List of people who were executed

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

Murder

• 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
• William Bonin (d. 1996)
• Ted Bundy (d. 1989)
• Elizabeth Butchill (d. 1780)
• Frederick Bywaters (d. 1923)
• Charles Campbell (d. 1994)
• Beatrice Cenci (d. 1599)
• Dhananjoy Chatterjee (d. 2004)
• Andrei Chikatilo (d. 1994)
• John Christie (d. 1953)
• Styllou Christofi (d. 1954)
• 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)
• 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
• Harry Pierpont (d. 1934)
• Guenther Podola (d. 1959) last person hanged in UK for killing a policeman
• Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (d. 1760)
• Charles Starkweather (d. 1959)
• Mamoru Takuma (d. 2004)
• Edith Thompson (d. 1923)
• Jerry White (d. 1995)
• Stanley Williams (d. 2005)
• Aileen Wuornos (d. 2002)

Assassination

• 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 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
• 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)
• 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)
• Bhagat Singh (d. 1931)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

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
• 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

Other

• Fred Akuffo (d. 1979)
• Alexander George Arbuthnot, hanged by Andrew Jackson 1818
• Mahmoud Asgari (d. 2005) homosexual rape of 13 year old boy
• 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
• Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg (d. 1945) involvement in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler
• Catherine Howard (d. 1542) adultery
• Michael Kitzelmann (d. 1942) undermining the military (of Nazi Germany)
• Aleksandr Kolchak (d. 1920)
• 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 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, political opponent
• Louis Riel (d. 1885) revolutionary
• Madame Roland (d. 1793) revolutionary
• Salem Ali Rubayyi (d. 1978)
• Sacco and Vanzetti (d. 1927), murder, revolutionaries
• Eddie Slovik (d. 1945) desertion
• Tiradentes (d. 1792) revolutionary
• Dick Turpin (d. 1739) robbery
• Van Tuong Nguyen, (d. 2005), drug trafficking

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
• List of people executed by the Tudors
• List of people executed for homosexuality
• List of people executed for witchcraft
• List of people who were beheaded

External links

• USA Executions and Victims since 1977