryl Mack (2006) most recent execution in Nevada
Patrick Maher (1921)
Solomon Mahlangu (1979)
Mahsuri (1819)
Kelvin Malone (1999)
Mampuru II (1883)
Michael Manning (1954) last execution in the Republic of Ireland
Leslie Dale Martin (2002)
Jason Massey (2001)
Robert Lee Massie (2001)
Mahmood Hussein Mattan (1952) pardoned
Robert McGladdery (1961) last execution in Northern Ireland
Dennis McGuire (2014)
Duncan McKenzie (1995) first post-Gregg execution in Montana
Harold McQueen Jr. (1997) first post-Gregg execution in Kentucky
Daisy de Melker (1932)
George Mercer (1989) first post-Gregg execution in Missouri
Louisa May Merrifield (1953)
Anthony Miller (1960) last teenager executed in the UK
Vuyisile Mini (1964)
Lezmond Charles Mitchell (2020)
Anantahari Mitra (1926)
Benjamin Moloise (1985)
Lisa Marie Montgomery (2021)
Thomas Hartley Montgomery (1873) only Irish policeman sentenced to death for murder
Carey Dean Moore (2018) most recent execution in Nebraska
Harry Charles Moore (1997) most recent execution in Oregon
Patrick Moran (1921)
William Morva (2017) last execution in Virginia
Leon Moser (1995)
Norishyam s/o Mohamed Ali (1999)
Shukri Mustafa (1978)
Mun Se-gwang (1974)
Khwan-On Natthaphon (2002)
Hester Rebecca Nepping (1812)
Susan Newell (1923) last woman executed in Scotland
Solomon Ngobeni (1989) last execution in South Africa\
Oh Laye Koh (1995)
Harold Lamont Otey (1994) first post-Gregg execution in Nebraska
Gary Otte (2017)
Elijah Page (2007) first post-Gregg execution in South Dakota
Anath Bondhu Panja (1933)
Zsiga Pankotia (1961)
Russell Pascoe (1963)
Ronald Phillips (2017)
Harry Pierpont (1934)
Guenther Podola (1959) last execution in the UK for the murder of a policeman
Victor Prévost (1880)
Wesley Ira Purkey (2020)
Christian Ranucci (1976)
Kanesan Ratnam (2003)
Charles Rhines (2019) most recent execution in South Dakota
Paul Ezra Rhoades (2011)
Joseph Riaud (1876)
James Terry Roach (1986)
Alfred Rouse (1931)
Ramkrishna Roy (1934)
Buck Ruxton (1936)
Sacco and Vanzetti (1927)
Gopinath Saha (1924)
Ahmed Salim (2024)
August Sangret (1943)
Utuwankande Sura Saradiel (1864) and armed robbery
Richard Schuh (1949)
Jay D. Scott (2001)
Frederick Seddon (1912)
Joseph Carl Shaw (1985) first post-Gregg execution in South Carolina
Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (1760)
Baikuntha Shukla (1934)
Roshan Singh (1927)
Bhagat Singh (1931)
Sukhdev (1931)
Shivaram Rajguru (1931)
Ahmad Isma'il 'Uthman Saleh (2000)
Võ Thị Sáu (1952)
Boysie Singh (1957)
Jaturun Siripongs (1999)
James Smith (1962)
James Edward Smith (1990)
John Eldon Smith (1983) first post-Gregg execution in Georgia
Kenneth Eugene Smith (2024) first execution by nitrogen hypoxia
Sandra Smith (1989) last woman executed in South Africa
John Spenkelink (1979) first post-Gregg execution in Florida
John Frederick Stockwell (1934)
Robert Austin Sullivan (1983)
John Edward Swindler (1990) first post-Gregg execution in Arkansas
Tan Chee Wee (2004)
Tan Kheng Ann (1965) mastermind of the Pulau Senang prison riots, which led to four murders of prison officers and the subsequent executions of Tan and 17 other rioters
Teo Boon Ann (1990)
Teo Kim Hong (1996)
John Thanos (1994) first post-Gregg execution in Maryland
Edith Thompson (1923)
Thomas Martin Thompson (1998)
Norman Thorne (1925)
Maksa Tohaiee (1993)
Too Yin Sheong (1999)
Thomas Traynor (1921)
Karla Faye Tucker (1998)
Ronald Turpin (1962) one of the last two executions in Canada
Robert Van Hook (2018) most recent execution in Ohio
Hans Vollenweider (1940) last execution in Switzerland
Charles Walker (1990) first post-Gregg execution in Illinois
Berthold Wehmeyer (1949)
Keith Wells (1994) first post-Gregg execution in Idaho
Thomas Whelan (1921)
Jerry White (1995)
Alfred Charles Whiteway (1953)
Dennis Whitty (1963)
Keith Daniel Williams (1996)
Robert Wayne Williams (1983) first post-Gregg execution in Louisiana
Thomas Williams (1942)
Rhoda Willis (1907) last woman executed in Wales
Mimi Wong, the first female offender to be executed in Singapore since its independence in 1965 (1973)
Joseph Wood (2014)
Nathaniel Woods (2020)
Eric Wrinkles (2009) most recent execution in Indiana
Edmund Zagorski (2018)
Keith Zettlemoyer (1995) first post-Gregg execution in Pennsylvania
William G. Zuern Jr. (2004)

Mass murder

Floyd Allen (1913)
Ali Amrozi bin Haji Nurhasyim (2008)
Fritz Angerstein (1925)
Annice (1828)
Shoko Asahara (2018)
Bai Ningyang (2006)
Peter Barnes (1940)
Michael Barrett (1868) last public execution in the UK
Bangla Bhai (2007)
Dominick Bodkin (1740)
Bernard Bolender (1995)
Vernon Booher (1929)
Lester Bower (2015)
Earl Bramblett (2003)
Arthur Brown Jr. (2023)
John Brown (1859)
Richard Burgess (1866)
Abel Clemmons (1806)
Robert Raymond Cook (1960)
William Cook (1952)
Manuel Martínez Coronado (1998)
Ditbardh and Josef Cuko (1992)
Frederick Bailey Deeming (1892)
Marion Butler Dudley (2006)
Seiichi Endo (2018)
Samuel Ferguson (1865)
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi (1836)
Marvin Francois (1985)
James Governor (1901)
Jack Gilbert Graham (1957)
Joseph-Albert Guay (1951)
Joseph Hamilton (1906)
Robert Wayne Harris (2012)
George Hassell (1928)
Olga Hepnarová (1975)
Richard Hickock (1965)
Kenichi Hirose (2018)
Daniel Hittle (2000)
Daryl Holton (2007)
Dustin Honken (2020)
Hsu Tung-chih (1984)
Huda bin Abdul Haq (2008)
Yoshihiro Inoue (2018)
Jin Ruchao (2001)
Steven Timothy Judy (1981) first post-Gregg execution in Indiana
Ajmal Kasab (2012)
Marcin Kasprzak (1905)
Toivo Koljonen (1943)
James Lammers (1952)
John D. Lee (1877)
Vladimír Lulek (1989)
Jeffrey Lundgren (2006)
Vassilis Lymberis (1972) last execution in Greece
Ma Jiajue (2004)
Wiremu Kīngi Maketū (1842)
Luis Monge (1967)
James McCormick (1940)
Timothy McVeigh (2001) first post-Gregg execution by the United States federal government
Anatoly Nagiyev (1981)
Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri (1997)
Jay Wesley Neill (2002)
Tomomitsu Niimi (2018)
John Filip Nordlund (1900) last execution by axe in Sweden
Kazuaki Okazaki (2018)
Carl Panzram (1930)
Marguerite Pitre (1953)
Gilbert Postelle (2022)
Saeed al-Qashash (1999)
Giannis and Thymios Retzos (1930)
Généreux Ruest (1952)
Imam Samudra (2008)
Shi Yuejun (2008)
Andrey Shpagonov (1995)
George David Silva (1912)
Ronald Gene Simmons (1990)
Clay King Smith (2001)
Perry Smith (1965)
Roger Dale Stafford (1995)
Mamoru Takuma (2004)
Abraham Thomas (1958)
Masami Tsuchiya (2018)
Wang Binyu (2005)
Wang Xiwen (1981)
Coy Wayne Wesbrook (2016)
William James Williams (2005)
Hastings Arthur Wise (2005)
Yan Yanming (2005)
Yang Jia (2008)
Yang Zanyun (2019)
Thomas Young (1959)
Andrew Zondo (1986)

Serial killers

Frank Abbandando (1942) contract killer
Zaven Almazyan (1973) known as "the Voroshilovgrad Maniac"
Diogo Alves (1841) known as "the Aqueduct Murderer"
Klaas Annink (1775) known as "Huttenkloas"
Stephen Wayne Anderson (2002)
Velma Barfield (1984)
Donald Beardslee (2005)
Martha Beck (1951) known as one of the "Lonely Hearts Killers"
Oleksandr Berlizov (1972) known as "the Night Demon"
Mohammed Bijeh (2005) known as "the Vampire of the Tehran Desert"
Jake Bird (1949) known as "the Tacoma Axe Murderer"
Oscar Ray Bolin (2016)
William Bonin (1996)
Gary Ray Bowles (2019)
Judy Buenoano (1998) known as "the Black Widow"
Ted Bundy (1989)
Frank Carter (1927) known as "the Phantom Sniper"
Augustine Chacon (1902) known as "the Hairy One"
Oba Chandler (2011)
George Chapman (1903)
Gao Chengyong (2019) known as "the Gansu Ripper"
The Chijon family (1995) a South Korean gang
Andrei Chikatilo (1994) known as "the Butcher of Rostov"
John Christie (1953)
Eric Edgar Cooke (1964) known as "the Night Caller"
Thomas Neill Cream (1892) known as "the Lambeth Poisoner"
Gordon Cummins (1942) known as "the Blackout Ripper"
Sarah Dazley (1843) known as "the Potton Poisoner"
Williamina "Minnie" Dean (1895) only woman executed in New Zealand
Westley Allan Dodd (1993) first post-Gregg execution in Washington
Martin Dumollard (1862) known as "the Monster of Montluel"
Theodore Durrant (1898) known as "the Demon in the Belfry"
Amelia Dyer (1896) known as "the Ogress of Reading"
John Errol Ferguson (2013)
Raymond Fernandez (1951) known as one of the "Lonely Hearts Killers"
Albert Fish (1936) known as "the Brooklyn Vampire"
Joseph Paul Franklin (2013)
John Wayne Gacy (1994) known as "the Killer Clown"
Gilles Garnier (1573) known as "the Werewolf of Dole"
Carlton Gary (2018) known as "the Stocking Strangler"
Donald Henry Gaskins (1991) known as "the Redneck Charles Manson"
Harvey Glatman (1959) known as "the Glamour Girl Slayer"
Sergey Golovkin (1996) known as "the Boa", last execution in Russia
Fritz Haarmann (1925) known as "the Butcher of Hanover"
John George Haigh (1949) known as "the Acid Bath Murderer"
Saeed Hanaei (2002) known as "the Spider Killer"
William Henry Hance (1994) known as "the Force of Evil"
Robert Dale Henderson (1993)
H. H. Holmes (1896)
Yuri Ivanov (1989) known as "the Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac"
Thomas Jeffrey (1826) known as "Jeffries the Monster"
Hélène Jégado (1852)
Jack Harold Jones (2017)
John Joubert (1996) known as "the Woodford Slasher"
Willi Kimmritz (1950) perpetrator of the "Horror of the Brandenburg Forest" murders
Yoshio Kodaira (1949) known as "the Japanese Bluebeard"
Andrew Kokoraleis (1999) last execution in Illinois
Vasili Komaroff (1923) known as "the Wolf of Moscow"
Peter Kürten (1931) known as "the Vampire of Düsseldorf"
Henri Désiré Landru (1922) known as "the Bluebeard of Gambais"
Eddie Leonski (1942) known as "the Brownout Strangler"
Gamal Lineveldt (1941)
Robert Joseph "Bobby Joe" Long (2019) known as "the Adman Rapist"
John Lynch (1842) known as "the Berrima Axe Murderer"
Hiroshi Maeue (2009) known as "the Suicide Website Murderer"
Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour (2010)
Peter Manuel (1958) known as "the Beast of Birkenshaw"
Saad Iskandar Abdel Masih (1953)
David Mason (1993)
Vladislav Mazurkievitz (1957) known as "the Gentleman Killer"
Daisy de Melker (1932)
Igor Mirenkov (1996) perpetrator of the "Svetlogorsk Nightmare" murders
Tsutomu Miyazaki (2008) known as "the Otaku Murderer"
Stanislav Modzelevski (1969) known as "the Vampire of Galkovek"
Catherine Montvoisin (1680) known as "La Voisin"
Elifasi Msomi (1956)
Seisaku Nakamura (1943) known as "the Hamamatsu Deaf Killer"
Earle Nelson (1928) known as "the Dark Strangler"
Robert Nixon (1939) known as "Brick Moron"
Gordon Stewart Northcott (1930) known as "the Ape Man"
Paul Ogorzow (1941) known as "the S-Bahn Murderer"
Manuel "Manny" Pardo (2012)
Steven Brian Pennell (1992) known as "the Route 40 Killer", first post-Gregg execution in Delaware
Marcel Petiot (1946)
Thomas W. Piper (1876) known as "the Boston Belfry Murderer"
Harry Powers (1932) known as "the Bluebeard of West Virginia"
Alfredo Prieto (2015)
Marion Albert Pruett (1999) known as "the Mad Dog"
Gilles de Rais (1440) known as "Bluebeard"
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz (2006) known as "the Railroad Killer"
Darrell Keith Rich (2000) known as "the Hilltop Rapist"
Stephen D. Richards (1879) known as "the Nebraska Fiend", first execution in the State of Nebraska
Ion Rîmaru (1971) known as "the Vampire of Bucharest"
Daniel Rolling (2006) known as "the Gainesville Ripper"
Michael Bruce Ross (2005) first post-Gregg execution in Connecticut and last execution in Connecticut
Edward H. Rulloff (1871) known as "the Educated Killer"
Raya and Sakina (1920)
Tommy Lynn Sells (2014)
Abdullah Shah (2004) known as "Zardad's Dog"
Simicoudza Simicourba (1911)
Vasily Smirnov (1980) known as "the Gatchina Psychopath"
George Joseph Smith (1915) perpetrator of the "Brides in the Bath" murders
Arnold Sodeman (1936) known as "the Schoolgirl Strangler"
Timothy Wilson Spencer (1994) known as "the Southside Strangler"
Charles Starkweather (1959)
Vladimir Storozhenko (1982) known as "the Smolensk Strangler"
Peter Stumpp (1589) known as "the Werewolf of Bedburg"
Nicholas Todd Sutton (2020) most recent execution in Tennessee and via electric chair
François Tomasini (1914)
Jean-Baptiste Troppmann (1870) known as "the Human Tiger"
Joseph Vacher (1898) known as "the French Ripper"
Sek Kim Wah (1988) Singapore's first serial killer
Eugen Weidmann (1939) last public execution in France
Thomas Whisenhant (2010)
John Allen Williams known as "the Beltway Sniper"
Kenneth Williams (2017) most recent execution in Arkansas
Stanley Williams (2005)
Douglas Franklin Wright (1996) first post-Gregg execution in Oregon
Aileen Wuornos (2002)
Elias Xitavhudzi (1960) known as "the Pangaman"
Yang Xinhai (2004) known as "the Monster Killer"

Piracy

José Joaquim Almeida (1832)
Peter Alston (1804)
John Auger (1718)
Joseph Baker (1800)
Joseph Bannister (1687)
Eli Boggs (1861)
Stede Bonnet (1718)
Satyendranath Bosu (1908)
Joseph Bradish (1700)
Nicolas Brigaut (1686)
James Browne (1677)
Roberto Cofresí (1825)
Jacques Colaert (1600)
Richard Coyle (1738)
Mary Critchett (1729)
Alexander Dalzeel (1715)
Robert Deal (1721)
Kanailal Dutta (1908)
Alv Erlingsson (1290)
John Fenn (1723)
William Fly (1726)
Charles Gibbs (1831)
Pedro Gilbert (1835)
John Golden (1694)
Nathaniel Gordon (1862)
John Gow (1725)
Thomas Green (1705)
Jean Baptiste Guedry (1726)
Louis Guittar (1700)
Charles Harris (1723)
Klein Henszlein (1573)
David Herriot (1718)
Albert W. Hicks (1860)
Hendrick van Hoven (1699)
Calico Jack (1720)
Daniel Johnson (1675)
Peter Johnson (1672)
Edward Jordan (1809)
John Julian (1733)
William Kidd (1701)
James Kelly (1701)
Walter Kennedy (1721)
Olivier Levasseur (1730)
Narciso López (1851)
Peter Love (1610)
Matthew Luke (1722)
Philip Lyne (1726)
Simon Mascarino (1721)
Samuel Mason (1803)
Gottfried Michaelsen (1402)
Christopher Moody (1722)
Duncan Mackintosh (1689)
Jan Mendoses (1615)
Andrea Morisco (1308)
Pedro Ñancúpel (1888)
John Oxenham (1580)
Cabeza de Perro (18??)
John Prie (1727)
John Quelch (1704)
Walter Raleigh (1618)
Stenka Razin (1671)
Philip Roche (1723)
James Skyrme (1722)
Gustav Skytte (1663)
Benito de Soto (1830)
Filippo di Piero Strozzi (1582)
Thomas Sutton (1722)
Jacques Tavernier (1673)
Joseph Thompson (1719)
Jean Tristan (1693)
Charles Vane (1721)
Thomas Vaughan (1696)
Rachel Wall (1789) last woman executed in Massachusetts
Hennig Wichmann (1402)
Magister Wigbold (1401)
Nicholas Woodall (c.1718)
Wang Zhi (1560)
Chen Zuyi (1407)

Political opponents

Friedrich Akel (1941)
Marie Bouffa (1945)
Jacques Pierre Brissot (1793)
André Chénier (1794)
Galeazzo Ciano (1944)
Vladimír Clementis (1952)
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1938)
Georges Danton (1794)
Camille Desmoulins (1794)
Olympe de Gouges (1793)
İskilipli Mehmed Atıf Hoca (1926)
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1572)
Jüri Jaakson (1942)
William Joyce (1946)
Bronislav Kaminski (1944)
Michael Kitzelmann (1942)
Traicho Kostov (1949)
William Laud (1645)
Antoine Lavoisier (1794)
Antonio Llidó (1974)
William Alexander Morgan (1961)
Ippolit Myshkin (1885)
Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu (1954)
Viktor Pepelyayev (1920)
Nikola Petkov (1947)
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1541)
László Rajk (1949)
Madame Roland (1793)
Martemyan Ryutin (1927)
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1995)
Ivan Shcheglovitov (1918)
Hans Scholl (1943)
Sophie Scholl (1943)
Alexander Schmorell (1943)
Mohammad Musa Shafiq (1979)
Amir Sjarifuddin (1948)
Rudolf Slánský (1952)
José Calvo Sotelo (1936)
Koçi Xoxe (1949)
Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold (1974)
Yusuf Salman Yusuf (1949)

Political purges

Executed during the Night of the Long Knives (all in 1934)

Otto Ballerstedt
Herbert von Bose
Karl Ernst
Fritz Gerlich
Karl-Günther Heimsoth
Edmund Heines
Peter von Heydebreck
Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald
Edgar Jung
Gustav Ritter von Kahr
Erich Klausener
Adalbert Probst
Ernst Röhm
Kurt von Schleicher
Emil Sembach
Bernhard Stempfle
Gregor Strasser

Executed during the Great Purge

Alexander Abramov-Mirov (1937)
Valentine Adler (1942)
Maksim Ammosov (1938)
Zigmas Angarietis (1940)
Ecaterina Arbore (1937)
Sanjar Asfendiyarov (1938)
Urunboi Ashurov (1938)
Kaikhaziz Atabayev (1938)
Nedirbay Aytakov (1938)
Isaac Babel (1940)
Ivan Bakayev (1936)
Alexey Bakulin (1939)
Mikhail Batorsky (1938)
Alexander Beloborodov (1938)
Boris Berman (1939)
Matvei Berman (1939)
Konon Berman-Yurin (1936)
Sergei Bessonov (1941)
Anastasia Bitsenko (1938)
Waclaw Bogucki (1937)
Vladimir Bogushevsky (1939)
Mikhail Boguslavsky (1937)
Oskar Böhme (1938)
Georgy Bondar (1939)
Volf Bronner (1939)
Andrei Bubnov (1938)
Gavril Buciușcan (1937)
Nikolay Bukharin (1938)
Pavel Bulanov (1938)
Samson Chanba (1937)
Virendranath Chattopadhyaya (1937)
Mikhail Chernov (1938)
Vlas Chubar (1939)
Rose Cohen (1937)
Vladimir Ćopić (1939)
Nikolay Dobrokhotov (1938)
Yakov Drobnis (1937)
Ehsanollah Khan Dustdar (1939)
Sholom Dvolajckij (1937)
Roberts Eidemanis (1937)
Robert Eikhe (1940)
Efrem Eshba (1939)
Boris Feldman (1937)
Abdurauf Fitrat (1938)
George Fles (1939)
Leo Flieg (1939)
Lovett Fort-Whiteman (1939)
Mikhail Frinovsky (1940)
Aleksei Gastev (1939)
Grigori Grinko (1938)
Abraham Guloyan (1937)
Abdurrahim Hojibayev (1933)
Akmal Ikramov (1938)
Vladimir Ivanov (1938)
Abdullah Kadiri (1938)
Karl Kahl (1938)
Boris Kamkov (1937)
Lev Karakhan (1937)
Grigory Khakhanyan (1939)
Karim Khakimov (1938)
Aghasi Khanjian (1936)
Fayzulla Khodzhayev (1938)
Lazar Kogan (1939)
Mikhail Koltsov (1940)
August Kork (1937)
Boris Kornilov (1938)
Aleksandr Kosarev (1939)
Stanisław Kosior (1939)
Nikolai Krestinsky (1938)
Pyotr Kryuchkov (1938)
Béla Kun (1938)
Sariya Lakoba (1936)
Samuil Lehtțir (1937)
Lev Levin (1938)
Solomon Levit (1938)
Ghulam Ambia Khan Lohani (1938)
Nusratullo Maksum (1937)
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1940)
Levon Mirzoyan (1939)
Nikolay Matorin (1936)
Sergei Mrachkovsky (1936)
Anna Mukhamedov (1938)
Abani Mukherjee (1937)
Nikolay Muralov (1937)
Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (1940)
Osip Piatnitsky (1938)
Boris Pinson (1936)
Fritz Platten (1942)
Dmitry Pletnyov (1941)
Pavel Postyshev (1939)
Boris Pozern (1939)
Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1937)
Vitaly Primakov (1937)
Vitovt Putna (1937)
Georgy Pyatakov (1937)
Karl Radek (1939)
Abdullo Rakhimbayev (1938)
Christian Rakovsky (1941)
Nikolay Rattel (1939)
Mark Rein (1937)
Hermann Remmele (1939)
Barbora Rezlerová-Švarcová (1941)
Arkady Rosengolts (1938)
Aleksey Rykov (1938)
Timofei Sapronov (1937)
Murat Salihov (1938)
Rudolf Samoylovich (1939)
Filimon Săteanu (1937)
Leonid Serebryakov (1937)
Dmitry Shakhovskoy (1939)
Vasily Sharangovich (1938)
Alexander Shliapnikov (1937)
Shirinsho Shotemur (1937)
Alexander Shotman (1937)
Ivar Smilga (1938)
Aleksandr Petrovich Smirnov (1938)
Ivan Smirnov (1936)
Vladimir Smirnov (1937)
Pyotr Smorodin (1939)
Jan Sten (1937)
Boris Stomonyakov (1940)
Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev (1940)
Avetis Sultan-Zade (1938)
Béla Székely (1939)
Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan (1936)
Boris Tolpygo (1939)
Mikhail Trilisser (1940)
Vladimir Tsyganko (1938)
Kasym Tynystanov (1938)
Ieronim Uborevich (1937)
Nikolai Uglanov (1937)
Abdukadyr Urazbekov (1938)
Zinovy Ushakov (1940)
Aleksandr Uspensky (1940)
Iosif Vareikis (1938)
Nikolai Efimovich Varfolomeev (1939)
Mikhail Vasilyev-Yuzhin (1937)
Ivan Voronaev 9d. 1937)
Alexei Voshchakin (1937)
Gaspar Voskanyan (1937)
Genrikh Yagoda (1938)
Iona Yakir (1937)
Varvara Yakovleva (1941)
Victor Yartsev (1940)
Grigory Yevdokimov (1936)
Yu Xiusong (1939)
Aleksandr Yegorov (1939)
Yefim Yevdokimov (1940)
Nikolai Yezhov (1940)
Abdulhamid Yunusov (1938)
Pyotr Zalutsky (1937)
Isaak Zelensky (1938)
Berthe Zimmermann (1937)
Grigory Zinoviev (1936)
Dimitar Zlatarev (1937)
Prokopy Zubarev (1938)

Executed members of the 20 July plot

Ludwig Beck (1944)
Robert Bernardis (1944)
Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff (1945)
Hasso von Boehmer (1945)
Eugen Bolz (1945)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1945)
Klaus Bonhoeffer (1945)
Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal (1944)
Eduard Brücklmeier (1944)
Wilhelm Canaris (1945)
Walter Cramer (1944)
Alfred Delp (1945)
Heinrich zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1944)
Hans von Dohnanyi (1945)
Erich Fellgiebel (1944)
Eberhard Finckh (1944)
Reinhold Frank (1945)
Friedrich Fromm (1945)
Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1944)
Ludwig Gehre (1945)
Elisabeth and Erich Gloeden (1944)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1945)
Fritz Goerdeler (1945)
Nikolaus Gross (1945)
Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (1945)
Hans Bernd von Haeften (1944)
Werner von Haeften (1944)
Albrecht von Hagen (1944)
Nikolaus von Halem (1944)
Georg Hansen (1944)
Ernst von Harnack (1945)
Paul von Hase (1944)
Ulrich von Hassell (1944)
Theodor Haubach (1945)
Albrecht Haushofer (1945)
Egbert Hayessen (1944)
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff (1944)
Otto Herfurth (1944)
Erich Hoepner (1944)
Caesar von Hofacker (1944)
Roland von Hößlin (1944)
Friedrich Gustav Jaeger (1944)
Hans John (1945)
Otto Kiep (1944)
Hans Georg Klamroth (1944)
Friedrich Klausing (1944)
Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1945)
Hans Koch (1945)
Alfred Kranzfelder (1944)
Carl Langbehn (1944)
Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort (1944)
Julius Leber (1945)
Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod (1944)
Bernhard Letterhaus (1944)
Paul Lejeune-Jung (1944)
Franz Leuninger (1945)
Wilhelm Leuschner (1944)
Hans Otfried von Linstow (1944)
Ferdinand von Lüninck (1944)
Hermann Maaß (1944)
Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz (1944)
Michael von Matuschka (1944)
Joachim Meichssner (1944)
Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1944)
Joseph Müller (1944)
Arthur Nebe (1945)
Friedrich Olbricht (1944)
Hans Oster (1945)
Erwin Planck (1945)
Kurt von Plettenberg (1945)
Johannes Popitz (1945)
Friedrich von Rabenau (1945)
Adolf Reichwein (1944)
Alexis von Roenne (1944)
Erwin Rommel (1944)
Karl Sack (1945)
Joachim Sadrozinski (1944)
Anton Saefkow (1944)
Rüdiger Schleicher (1945)
Ernst Schneppenhorst (1945)
Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (1944)
Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg (1944)
Ludwig Schwamb (1945)
Günther Smend (1944)
Franz Sperr (1945)
Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1944)
Claus von Stauffenberg (1944)
Hellmuth Stieff (1944)
Theodor Strünck (1945)
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1944)
Fritz Thiele (1944)
Busso Thoma (1945)
Karl Freiherr von Thüngen (1944)
Adam von Trott zu Solz (1944)
Nikolaus von Üxküll-Gyllenband (1944)
Eduard Wagner (1944)
Hermann Josef Wehrle (1944)
Carl Wentzel (1944)
Josef Wirmer (1944)
Erwin von Witzleben (1944)
Peter Yorck von Wartenburg (1944)
Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg (1945)

Prisoners of war

Alexander George Arbuthnot and Robert C. Ambrister (1818) both hanged by Andrew Jackson
Marc Bloch (1944)
Emilio De Bono (1944)
Davy Crockett (1836)
Maximilian Kolbe (1941) volunteered himself in place of another
Élise Rivet (1945)
Elisabeth de Rothschild (1945)

Religious figures

Rabbi Akiva (c. AD 135) religious dissident
Avvakum (1682) religious dissent
Saint Joan of Arc (b. 1431) supposed heresy
Bartholomew (1st century AD)
Qutubuddin Shaheed (1648) Dawoodi Bohra Dai al Mutlaq
Giordano Bruno (1600) heresy
Thomas Cranmer (1556) heresy
Cardinal John Fisher (1535) religious dissent
Jan Hus (b. 1415) heresy
Jacob Hutter (1536) heresy
Saint James the Great (AD 44)
Jesus of Nazareth (c. AD 30–36) sedition
John Lambert (1538) heresy
Hugh Latimer (1555) heresy
Sir Thomas More (1535) religious dissent
Saint Paul (c. AD 64)
Saint Peter (c. AD 64)
Philip the Apostle (AD 80)
Michael Servetus (1553) heresy
Edward Wightman (1612) heresy
Lucilio Vanini (1619) apostasy

Robbery and theft

Manoranjan Bhattacharya (1932) armed robbery
Ramprasad Bismil (1927), armed robbery
Joseph Blake (1724)
Spence Broughton (1792)
Johannes Bückler (1803)
Caryl Chessman (1960)
Thomas Cox (1690)
Isaac Darkin (1761)
Jenny Diver (1741)
Claude Duval (1670)
Barbara Erni (1785), confidence trickster
Richard Ferguson (1800)
James Field (1751)
James Fitzpatrick (1778)
Eppelein von Gailingen (1381)
Captain Gallagher (1818)
Dimitar Obshti (1873)
Neesy O'Haughan (1720)
Captain Will Hollyday (1697)
Luke Hutton (1598)
Alexandru and Paul Ioanid (1959)
Constantia Jones (1738)
Thomas Edward Ketchum (1901)
Ashfaqulla Khan (1927)
Rajendra Lahiri (1927)
José Gregorio Liendo (1973) armed robbery
George Lyon (1815)
James MacLaine (1750)
Paulus Hector Mair (1579), embezzlement of public funds
Étienne Monier (1913)
Orxines (c.323 BC)
Ishola Oyenusi (1971) multiple counts of armed robbery and carjacking
Robert Palin (1861)
John Poulter (1754)
John Rann (1774)
Jakob "Hannikel" Reinhard (1787)
Biswanath Sardar (1808)
Jack Sheppard (1724)
Henry Simms (1747)
Robert Snooks (1802)
Amy Spain (1865), last female slave executed in the United States
William Spiggot (d 1721)
Dick Turpin (1739)
Jane Voss (1684)
Jonathan Wild (1725), corruption
Ann Wyley (1777), only black person executed in Michigan

Sexual offences

Homosexuality

Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477), German cross dressing lesbian executed for heresy against nature after having used a dildo on two female partners.
John Atherton (1640), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore
Jacopo Bonfadio (1550), Italian humanist and historian
Francesco Calcagno (1550), Venician Franciscan friar.
Giovanni di Giovanni (1365), 15-year-old Italian boy charged with being "a public and notorious passive sodomite"
Lisbetha Olsdotter (1679), Swedish cross-dresser and early female soldier (disguised as a man).
Dominique Phinot (c.1556), French composer of the Renaissance
James Pratt and John Smith (1835), last two executions for sodomy in the UK
Tibira do Maranhão (1614), Brazilian Tupinambá executed for sodomy by French colonizers
Mervyn Tuchet (1631)

Sexual assault

Rape

Amnon (year unknown) incestual rape
John A. Bennett (1961) and attempted murder
Robert David Bennett (1932) last execution in Australia for a crime other than murder
Rainey Bethea (1936) last public execution in the United States
Jacques Chausson (1661) attempted homosexual rape of a young nobleman
Caryl Chessman (1960)
Richard Cornish (1625) homosexual rape of an endentured servant
Carlo Fantom (1643)
Thomas Knapton (1833)
José Gregorio Liendo (1973)
Martinsville Seven (1951) group of seven men convicted of gang rape
William McGee (1951)
Julius Morgan (1916)
Jeremiah Reeves (1958)
Mustapha Tabet (1993) police commissioner convicted of the kidnap and sexual assault of over 500 women, last execution in Morocco
Mervyn Tuchet (1631)

Paedophiles

Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni (2005)
Leo Echegaray (1999)
Li Feng (2003)
Luo Yanlin (2008)
Ronald Wolfe (1964)

Other sex offences

Claudine de Culam (1601) bestiality
Thomas Granger (1642) bestiality
Atefeh Rajabi (2004) adultery

Smuggling

Roger Casement (1916) arms trafficking
Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers (1986), drug trafficking
Andrew Chan (2015), drug trafficking
Ong Ah Chuan (1981), drug trafficking
Johannes van Damme (1994), drug trafficking
Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam (2022), drug trafficking
Vladislav Faibishenko and Yan Rokotov (1961)
Norasharee Gous (2022), drug trafficking
Arthur Gray (1748)
Derrick Gregory (1989), drug trafficking
Tony de la Guardia (1989), drug trafficking
Rodrigo Gularte (2015), drug trafficking
Thomas Kingsmill (1749)
Louis Mandrin (1755)
Michael McAuliffe (1993), drug trafficking
Marco Archer Moreira (2015), drug trafficking
Shanmugam Murugesu (2005), drug trafficking
Van Tuong Nguyen, (2005), drug trafficking
Abdul Kahar Othman (2022), drug trafficking
Akmal Shaikh (2009), drug trafficking
Kalwant Singh (2022), drug trafficking
Myuran Sukumaran (2015), drug trafficking
Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi (2007), drug trafficking
Zahra Bahrami (2011), drug trafficking

Treason

Antonio Osorio de Acuña (1526)
John Amery (1945)
George Johnson Armstrong (1941)
Humphrey Arundell (1550)
Hristo Atanasov (1908)
Anthony Babington (1586)
John Baird (1820)
Thomas Baker (1381)
John Ball (1381)
John Ballard (1586)
Thomas Bates (1606)
Jerome Bellamy (1586)
Nikos Beloyannis (1952)
Lavrenty Beria (1953)
Thomas Blount (1400)
Jeremiah Brandreth (1817)
John Brown (1859)
Thomas Bryan (1921)
Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (1753)
Roger Casement (1916)
Thomas Cranmer (1556)
Niren Dasgupta (1915)
William Davidson (1820)
Edward Despard (1803)
Everard Digby (1606)
Dragutin Dimitrijević (1917)
Henry Donn (1586)
Patrick Doyle (1921)
José María de Torrijos y Uriarte (1791)
Guy Fawkes (1606)
Gratien Fernando (1942)
Cardinal John Fisher (1535)
Henri de Fleury de Coulan (1666)
Frank Flood (1921)
Jopie Fourie (1914)
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (1747)
Robert Gage (1586)
Joseph Garang (1971)
Deniz Gezmiş (1972)
John Grant (1606)
Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan (1401)
Fethi Gürcan (1964)
Jack Hall (1716)
Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle (1323)
Andrew Hardie (1820)
Cai Hesen (1931)
Milada Horáková (1950)
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1572)
John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford (1537)
Kanao Inouye (1947)
Baillie of Jerviswood (1684)
William Joyce (1946)
Robert Keyes (1606)
Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai (1941)
Stanisław Kunicki (1886)
William Laud (1645)
Christopher Layer (1723)
Vasil Levski (1873)
Samuel Lount (1838)
Johannes Lötter (1901)
Marinus van der Lubbe (1934)
Abdel Khaliq Mahjub (1971)
Peter Matthews (1838)
Afanasi Matushenko (1907)
Vuyisile Mini (1964)
Qazi Mohammad (1947)
Sir Thomas More (1535)
David Morgan (1746)
Mengistu Neway (1961)
Michel Ney (1815)
John Nisbet (1685)
Arnaldo Ochoa (1989)
José Olaya (1823)
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1619)
Anzavur Ahmed Pasha (1921)
Henry Pedris (1915)
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel (1799)
Vishnu Ganesh Pingle (1915)
Pir of Pagaro VI (1943)
Carmelo Borg Pisani (1942)
Louis Riel (1885)
Ambrose Rookwood (1606)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1953)
Bernard Ryan (1921)
Fahmi Said (1941)
Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh (1945)
Policarpa Salavarrieta (1817)
Mahmud Salman (1942)
Heba Selim (1974)
Kamil Shabib (1944)
Pyotr Schmidt (1906)
Theodore Schurch (1946)
Duncan Scott-Ford (1942)
Manoranjan Sengupta (1915)
Abu Taher (1976)
Arthur Thistlewood (1820)
Chidiock Tichborne (1586)
Francis Towneley (1746)
Thomas Usk (1388)
Andrey Vlasov (1946)
Perkin Warbeck (1499)
Richard Whiting (1539)
James Wilson (1820)
Robert Wintour (1606)
Thomas Wintour (1606)
John Wrawe (1382)
Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1554)

Witchcraft

Other

Executed by Tudors

Beheaded

References

External links

USA Executions and Victims since 1977

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