List of people who were executed
Appearance
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.
Assassination
- Mohammad Abdullah (d. 1871) assassination of John Paxton Norman
- Sher Ali Afridi (d. 1872) assassination of Viceroy Lord Mayo
- Pakhomy Andreyushkin (d. 1887) conspiracy to assassinate Russian Emperor Aleksandr III
- Narayan Apte (d. 1949) assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
- George Atzerodt (d. 1865) conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln
- Jean Bastien-Thiry (d. 1963) attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle
- John Bellingham (d. 1812) assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
- Eliyahu Bet-Zuri (d. 1945) assassination of Lord Moyne
- Mehmet Arif Bey (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- İsmail Canbulat Bey (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Mehmed Cavid Bey (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Mehmed Nâzım Bey (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Ziya Hurşit Bey (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Dmitry Bogrov (d. 1911) assassination of Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin
- Lee Bong-chang (d. 1932) attempted assassination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito
- Yun Bong-gil (d. 1932) assassination of General Yoshinori Shirakawa
- Wilhelm Canaris (d. 1945) conspiracy to assassinate German Chancellor Adolf Hitler
- Charlotte Corday (d. 1793) assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
- Leon Czolgosz (d. 1901) assassination of US President William McKinley
- Madan Lal Dhingra (d. 1909) assassination of William Hutt Curzon Wyllie
- Albert Dovecar (d. 1962) assassination of Police Commissaire Roger Gavoury
- Reginald Dunne (d. 1922) assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson
- Muhammad abd-al-Salam Faraj (d. 1982) assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
- John Felton (d. 1628) assassination of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
- Vasily Generalov (d. 1887) conspiracy to assassinate Aleksandr III
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, (d. 1982) conspiracy to assassinate Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini
- Nathuram Godse (d. 1949) assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
- Paul Gorguloff (d. 1932) assassination of French President Paul Doumer
- Charles Guiteau (d. 1882) assassination of US President James A. Garfield
- Abdul Khaliq Hazara (d. 1933) assassination of Afghan King Mohammed Nadir Shah
- Eliyahu Hakim (d. 1945) assassination of Lord Moyne
- David Herold (d. 1865) assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Khalid al-Islambouli (d. 1982) assassination of Anwar Sadat
- Ivan Kalyayev (d. 1905) assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
- Lev Kamenev (d. 1935) assassination of Sergei Kirov
- Anant Laxman Kanhere (d. 1909) assassination of Collector A. M. T. Jackson
- Leonid Kannegisser (d. 1918) assassination of Moisei Uritsky
- Fanni Kaplan (d. 1918) attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin
- Mirza Reza Kermani (d. 1896) assassination of Iranian Shah Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
- Nikolai Kibalchich (d. 1881) assassination of Russian Emperor Aleksandr II
- Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (d. 1945) conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler
- Kim Jae-gyu (d. 1980) assassination of South Korean President Park Chung-hee
- Vsevolod Lebedintsev (d. 1908) conspiracy to assassinate Russian Minister of Justice Ivan Shcheglovitov
- Roderigo Lopez (d. 1595) attempted assassination of Queen Elizabeth I of England
- Louis Pierre Louvel (d. 1820) assassination of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
- Naseeruddin Mauzi (d. 1920) assassination of Robert William Douglas Willoughby
- Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (d. 1944) conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler
- Hafız Mehmet (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Timofey Mikhailov (d. 1881) assassination of Aleksandr II
- Rajnarayan Mishra (d. 1944) assassination of Robert William Douglas Willoughby
- Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud (d. 1975) assassination of king Faisal of Saudi Arabia
- Leonid Nikolaev (d. 1934) assassination of Sergei Kirov
- Eligiusz Niewiadomski (d. 1923) assassination of Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz
- Felice Orsini (d. 1858) attempted assassination of Emperor of the French Napoleon III
- Vasili Osipanov (d. 1887) conspiracy to assassinate Aleksandr III
- Joseph O'Sullivan (d. 1922) assassination of Sir Henry Wilson
- Rüştü Pasha (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Sophia Perovskaya (d. 1881) assassination of Aleksandr II
- Peter, son of Töre (d. 1198) assassination of Gertrude of Merania
- Claude Piegts (d. 1962) assassination of Roger Gavoury
- Michael Piekarski (d. 1620) attempted assassination of King Sigismund III
- Otto Planetta (d. 1934) assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
- Lewis Powell (d. 1865) conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and attempted assassination of US Secretary of State William Seward
- Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966) conspiracy to assassinate Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser
- François Ravaillac (d. 1610) assassination of King Henry IV of France
- Nikolai Rysakov (d. 1881) assassination of Aleksandr II
- Karl Sack (d. 1945) conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler
- Petr Shevyrev (d. 1887) conspiracy to assassinate Aleksandr III
- Beant Singh (d. 1989) assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
- Kehar Singh (d. 1989) assassination of Indira Gandhi
- Satwant Singh (d. 1989) assassination of Indira Gandhi
- Udham Singh (d. 1940) assassination of Michael O'Dwyer
- Friedrich Staps (d. 1809) attempted assassination of Emperor Napoleon
- Claus von Stauffenberg (d. 1944) attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler
- Khalil Tahmasebi (d. 1955) assassination of Iranian Prime Minister Ali Razmara
- William Thomas (d. 1554) conspiracy to assassinate Queen Mary I of England
- Adam von Trott zu Solz (d. 1944) conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler
- U Saw (d. 1948) assassination of Aung San
- Harikishan Talwar (d. 1931) attempted assassination of Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency
- Nguyen Van Troi (d. 1964) attempted assassination of Robert McNamara and future ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
- Mary Surratt (d. 1865) assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Aleksandr Ulyanov (d. 1887) conspiracy to assassinate Aleksandr III
- Auguste Vaillant (d. 1894) attempted assassination of members of the French Chamber of Deputies
- Huang Yiguang (d. 1940) attempted assassination of Wang Jingwei
- Giuseppe Zangara (d. 1933) assassination of Chicago mayor Anton Cermak
- Andrei Zhelyabov (d. 1881) assassination of Aleksandr II
Espionage
- Jack Agazarian (d. 1945)
- James J. Andrews (d. 1862)
- Yolande Beekman (d. 1944)
- Robert Benoist (d. 1944) and sabotage
- Denise Bloch (d. 1945)
- Carl Hans Lody (d. 1914)
- 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)
- Josef Jakobs (d. 1941)
- Cecily Lefort (d. 1945)
- Vera Leigh (d. 1944)
- John Kenneth Macalister (d. 1944)
- Karl Heinrich Meier (d. 1940)
- 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
- Karel Richard Richter (d. 1941)
- Lilian Rolfe (d. 1945) and sabotage
- 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
- Josef Waldberg (d. 1940)
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 (d. 1640), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore[1]
- Jacopo Bonfadio (d. 1550), Italian humanist and historian[2]
- Francesco Calcagno (d. 1550), Venician Franciscan friar.[3]
- Giovanni di Giovanni (d. 1365), 15-year-old Italian boy charged with being "a public and notorious passive sodomite"[4][5]
- Lisbetha Olsdotter (d. 1679), Swedish cross-dresser and early female soldier (disguised as a man).
- Dominique Phinot (d. c.1556), French composer of the Renaissance[6]
- James Pratt and John Smith (d. 1835), two London men who became the last two people to be executed for sodomy in the UK
Murder
- Jack Alderman (d. 2008)
- Peter Anthony Allen (d. 1964) one of the last two criminals executed in the UK
- Johan Alfred Ander (d. 1910) last criminal executed in Sweden
- James Arcene (d. 1885) and robbery
- Ahmad Najib Aris (d. 2016)
- Herbert Rowse Armstrong (d. 1922)
- Hesham Ashmawy (d. 2020)
- Hıdır Aslan (d. 1984) last criminal executed in Turkey
- Jean-Charles-Alphonse Avinain (d. 1867)
- Manny Babbitt (d. 1999)
- Billy Bailey (d. 1996)
- Kevin Barry (d. 1920)
- John Battaglia (d. 2018)
- Jereboam O. Beauchamp (d. 1826)
- Noah Beauchamp (d. 1842)
- Grete Beier (d. 1908) the last woman to be publicly executed in the Kingdom of Saxony
- Derek Bentley (d. 1953) pardoned
- Brandon Bernard (d. 2020)
- Bhabani Prasad Bhattacharya (d. 1935)
- Manoranjan Bhattacharya (d. 1932) and armed robbery
- Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya (d. 1933)
- Kenneth Biros (d. 2009) also rape, robbery, and sexual penetration
- Ramakrishna Biswas (d. 1931)
- Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé (d. 1851)
- Charu Chandra Bose (d. 1909)
- Khudiram Bose (d. 1908)
- Claude Buffet (d. 1972)
- Henry John Burnett (d. 1963) last criminal executed in Scotland
- Edwin Bush (d. 1961)
- Elizabeth Butchill (d. 1780)
- Frederick Bywaters (d. 1923)
- Charles Campbell (d. 1994)
- Jérôme Carrein (d. 1977)
- Beatrice Cenci (d. 1599)
- Brajakishore Chakraborty (d. 1934)
- Dhananjoy Chatterjee (d. 2004)
- Botak Chin (d. 1981)
- Lim Chin Chong (d. 1998)
- Pramod Ranjan Choudhury (d. 1926)
- Styllou Christofi (d. 1954)
- James Lee Clark (d. 2007)
- Wilbert Coffin (d. 1956)
- Flor Contemplación (d. 1995)
- James Copeland (d. 1857)
- James Corbitt (d. 1950)
- Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (d. 1910)
- Ba Cụt (d. 1956)
- John Dickman (d. 1910)
- Hamida Djandoubi (d. 1977) last criminal executed in France
- Samuel Herbert Dougal (d. 1903)
- Mrigendra Dutta (d. 1933)
- Ruth Ellis (d. 1955) last woman executed in the UK
- Gwynne Owen Evans (d. 1964) one of the last two criminals executed in the UK
- John Louis Evans (d. 1983)
- Timothy Evans (d. 1950) pardoned
- Jason Fairbanks (d. 1801)
- Mona Fandey (d. 2001)
- Edmond Foley (d. 1921)
- Francis Forsyth (d. 1960)
- Sidney Harry Fox (d. 1930)
- Juan Garza (d. 2001)
- Nirmal Jibon Ghosh (d. 1934)
- Gary Gilmore (d. 1977)
- Barbara Graham (d. 1955)
- Oswald Grey (d. 1962)
- Biren Datta Gupta (d. 1910)
- Dinesh Gupta (d. 1931)
- James Hanratty (d. 1962)
- Bruno Hauptmann (d. 1936)
- Frederick John Harris (d. 1965)
- Robert Alton Harris (d. 1992)
- Neville Heath (d. 1946)
- Dustin Higgs (d. 2021)
- Joe Hill (d. 1915)
- Paul Jennings Hill (d. 2003)
- Walter Horsford (d. 1898)
- Took Leng How (d. 2006)
- James Inglis (d. 1951)
- Paul Irniger (d. 1939)
- Kho Jabing (d. 2016)
- Juliana (d. ca. 1542)
- Michalis Karaolis (d. 1956)
- İbrahim Kaypakkaya (d. 1973)
- Ned Kelly (d. 1880) and armed robbery
- William Kemmler (d. 1890)
- Thomas Kent (d. 1916)
- Charles Kerins (d. 1944)
- François Claudius Koenigstein (d. 1892)
- Pierre François Lacenaire (d. 1836)
- LaGrand brothers (d. 2001) and armed robbery
- Lela Pandak Lam (d. 1877)
- Antoine Léger (d. 1824)
- Teresa Lewis (d. 2010)
- José Gregorio Liendo (d. 1973) also robbery and rape
- Adrian Lim (d. 1988) notorious child killer in Singapore
- Raymond Lisenba (d. 1942) last criminal executed by hanging in California
- Arthur Lucas (d. 1962) one of the last two criminals executed in Canada
- Patrick Maher (d. 1921)
- Solomon Mahlangu (d. 1979)
- Mahsuri (d. 1819)
- Mampuru II (d. 1883)
- Michael Manning (d. 1954) last criminal executed in the Republic of Ireland
- Mahmood Hussein Mattan (d. 1952) pardoned
- Robert McGladdery (d. 1961) last criminal executed in Northern Ireland
- Daisy de Melker (d. 1932)
- Louisa May Merrifield (d. 1953)
- Anthony Miller (d. 1960) last teenager executed in the UK
- Anantahari Mitra (d. 1926)
- Benjamin Moloise (d. 1985)
- Thomas Hartley Montgomery (d. 1873) only Irish policeman sentenced to death for murder
- Patrick Moran (d. 1921)
- Shukri Mustafa (d. 1978)
- Mun Se-gwang (d. 1974)
- Hester Rebecca Nepping (d. 1812)
- Susan Newell (d. 1923) last woman executed in Scotland
- Solomon Ngobeni (d. 1989) last criminal executed in South Africa
- Anath Bondhu Panja (d. 1933)
- Zsiga Pankotia (d. 1961)
- Russell Pascoe (d. 1963)
- Harry Pierpont (d. 1934)
- Guenther Podola (d. 1959) last person executed in the UK for the murder of a policeman
- Victor Prévost (d. 1880)
- Christian Ranucci (d. 1976)
- Joseph Riaud (d. 1876)
- Alfred Rouse (d. 1931)
- Ramkrishna Roy (d. 1934)
- Buck Ruxton (d. 1936)
- Sacco and Vanzetti (d. 1927)
- Gopinath Saha (d. 1924)
- August Sangret (d. 1943)
- Utuwankande Sura Saradiel (d. 1864) and armed robbery
- Richard Schuh (d. 1949)
- Frederick Seddon (d. 1912)
- Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (d. 1760)
- Baikuntha Shukla (d. 1934)
- Roshan Singh (d. 1927)
- Bhagat Singh (d. 1931)
- Sukhdev (d. 1931)
- Shivaram Rajguru (d. 1931)
- Ahmad Isma'il 'Uthman Saleh (d. 2000)
- Võ Thị Sáu (d. 1952)
- Boysie Singh (d. 1957)
- James Smith (d. 1962)
- Sandra Smith (d. 1989) last woman executed in South Africa
- John Frederick Stockwell (d. 1934)
- Edith Thompson (d. 1923)
- Norman Thorne (d. 1925)
- Thomas Traynor (d. 1921)
- Karla Faye Tucker (d. 1998)
- Ronald Turpin (d. 1962) one of the last two criminals executed in Canada
- Hans Vollenweider (d. 1940) last criminal executed in Switzerland by guillotine
- Berthold Wehmeyer (d. 1949)
- Thomas Whelan (d. 1921)
- Jerry White (d. 1995)
- Alfred Charles Whiteway (d. 1953)
- Dennis Whitty (d. 1963)
- Thomas Williams (d. 1942)
- Rhoda Willis (d. 1907) last woman executed in Wales
- Edmund Zagorski (d. 2018)
Mass murder
- Floyd Allen (d. 1913)
- Ali Amrozi bin Haji Nurhasyim (d. 2008)
- Fritz Angerstein (d. 1925)
- Annice (d. 1828)
- Shoko Asahara (d. 2018)
- Bai Ningyang (d. 2006)
- Peter Barnes (d. 1940)
- Michael Barrett (d. 1868) last criminal publicly executed in the UK
- Bangla Bhai (d. 2007)
- Dominick Bodkin (d. 1740)
- Bernard Bolender (d. 1995)
- Vernon Booher (d. 1929)
- Lester Bower (d. 2015)
- Earl Bramblett (d. 2003)
- Richard Burgess (d. 1866)
- Abel Clemmons (d. 1806)
- Robert Raymond Cook (d. 1960)
- William Cook (d. 1952)
- Manuel Martínez Coronado (d. 1998)
- Ditbardh and Josef Cuko (d. 1992)
- Frederick Bailey Deeming (d. 1892)
- Marion Butler Dudley (d. 2006)
- Seiichi Endo (d. 2018)
- Samuel Ferguson (d. 1865)
- Giuseppe Marco Fieschi (d. 1836)
- James Governor (d. 1901)
- Jack Gilbert Graham (d. 1957)
- Joseph-Albert Guay (d. 1951)
- Joseph Hamilton (d. 1906)
- Robert Wayne Harris (d. 2012)
- George Hassell (d. 1928)
- Olga Hepnarová (d. 1975)
- Richard Hickock (d. 1965)
- Kenichi Hirose (d. 2018)
- Daniel Hittle (d. 2000)
- Daryl Holton (d. 2007)
- Dustin Honken (d. 2020)
- Hsu Tung-chih (d. 1984)
- Huda bin Abdul Haq (d. 2008)
- Yoshihiro Inoue (d. 2018)
- Jin Ruchao (d. 2001)
- Steven Timothy Judy (d. 1981)
- Ajmal Kasab (d. 2012)
- Marcin Kasprzak (d. 1905)
- Toivo Koljonen (d. 1943)
- James Lammers (d. 1952)
- John D. Lee (d. 1877)
- Vladimír Lulek (d. 1989)
- Jeffrey Lundgren (d. 2006)
- Vassilis Lymberis (d. 1972) last criminal executed in Greece
- Ma Jiajue (d. 2004)
- Wiremu Kīngi Maketū (d. 1842)
- Luis Monge (d. 1967)
- James McCormick (d. 1940)
- Timothy McVeigh (d. 2001)
- Anatoly Nagiyev (d. 1981)
- Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri (d. 1997)
- Jay Wesley Neill (d. 2002)
- Tomomitsu Niimi (d. 2018)
- John Filip Nordlund (d. 1900) last criminal executed by axe in Sweden
- Kazuaki Okazaki (d. 2018)
- Carl Panzram (d. 1930)
- Marguerite Pitre (d. 1953)
- Gilbert Postelle (d. 2022)
- Saeed al-Qashash (d. 1999)
- Giannis and Thymios Retzos (d. 1930)
- Généreux Ruest (d. 1952)
- Imam Samudra (d. 2008)
- Shi Yuejun (d. 2008)
- Andrey Shpagonov (d. 1995)
- George David Silva (d. 1912)
- Ronald Gene Simmons (d. 1990)
- Clay King Smith (d. 2001)
- Perry Smith (d. 1965)
- Roger Dale Stafford (d. 1995)
- Mamoru Takuma (d. 2004)
- Abraham Thomas (d. 1958)
- Masami Tsuchiya (d. 2018)
- Wang Binyu (d. 2005)
- Wang Xiwen (d. 1981)
- Coy Wayne Wesbrook (d. 2016)
- William James Williams (d. 2005)
- Hastings Arthur Wise (d. 2005)
- Yan Yanming (d. 2005)
- Yang Jia (d. 2008)
- Yang Zanyun (d. 2019)
- Thomas Young (d. 1959)
- Andrew Zondo (d. 1986)
Serial killers
- Frank Abbandando (d. 1942) contract killer
- Zaven Almazyan (d. 1973) known as the "Voroshilovgrad Maniac"
- Diogo Alves (d. 1841) known as the "Aqueduct Murderer"
- Klaas Annink (d. 1775) known as "Huttenkloas"
- Stephen Wayne Anderson (d. 2002)
- Martha Beck (d. 1951) known as one of the "Lonely Hearts Killers"
- Oleksandr Berlizov (d. 1972) known as the "Night Demon"
- Mohammed Bijeh (d. 2005) known as the "Vampire of the Tehran Desert"
- Jake Bird (d. 1949) known as the "Tacoma Axe Murderer"
- William Bonin (d. 1996)
- Gary Ray Bowles (d. 2019)
- Judy Buenoano (d. 1998) known as the "Black Widow"
- Ted Bundy (d. 1989)
- Frank Carter (d. 1927) known as the "Phantom Sniper"
- Augustine Chacon (d. 1902) known as the "Hairy One"
- Oba Chandler (d. 2011)
- George Chapman (d. 1903)
- Gao Chengyong (d. 2019) known as the "Gansu Ripper"
- The Chijon family (d. 1995) a South Korean gang
- Andrei Chikatilo (d. 1994) known as the "Butcher of Rostov"
- John Christie (d. 1953)
- Eric Edgar Cooke (d. 1964) known as the "Night Caller"
- Thomas Neill Cream (d. 1892) known as the "Lambeth Poisoner"
- Gordon Cummins (d. 1942) known as the "Blackout Ripper"
- Sarah Dazley (d. 1843) known as the "Potton Poisoner"
- Williamina "Minnie" Dean (d. 1895) only woman executed in New Zealand
- Martin Dumollard (d. 1862) known as the "Monster of Montluel"
- Theodore Durrant (d. 1898) known as the "Demon in the Belfry"
- Amelia Dyer (d. 1896) known as the "Ogress of Reading"
- Raymond Fernandez (d. 1951) known as one of the "Lonely Hearts Killers"
- Albert Fish (d. 1936) known as the "Brooklyn Vampire"
- Joseph Paul Franklin (d. 2013)
- John Wayne Gacy (d. 1994) known as the "Killer Clown"
- Gilles Garnier (d. 1573) known as the "Werewolf of Dole"
- Carlton Gary (d. 2018) known as the "Stocking Strangler"
- Donald Henry Gaskins (d. 1991) known as the "Redneck Charles Manson"
- Harvey Glatman (d. 1959) known as the "Glamour Girl Slayer"
- Sergey Golovkin (d. 1996) known as the "Boa", last criminal executed in Russia
- Fritz Haarmann (d. 1925) known as the "Butcher of Hanover"
- John George Haigh (d. 1949) known as the "Acid Bath Murderer"
- Saeed Hanaei (d. 2002) known as the "Spider Killer"
- William Henry Hance (d. 1994) known as the "Force of Evil"
- Robert Dale Henderson (d. 1993)
- H. H. Holmes (d. 1896)
- Yuri Ivanov (d. 1989) known as the "Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac"
- Thomas Jeffrey (d. 1826) known as "Jeffries the Monster"
- Hélène Jégado (d. 1852)
- John Joubert (d. 1996) known as the "Woodford Slasher"
- Willi Kimmritz (d. 1950) perpetrator of the "Horror of the Brandenburg Forest" murders
- Yoshio Kodaira (d. 1949) known as the "Japanese Bluebeard"
- Vasili Komaroff (d. 1923) known as the "Wolf of Moscow"
- Peter Kürten (d. 1931) known as the "Vampire of Düsseldorf"
- Henri Désiré Landru (d. 1922) known as the "Bluebeard of Gambais"
- Eddie Leonski (d. 1942) known as the "Brownout Strangler"
- Gamal Lineveldt (d. 1941)
- Robert Joseph "Bobby Joe" Long (d. 2019) known as the "Adman Rapist"
- John Lynch (d. 1842) known as the "Berrima Axe Murderer"
- Hiroshi Maeue (d. 2009) known as the "Suicide Website Murderer"
- Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour (d. 2010)
- Peter Manuel (d. 1958) known as the "Beast of Birkenshaw"
- Saad Iskandar Abdel Masih (d. 1953)
- Vladislav Mazurkievitz (d. 1957) known as the "Gentleman Killer"
- Daisy de Melker (d. 1932)
- Igor Mirenkov (d. 1996) perpetrator of the "Svetlogorsk Nightmare" murders
- Tsutomu Miyazaki (d. 2008) known as the "Otaku Murderer"
- Stanislav Modzelevski (d. 1969) known as the "Vampire of Galkovek"
- Catherine Montvoisin (d. 1680) known as "La Voisin"
- Elifasi Msomi (d. 1956)
- Seisaku Nakamura (d. 1943) known as the "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer"
- Earle Nelson (d. 1928) known as the "Dark Strangler"
- Robert Nixon (d. 1939) known as "Brick Moron"
- Gordon Stewart Northcott (d. 1930) known as the "Ape Man"
- Paul Ogorzow (d. 1941) known as the "S-Bahn Murderer"
- Manuel "Manny" Pardo (d. 2012)
- Steven Brian Pennell (d. 1992) known as the "Route 40 Killer"
- Marcel Petiot (d. 1946)
- Thomas W. Piper (d. 1876) known as the "Boston Belfry Murderer"
- Harry Powers (d. 1932) known as the "Bluebeard of West Virginia"
- Marion Albert Pruett (d. 1999) known as the "Mad Dog"
- Gilles de Rais (d. 1440) known as "Bluebeard"
- Ángel Maturino Reséndiz (d. 2006) known as the "Railroad Killer"
- Stephen D. Richards (d. 1879) known as the "Nebraska Fiend", first criminal executed in the State of Nebraska
- Ion Rîmaru (d. 1971) known as the "Vampire of Bucharest"
- Daniel Rolling (d. 2006) known as the "Gainesville Ripper"
- Edward H. Rulloff (d. 1871) known as the "Educated Killer"
- Raya and Sakina (d. 1920)
- Tommy Lynn Sells (d. 2014)
- Abdullah Shah (d. 2004) known as "Zardad's Dog"
- Simicoudza Simicourba (d. 1911)
- Vasily Smirnov (d. 1980) known as the "Gatchina Psychopath"
- George Joseph Smith (d. 1915) perpetrator of the "Brides in the Bath Murders"
- Arnold Sodeman (d. 1936) known as the "Schoolgirl Strangler"
- Timothy Wilson Spencer (d. 1994) known as the "Southside Strangler"
- Charles Starkweather (d. 1959)
- Vladimir Storozhenko (d. 1982) known as the "Smolensk Strangler"
- Peter Stumpp (d. 1589) known as the "Werewolf of Bedburg"
- François Tomasini (d. 1914)
- Jean-Baptiste Troppmann (d. 1870) known as the "Human Tiger"
- Joseph Vacher (d. 1898) known as the "French Ripper"
- Sek Kim Wah (d. 1988) Singapore's first serial killer
- Eugen Weidmann (d. 1939) last criminal publicly executed in France
- John Allen Williams known as the "Beltway Sniper"
- Stanley Williams (d. 2005)
- Aileen Wuornos (d. 2002)
- Elias Xitavhudzi (d. 1960) known as the "Pangaman"
- Yang Xinhai (d. 2004) known as the "Monster Killer"
Piracy
- José Joaquim Almeida (d. 1832)
- Peter Alston (d. 1804)
- John Auger (d. 1718)
- Joseph Baker (d. 1800)
- Joseph Bannister (d. 1687)
- Eli Boggs (d. 1861)
- Stede Bonnet (d. 1718)
- Satyendranath Bosu (d. 1908)
- Joseph Bradish (d. 1700)
- Nicolas Brigaut (d. 1686)
- James Browne (d. 1677)
- Roberto Cofresí (d. 1825)
- Jacques Colaert (d. 1600)
- Richard Coyle (d. 1738)
- Mary Critchett (d. 1729)
- Alexander Dalzeel (d. 1715)
- Robert Deal (d. 1721)
- Kanailal Dutta (d. 1908)
- Alv Erlingsson (d. 1290)
- John Fenn (d. 1723)
- William Fly (d. 1726)
- Charles Gibbs (d. 1831)
- Pedro Gilbert (d. 1835)
- John Golden (d. 1694)
- Nathaniel Gordon (d. 1862)
- John Gow (d. 1725)
- Thomas Green (d. 1705)
- Jean Baptiste Guedry (d. 1726)
- Louis Guittar (d. 1700)
- Charles Harris (d. 1723)
- Klein Henszlein (d. 1573)
- David Herriot (d. 1718)
- Albert W. Hicks (d. 1860)
- Hendrick van Hoven (d. 1699)
- Calico Jack (d. 1720)
- Daniel Johnson (d. 1675)
- Peter Johnson (d. 1672)
- Edward Jordan (d. 1809)
- John Julian (d. 1733)
- William Kidd (d. 1701)
- James Kelly (d. 1701)
- Walter Kennedy (d. 1721)
- Olivier Levasseur (d. 1730)
- Narciso López (d. 1851)
- Peter Love (d. 1610)
- Matthew Luke (d. 1722)
- Philip Lyne (d. 1726)
- Simon Mascarino (d. 1721)
- Samuel Mason (d. 1803)
- Gottfried Michaelsen (d. 1402)
- Christopher Moody (d. 1722)
- Duncan Mackintosh (d. 1689)
- Jan Mendoses (d. 1615)
- Andrea Morisco (d. 1308)
- Pedro Ñancúpel (d. 1888)
- John Oxenham (d. 1580)
- Cabeza de Perro (d. 18??)
- John Prie (d. 1727)
- John Quelch (d. 1704)
- Walter Raleigh (d. 1618)
- Stenka Razin (d. 1671)
- Philip Roche (d. 1723)
- James Skyrme (d. 1722)
- Gustav Skytte (d. 1663)
- Benito de Soto (d. 1830)
- Filippo di Piero Strozzi (d. 1582)
- Thomas Sutton (d. 1722)
- Jacques Tavernier (d. 1673)
- Joseph Thompson (d. 1719)
- Jean Tristan (d. 1693)
- Charles Vane (d. 1721)
- Thomas Vaughan (d. 1696)
- Rachel Wall (d. 1789) last woman executed in Massachusetts
- Hennig Wichmann (d. 1402)
- Magister Wigbold (d. 1401)
- Nicholas Woodall (d. c.1718)
- Wang Zhi (d. 1560)
- Chen Zuyi (d. 1407)
Political figures
Deposed leaders and families
- Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong (d. 1979)
- Salim Rubai Ali (d. 1978)
- Akwasi Afrifa (d. 1979)
- Friedrich Akel (d. 1941)
- Fred Akuffo (d. 1979)
- Marie Antoinette (d. 1793)
- Ion Antonescu (d. 1946)
- Madame du Barry (d. 1793)
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (d. 1979)
- Maurice Bishop (d. 1983)
- Eugen Bolz (d. 1945)
- Long Boret (d. 1975)
- Adnan Menderes (d. 1961)
- Francisco Caamaño (d. 1973)
- Ștefan Cantacuzino (d. 1716)
- Elena Ceaușescu (d. 1989)
- Nicolae Ceaușescu (d. 1989)
- Cleopatra Selene of Syria (d. 69 BC)
- King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1649)
- Conradin (d. 1268)
- Constantine I of Georgia (d. 1412)
- Cuauhtémoc (d. 1525)
- Dafydd ap Gruffydd (d. 1283)
- David of Trebizond (d. 1463)
- Alois Eliáš (d. 1942)
- Madame Elisabeth (d. 1793)
- King Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
- Bogdan Filov (d. 1945)
- Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold (d. 1974)
- Amir Abbas Hoveida (d. 1979)
- Saddam Hussein (d. 2006)
- Agustín de Iturbide (d. 1823)
- Jüri Jaakson (d. 1942)
- Évariste Kimba (d. 1966)
- Aleksandr Kolchak (d. 1920)
- Pierre Laval (d. 1945)
- Eugen Leviné (d. 1919)
- King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
- Patrice Lumumba (d. 1961)
- Endelkachew Makonnen (d. 1974)
- Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
- Alphonse Massamba-Débat (d. 1977)
- Sisowath Sirik Matak (d. 1975)
- Maximilian of Mexico (d. 1867)
- Miguel Miramón (d. 1867)
- Francisco Morazán (d. 1842)
- Joachim Murat (d. 1815)
- Imre Nagy (d. 1958)
- Francisco Macías Nguema (d. 1979)
- Nicholas II and family (d. 1918)
- Jöran Persson (d. 1568)
- Vidkun Quisling (d. 1945)
- Maximilien Robespierre (d. 1794)
- Crown Prince Sado (d. 1762)
- Mohammad Musa Shafiq (d. 1979)
- Chris Soumokil (d. 1966)
- Ferenc Szálasi (d. 1946)
- Hong Tianguifu (d.1864)
- Wen Tianxiang (d. 1283)
- Jozef Tiso (d. 1947)
- Hideki Tōjō (d. 1948)
- Diarra Traoré (d. 1985)
- William Walker (d. 1860)
- William Wallace (d. 1305)
Political opponents
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (d. 1945)
- Marie Bouffa (d. 1945)
- Jacques Pierre Brissot (d. 1793)
- André Chénier (d. 1794)
- Galeazzo Ciano (d. 1944)
- Vladimír Clementis (d. 1952)
- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (d. 1938)
- Georges Danton (d. 1794)
- Demetrius (d. 330 BC)
- Camille Desmoulins (d. 1794)
- Amada García (d. 1938)
- Olympe de Gouges (d. 1793)
- İskilipli Mehmed Atıf Hoca (d. 1926)
- Michael Kitzelmann (d. 1942)
- Traicho Kostov (d. 1949)
- William Laud (d. 1645) and treason
- Antoine Lavoisier (d. 1794)
- Antonio Llidó (d. 1974)
- William Alexander Morgan (d. 1961)
- Ippolit Myshkin (d. 1885)
- Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (d. 1619)
- Hans Oster (d. 1945)
- Panyassis (d. 454 BC)
- Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu (d. 1954)
- Viktor Pepelyayev (d. 1920)
- Nikola Petkov (d. 1947)
- Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (d. 1541)
- Pavel Poltoratskiy (d. 1918)
- László Rajk (d. 1949)
- Madame Roland (d. 1793)
- Martemyan Ryutin (d. 1927)
- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (d. 1794)
- Ken Saro-Wiwa (d. 1995)
- Ivan Shcheglovitov (d. 1918)
- Hans Scholl (d. 1943)
- Sophie Scholl (d. 1943)
- Alexander Schmorell (d. 1943)
- Amir Sjarifuddin (d. 1948)
- Rudolf Slánský (d. 1952)
- José Calvo Sotelo (d. 1936)
- Chris Soumokil (d. 1966)
- Tiradentes (d. 1792)
- Dun Mikiel Xerri (d. 1799)
- Koçi Xoxe (d. 1949)
- Yusuf Salman Yusuf (d. 1949)
- Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg (d. 1945)
- Henri Zongo (d. 1989)
Prisoners of war
- Alexander George Arbuthnot and Robert C. Ambrister, both hanged by Andrew Jackson (d. 1818)
- 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)
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
Robbery and theft
- Ramprasad Bismil (d. 1927), armed robbery
- Joseph Blake (d. 1724)
- Spence Broughton (d. 1792)
- Johannes Bückler (d. 1803)
- Caryl Chessman (d. 1960), 17 counts of robbery, kidnapping, and rape
- Thomas Cox (d. 1690)
- Isaac Darkin (d. 1761)
- Jenny Diver (d. 1741)
- Claude Duval (d. 1670)
- Barbara Erni (d. 1785), confidence trickster
- Richard Ferguson (d. 1800)
- James Field (d. 1751)
- James Fitzpatrick (d. 1778)
- Eppelein von Gailingen (d. 1381)
- Captain Gallagher (d. 1818)
- Dimitar Obshti (d. 1873)
- Neesy O'Haughan (d. 1720)
- Captain Will Hollyday (d. 1697)
- Luke Hutton (d. 1598)
- Alexandru and Paul Ioanid (d. 1959)
- Constantia Jones (d. 1738)
- Thomas Edward Ketchum (d. 1901)
- Ashfaqulla Khan (d. 1927)
- Rajendra Lahiri (d. 1927)
- George Lyon (d. 1815)
- James MacLaine (d. 1750)
- Paulus Hector Mair (d. 1579), embezzlement of public funds
- Étienne Monier (d. 1913)
- Orxines (d. c.323 BC)
- Ishola Oyenusi (d. 1971) multiple counts of armed robbery and carjacking
- Robert Palin (d. 1861)
- John Poulter (d. 1754)
- John Rann (d. 1774)
- Jakob "Hannikel" Reinhard (d. 1787)
- Biswanath Sardar (d. 1808) also arson and armed revolt
- Jack Sheppard (d. 1724)
- Henry Simms (d. 1747)
- Robert Snooks (d. 1802)
- Amy Spain (d. 1865), last female slave executed in the United States
- William Spiggot (d 1721)
- Dick Turpin (d. 1739)
- Jane Voss (d. 1684)
- Jonathan Wild (d. 1725), corruption
- Ann Wyley (d. 1777), only black person executed in Michigan
Smuggling
- Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers (d. 1986), drug trafficking
- Andrew Chan (d. 2015), drug trafficking
- Ong Ah Chuan (d. 1981), drug trafficking
- Johannes van Damme (d. 1994), drug trafficking
- Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam (d. 2022), drug trafficking
- Vladislav Faibishenko and Yan Rokotov (d. 1961)
- Norasharee Gous (d. 2022), drug trafficking
- Arthur Gray (d. 1748)
- Derrick Gregory (d. 1989), drug trafficking
- Tony de la Guardia (d. 1989), drug trafficking
- Rodrigo Gularte (d. 2015), drug trafficking
- Thomas Kingsmill (d. 1749)
- Okeke Nelson Malachy (d. 2007), drug trafficking
- Louis Mandrin (d. 1755)
- Michael McAuliffe (d. 1993), drug trafficking
- Marco Archer Moreira (d. 2015), drug trafficking
- Shanmugam Murugesu (d. 2005), drug trafficking
- Van Tuong Nguyen, (d. 2005), drug trafficking
- Chijioke Stephen Obioha (d. 2007), drug trafficking
- Abdul Kahar Othman (d. 2022), drug trafficking
- Akmal Shaikh (d. 2009), drug trafficking
- Kalwant Singh (d. 2022), drug trafficking
- Myuran Sukumaran (d. 2015), drug trafficking
- Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi (d. 2007), drug trafficking
- Zahra Bahrami (d. 2011), drug trafficking
Treason
- Antonio Osorio de Acuña (d. 1526)
- John Amery (d. 1945)
- George Johnson Armstrong (d. 1941)
- Humphrey Arundell (d. 1550)
- Hristo Atanasov (d. 1908)
- Anthony Babington (d. 1586)
- John Baird (d. 1820)
- Thomas Baker (d. 1381)
- John Ball (d. 1381)
- John Ballard (d. 1586)
- Thomas Bates (d. 1606)
- Jerome Bellamy (d. 1586)
- Nikos Beloyannis (d. 1952)
- Lavrenty Beria (d. 1953)
- Thomas Blount (d. 1400)
- Jeremiah Brandreth (d. 1817)
- John Brown (d. 1859) treason, murder, conspiracy
- Thomas Bryan (d. 1921)
- Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (d. 1753)
- Roger Casement (d. 1916) treason, arms trafficking, sabotage, espionage
- Niren Dasgupta (d. 1915)
- William Davidson (d. 1820)
- Edward Despard (d. 1803)
- Everard Digby (d. 1606)
- Dragutin Dimitrijević (d. 1917)
- Henry Donn (d. 1586)
- Patrick Doyle (d. 1921)
- José María de Torrijos y Uriarte (d. 1791)
- Guy Fawkes (d. 1606) treason, conspiracy
- Gratien Fernando (d. 1942) treason, sabotage, espionage
- Henri de Fleury de Coulan (d. 1666)
- Frank Flood (d. 1921)
- Jopie Fourie (d. 1914)
- Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (d. 1747)
- Robert Gage (d. 1586)
- Joseph Garang (d. 1971)
- Deniz Gezmiş (d. 1972)
- John Grant (d. 1606)
- Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan (d. 1401)
- Fethi Gürcan (d. 1964)
- Jack Hall (d. 1716)
- Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle (d. 1323)
- Andrew Hardie (d. 1820)
- Cai Hesen (d. 1931)
- Milada Horáková (d. 1950)
- Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (d. 1572) treason, political opponent
- John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford (d. 1537)
- Kanao Inouye (d. 1947)
- Baillie of Jerviswood (d. 1684)
- William Joyce (d. 1946) treason, political opponent
- Robert Keyes (d. 1606)
- Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai (d. 1941)
- Stanisław Kunicki (d. 1886)
- Christopher Layer (d. 1723)
- Vasil Levski (d. 1873)
- Samuel Lount (d. 1838)
- Johannes Lötter (d. 1901) treason, murder, destruction of public property
- Abdel Khaliq Mahjub (d. 1971)
- Peter Matthews (d. 1838)
- Afanasi Matushenko (d. 1907)
- Vuyisile Mini (d. 1964) treason, murder, sabotage
- Qazi Mohammad (d. 1947)
- David Morgan (d. 1746)
- Mengistu Neway (d. 1961)
- Michel Ney (d. 1815)
- John Nisbet (d. 1685)
- Arnaldo Ochoa (d. 1989)
- José Olaya (d. 1823)
- Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (d. 1619)
- Anzavur Ahmed Pasha (d. 1921)
- Henry Pedris (d. 1915)
- Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel (d. 1799)
- Vishnu Ganesh Pingle (d. 1915)
- Pir of Pagaro VI (d. 1943)
- Carmelo Borg Pisani (d. 1942)
- Louis Riel (d. 1885)
- Ambrose Rookwood (d. 1606)
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (d. 1953) and conspiracy to commit espionage
- Bernard Ryan (d. 1921)
- Fahmi Said (d. 1941)
- Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh (d. 1945)
- Policarpa Salavarrieta (d. 1817)
- Mahmud Salman (d. 1942)
- Heba Selim (d. 1974) and espionage
- Kamil Shabib (d. 1944)
- Pyotr Schmidt (d. 1906)
- Theodore Schurch (d. 1946)
- Duncan Scott-Ford (d. 1942)
- Manoranjan Sengupta (d. 1915)
- Abu Taher (d. 1976)
- Arthur Thistlewood (d. 1820)
- Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586)
- Francis Towneley (d. 1746)
- Thomas Usk (d. 1388)
- Andrey Vlasov (d. 1946)
- Perkin Warbeck (d. 1499)
- Richard Whiting (d. 1539)
- James Wilson (d. 1820)
- Robert Wintour (d. 1606)
- Thomas Wintour (d. 1606)
- John Wrawe (d. 1382)
- Thomas Wyatt the Younger (d. 1554)
War crimes and crimes against humanity
- Abushiri (d. 1889) instigating violent insurrection
- Hameed Baloch (d. 1981) participating in violent insurrection
- Micaela Bastidas (d. 1781) instigating violent insurrection
- Ibrahim Bek (d. 1931) instigating violent insurrection
- Mehmed Kemâl Bey (d. 1919) perpetrator of the Armenian genocide
- Federico Fernández Cavada (d. 1871) instigating violent insurrection
- Vue Pa Chay (d. 1921) instigating violent insurrection
- Cornelius Colbert (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- James Connolly (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Thomas Clarke (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Kurt Daluege (d. 1946) perpetrator of the Lidice massacre
- Edward Daly (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Daskalogiannis (d. 1771) instigating violent insurrection
- Tarakeswar Dastidar (d. 1934) civilian guilty of levying war against His Imperial Majesty's Government
- Athanasios Diakos (d. 1821) instigating violent insurrection
- György Dózsa (d. 1514) mass murder and banditry
- Jean-Michel Duroy (d. 1795) instigating violent insurrection
- Tsanko Dyustabanov (d. 1876) instigating violent insurrection
- Adolf Eichmann (d. 1962) Holocaust perpetrator
- Robert Emmet (d. 1803) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Hans Frank (d. 1946) Holocaust perpetrator
- Wilhelm Frick (d. 1946) complicity in the Holocaust
- Amon Göth (d. 1946) Holocaust perpetrator
- Arthur Greiser (d. 1946) Holocaust perpetrator
- Irma Grese (d. 1945) murder and sexual assault of prisoners
- Ernesto Guevara (d. 1967) waging guerrilla war against the government of Bolivia
- Peter Handcock (d. 1902) massacre of Prisoners of War and civilians
- Kryštof Harant (d. 1621) instigating violent insurrection
- Hasan Hayri (d. 1925) complicity in violent insurrection
- John Hewston (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Charles Hindelang (d. 1839) instigating violent insurrection
- Andreas Hofer (d. 1810) instigating violent insurrection
- Georgi Izmirliev (d. 1876) instigating violent insurrection
- Wijard Jelckama (d. 1523)
- Hermann Jellinek (d. 1848) complicity in violent insurrection
- Alfred Jodl (d. 1946) massacre of Prisoners of War
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner (d. 1946) Holocaust perpetrator
- Wilhelm Keitel (d. 1946) massacre of Prisoners of War
- Edward Thomas Kent (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Matthew Keogh (d. 1798) massacre of civilians
- Peer Ali Khan (d. 1857) civilian guilty of levying war against the East India Company
- Dedan Kimathi (d. 1957) massacre of civilians
- Komarudin (d. 1949) instigating violent insurrection
- Jan Sladký Kozina (d. 1695) instigating violent insurrection
- Aleksandr Kvyatkovsky (d. 1880) terrorist offences
- Nguyễn Văn Lém (d. 1968) murder of Lt. Col. Nguyen Tuan and his family
- François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier (d. 1839) instigating violent insurrection
- Longinus of Selinus (d. 498) instigating violent insurrection
- John MacBride (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Seán MacDermott (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Thomas MacDonagh (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Muhammad Ali Madali (d. 1898) instigating violent insurrection
- Michael Mallin (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Moshe Marzouk (d. 1955) terrorist offences
- Larbi Ben M'hidi (d. 1957) instigating violent insurrection
- Maurice Moore (d. 1921) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Draža Mihailović (d. 1946) alleged ethnic cleansing and collaboration with the Nazis, conviction overturned in 2015
- Harry "Breaker" Morant (d. 1902) massacre of Prisoners of War and civilians
- Umar al-Mukhtar (d. 1931) instigating violent insurrection
- Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Naggar (d. 2000) terrorist offences
- Bhima Nayak (d. 1876) civilian guilty of levying war against the East India Company
- Jacques Vincent Ogé (d. 1791) instigating violent insurrection
- Michael O'Hanrahan (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Hassan bin Omari (d. 1895) instigating violent insurrection
- Evagoras Pallikarides (d. 1957) arms trafficking, civilian guilty of levying war against Her Majesty's Government in Cyprus
- Patrick Henry Pearse (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- William James Pearse (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Joseph Plunkett (d. 1916) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Hasan Polatkan (d. 1961) perpetrator of the Istanbul pogrom
- Gabriel Prosser (d. 1800) instigating a slave revolt
- Mateo Pumacahua (d. 1815) instigating violent insurrection
- José Rizal (d. 1896) instigating violent insurrection
- Thomas Russell (d. 1803) civilian guilty of levying war against His Majesty's Government
- Tal'at Fu'ad Qasim (d. 1995) terrorist offences
- Joachim von Ribbentrop (d. 1946) complicity in the Holocaust
- Seyid Riza (d. 1937) instigator of the Dersim rebellion
- Alfred Rosenberg (d. 1946) complicity in the Holocaust
- Sheikh Said (d. 1925) instigating violent insurrection
- Fritz Sauckel (d. 1946) mistreatment of forced labourers
- Gideon Scheepers (d. 1902) massacre of civilians and mistreatment of Prisoners of War
- Surya Sen (d. 1934) civilian guilty of levying war against His Imperial Majesty's Government
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart (d. 1946) complicity in the Holocaust
- Ram Baksh Singh (d. 1857) instigating violent insurrection
- Julius Streicher (d. 1946) complicity in the Holocaust
- Henry Wirz (d. 1865) mistreatment of Prisoners of War
- Tomoyuki Yamashita (d. 1946) perpetrator of the Rape of Manila
- Fatin Rüştü Zorlu (d. 1961) perpetrator of the Istanbul pogrom
Witchcraft
Other
Executed during the Great Purge
- Alexander Abramov-Mirov (d. 1937)
- Valentine Adler (d. 1942)
- Maksim Ammosov (d. 1938)
- Zigmas Angarietis (d. 1940)
- Ecaterina Arbore (d. 1937)
- Sanjar Asfendiyarov (d. 1938)
- Urunboi Ashurov (d. 1938)
- Kaikhaziz Atabayev (d. 1938)
- Nedirbay Aytakov (d. 1938)
- Isaac Babel (d. 1940)
- Ivan Bakayev (d. 1936)
- Alexey Bakulin (d. 1939)
- Mikhail Batorsky (d. 1938)
- Alexander Beloborodov (d. 1938)
- Boris Berman (d. 1939)
- Matvei Berman (d. 1939)
- Konon Berman-Yurin (d. 1936)
- Sergei Bessonov (d. 1941)
- Anastasia Bitsenko (d. 1938)
- Waclaw Bogucki (d. 1937)
- Vladimir Bogushevsky (d. 1939)
- Mikhail Boguslavsky (d. 1937)
- Oskar Böhme (d. 1938)
- Georgy Bondar (d. 1939)
- Volf Bronner (d. 1939)
- Andrei Bubnov (d. 1938)
- Gavril Buciușcan (d. 1937)
- Nikolay Bukharin (d. 1938)
- Pavel Bulanov (d. 1938)
- Samson Chanba (d. 1937)
- Virendranath Chattopadhyaya (d. 1937)
- Mikhail Chernov (d. 1938)
- Vlas Chubar (d. 1939)
- Rose Cohen (d. 1937)
- Vladimir Ćopić (d. 1939)
- Nikolay Dobrokhotov (d. 1938)
- Yakov Drobnis (d. 1937)
- Ehsanollah Khan Dustdar (d. 1939)
- Sholom Dvolajckij (d. 1937)
- Roberts Eidemanis (d. 1937)
- Robert Eikhe (d. 1940)
- Efrem Eshba (d. 1939)
- Boris Feldman (d. 1937)
- Abdurauf Fitrat (d. 1938)
- George Fles (d. 1939)
- Leo Flieg (d. 1939)
- Lovett Fort-Whiteman (d. 1939)
- Mikhail Frinovsky (d. 1940)
- Aleksei Gastev (d. 1939)
- Grigori Grinko (d. 1938)
- Abraham Guloyan (d. 1937)
- Abdurrahim Hojibayev (d. 1933)
- Akmal Ikramov (d. 1938)
- Vladimir Ivanov (d. 1938)
- Abdullah Kadiri (d. 1938)
- Karl Kahl (d. 1938)
- Boris Kamkov (d. 1937)
- Lev Karakhan (d. 1937)
- Grigory Khakhanyan (d. 1939)
- Karim Khakimov (d. 1938)
- Aghasi Khanjian (d. 1936)
- Fayzulla Khodzhayev (d. 1938)
- Lazar Kogan (d. 1939)
- Mikhail Koltsov (d. 1940)
- August Kork (d. 1937)
- Boris Kornilov (d. 1938)
- Aleksandr Kosarev (d. 1939)
- Stanisław Kosior (d. 1939)
- Nikolai Krestinsky (d. 1938)
- Pyotr Kryuchkov (d. 1938)
- Béla Kun (d. 1938)
- Sariya Lakoba (d. 1936)
- Samuil Lehtțir (d. 1937)
- Lev Levin (d. 1938)
- Solomon Levit (d. 1938)
- Ghulam Ambia Khan Lohani (d. 1938)
- Nusratullo Maksum (d. 1937)
- Vsevolod Meyerhold (d. 1940)
- Levon Mirzoyan (d. 1939)
- Nikolay Matorin (d. 1936)
- Sergei Mrachkovsky (d. 1936)
- Anna Mukhamedov (d. 1938)
- Abani Mukherjee (d. 1937)
- Nikolay Muralov (d. 1937)
- Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (d. 1940)
- Osip Piatnitsky (d. 1938)
- Boris Pinson (d. 1936)
- Fritz Platten (d. 1942)
- Dmitry Pletnyov (d. 1941)
- Pavel Postyshev (d. 1939)
- Boris Pozern (d. 1939)
- Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (d. 1937)
- Vitaly Primakov (d. 1937)
- Vitovt Putna (d. 1937)
- Georgy Pyatakov (d. 1937)
- Karl Radek (d. 1939)
- Abdullo Rakhimbayev (d. 1938)
- Christian Rakovsky (d. 1941)
- Nikolay Rattel (d. 1939)
- Mark Rein (d. 1937)
- Hermann Remmele (d. 1939)
- Barbora Rezlerová-Švarcová (d. 1941)
- Arkady Rosengolts (d. 1938)
- Aleksey Rykov (d. 1938)
- Timofei Sapronov (d. 1937)
- Murat Salihov (d. 1938)
- Rudolf Samoylovich (d. 1939)
- Filimon Săteanu (d. 1937)
- Leonid Serebryakov (d. 1937)
- Dmitry Shakhovskoy (d. 1939)
- Vasily Sharangovich (d. 1938)
- Alexander Shliapnikov (d. 1937)
- Shirinsho Shotemur (d. 1937)
- Alexander Shotman (d. 1937)
- Ivar Smilga (d. 1938)
- Aleksandr Petrovich Smirnov (d. 1938)
- Ivan Smirnov (d. 1936)
- Vladimir Smirnov (d. 1937)
- Pyotr Smorodin (d. 1939)
- Jan Sten (d. 1937)
- Boris Stomonyakov (d. 1940)
- Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev (d. 1940)
- Avetis Sultan-Zade (d. 1938)
- Béla Székely (d. 1939)
- Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan (d. 1936)
- Boris Tolpygo (d. 1939)
- Mikhail Trilisser (d. 1940)
- Vladimir Tsyganko (d. 1938)
- Kasym Tynystanov (d. 1938)
- Ieronim Uborevich (d. 1937)
- Nikolai Uglanov (d. 1937)
- Abdukadyr Urazbekov (d. 1938)
- Zinovy Ushakov (d. 1940)
- Aleksandr Uspensky (d. 1940)
- Iosif Vareikis (d. 1938)
- Nikolai Efimovich Varfolomeev (d. 1939)
- Mikhail Vasilyev-Yuzhin (d. 1937)
- Ivan Voronaev 9d. 1937)
- Alexei Voshchakin (d. 1937)
- Gaspar Voskanyan (d. 1937)
- Genrikh Yagoda (d. 1938)
- Iona Yakir (d. 1937)
- Varvara Yakovleva (d. 1941)
- Victor Yartsev (d. 1940)
- Grigory Yevdokimov (d. 1936)
- Yu Xiusong (d. 1939)
- Aleksandr Yegorov (d. 1939)
- Yefim Yevdokimov (d. 1940)
- Nikolai Yezhov (d. 1940)
- Abdulhamid Yunusov (d. 1938)
- Pyotr Zalutsky (d. 1937)
- Isaak Zelensky (d. 1938)
- Berthe Zimmermann (d. 1937)
- Grigory Zinoviev (d. 1936)
- Dimitar Zlatarev (d. 1937)
- Prokopy Zubarev (d. 1938)
Executed by Tudors
Beheaded
Burned as heretics
Other reasons
- Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni (d. 2005), homosexual rape of 13-year-old boy
- Marinus van der Lubbe (d. 1934), arson
- Arndt Pekurinen (d. 1944), conscientious objection
- Atefeh Rajabi (d. 2004), sex with an older man
- Eddie Slovik (d. 1945), desertion
- Lý Tự Trọng (d. 1931), attempted murder of police officers
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
- Lists of people executed in the United States
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