List of people who were executed
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of people who were executed. The list is categorised by the crime causing the death penalty.
In order of date:
Contents |
[edit] Murder
- Stanley Williams (d. 2005)
- Dhananjoy Chatterjee (d. 2004)
- Mamoru Takuma (d. 2004[1])
- Paul Jennings Hill (d. 2003)
- Stephen Wayne Anderson (d. 2002)
- Aileen Wuornos (d. 2002)
- LaGrand brothers (d. 2001) and armed robbery
- Juan Garza (d. 2001)
- Manny Babbitt (d. 1999)
- Billy Bailey (d. 1996)
- William Bonin (d. 1996)
- Jerry White (d. 1995)
- Flor Contemplación (d. 1995)
- Andrei Chikatilo (d. 1994)
- John Wayne Gacy (d. 1994)
- Charles Campbell (d. 1994)
- Robert Alton Harris (d. 1992)
- Ted Bundy (d. 1989)
- John Louis Evans (d. 1983)
- Gary Gilmore (d. 1977)
- Gwynne Owen Evans (d. 1964)
- Peter Anthony Allen (d. 1964)
- James Hanratty (d. 1962)
- Guenther Podola (d. 1959) last person hanged in UK for killing a policeman
- Charles Starkweather (d. 1959)
- Jack Gilbert Graham (d. 1957)
- Wilbert Coffin (d. 1956)
- Ruth Ellis (d. 1955) last woman hanged in Britain
- Barbara Graham (d. 1955)
- Styllou Christofi (d. 1954)
- Derek Bentley (d. 1953) pardoned
- John Christie (d. 1953)
- Timothy Evans (d. 1950) pardoned
- John George Haigh (d. 1949)
- Raymond Lisenba (d. 1942) last person hanged in California
- Bruno Hauptmann (d. 1936)
- Harry Pierpont (d. 1934)
- Giuseppe Zangara (d. 1933) assassination and attempted assassination of another
- Edith Thompson (d. 1923)
- Frederick Bywaters (d. 1923)
- Joe Hill (d. 1915)
- Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (d. 1910)
- William Kemmler (d. 1890)
- James Arcene (d. 1885) robbery and murder
- Ned Kelly (d. 1880) and bank robbery
- Noah Beauchamp (d. 1842)
- Jereboam O. Beauchamp (d. 1826)
- Jason Fairbanks (d. 1801)
- Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (d. 1760)
- Beatrice Cenci (d. 1599)
[edit] Assassination
- George Atzerodt (d. 1865) conspiracy
- John Bellingham (d. 1812)
- Charlotte Corday (d. 1793)
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, (Iran, September 15, 1982) conspiracy
- David Herold (d. 1865) conspiracy
- Patrick Keppenne (d.2003) attempted assassination
- Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (d. 1944) attempted assassination
- Lewis Payne (d. 1865) conspiracy and attempted assassination
- Claus von Stauffenberg (d. 1944) attempted assassination
- Adam von Trott zu Solz (d. 1944)
- U Saw (d. 1948)
- Mary Surratt (d. 1865) conspiracy
[edit] Political figures
[edit] Deposed leaders and families
- Saddam Hussein (d. 2006)
- Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong (d. 1979)
- Akwasi Afrifa (d. 1979)
- Friedrich Akel (d. 1941)
- Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold (d. 1974)
- Marie Antoinette (d. 1793) ruling class
- Ion Antonescu (d. 1946)
- Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (d. 1970)
- Joseph Bamina (d. 1965)
- Madame du Barry (d. 1793) ruling class
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (d. 1979)
- Maurice Bishop (d. 1983)
- Eugen Bolz (d. 1945)
- Elena Ceauşescu (d. 1989) ruling class
- Nicolae Ceauşescu (d. 1989)
- King Charles I of England (d. 1649)
- Samuel K. Doe (d. 1990)
- Alois Eliáš (d. 1942)
- Madame Elisabeth (d. 1793) ruling class
- Endelkachew Makonnen (d. 1974)
- Bogdan Filov (d. 1945)
- Lady Jane Grey (d. 1554) and heresy
- Ninian Home (d. 1795)
- Amir Abbas Hoveida (Iran, April 7, 1979)
- Agustín de Iturbide (d. 1823)
- Jüri Jaakson (d. 1942)
- Évariste Kimba (d. 1966)
- Long Boret (d. 1975)
- King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
- Patrice Lumumba (d. 1961)
- Francisco Macías Nguema (d. 1979)
- Alphonse Massamba-Débat (d. 1977)
- Maximilian of Mexico (d. 1867)
- Miguel Miramón (d. 1867)
- Francisco Morazán (d. 1842)
- Joachim Murat (d. 1815)
- Benito Mussolini (d. 1945)
- Imre Nagy (d. 1958)
- Mohammad Najibullah (d. 1996)
- Nicholas II and family (d. 1918)
- Jöran Persson (d. 1568)
- Vidkun Quisling (d. 1945)
- Nuri as-Said (d. 1958)
- Mohammad Musa Shafiq (d. 1979)
- Sisowath Sirik Matak (d. 1975)
- Aleksandar Stamboliyski (d. 1923)
- Ferenc Szálasi (d. 1946)
- Jozef Tiso (d. 1947)
- Diarra Traoré (d. 1985)
- Gualberto Villarroel (d. 1946)
- William Walker (d. 1860)
- William Wallace (d. 1305)
- Wen Tianxiang (d. 1283)
[edit] Political opponents
- Amir Sjarifuddin (d. 1948)
- Nikos Beloyannis (d. 1952)
- Lavrenty Beria (d. 1953)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (d. 1945)
- Jacques Pierre Brissot (d. 1793)
- Nikolay Bukharin (d. 1938)
- Francisco Caamaño (d. 1973)
- Wilhelm Canaris (d. 1945)
- Vladimír Clementis (d. 1952)
- Galeazzo Ciano (d. 1944)
- Georges Danton (d. 1794)
- Camille Desmoulins (d. 1794)
- Joseph Garang (d. 1971)
- Andreas Hofer (d. 1810)
- Milada Horáková (d. 1950)
- Lev Kamenev (d. 1935)
- Traicho Kostov (d. 1949)
- William Laud (d. 1645) and treason
- Pierre Laval (d. 1945)
- Olympe de Gouge (d. 1793)
- Antoine Lavoisier (d. 1794)
- Jean-Baptiste Lingani (d. 1989)
- Abdel Khaliq Mahjub (d. 1971)
- Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
- Qazi Mohammad (d. 1947)
- Maurice Mpolo (d. 1961)
- Umar al-Mukhtar (d. 1931)
- Joseph Okito (d. 1961)
- Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (d. 1619)
- Hans Oster (d. 1945)
- Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu (d. 1954)
- Patrick Henry Pearse (d. 1916)
- Nikola Petkov (d. 1947)
- László Rajk (d. 1949)
- Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (d. 1541)
- Maximilien Robespierre (d. 1793)
- Aleksey Rykov (d. 1930)
- Karl Sack (d. 1945)
- Louis de Saint-Just (d. 1794)
- Ken Saro-Wiwa (d. 1995)
- Sophie Scholl (d. 1943)
- Bhagat Singh (d. 1931)
- Rudolf Slánský (d. 1952)
- Chris Soumokil (d. 1966)
- Abu Taher (d. 1976)
- Koçi Xoxe (d. 1949)
- Gregory Zinoviev (d. 1936)
- Henri Zongo (d. 1989)
[edit] Religious figures
See also: Christian martyrs
- 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
- Ruud Draak (d. 1672) apostasy, blasphemy
- 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
[edit] Espionage
- Jack Agazarian (d. 1945)
- James J. Andrews (d. 1862)
- Yolande Beekman (d. 1944)
- Robert Benoist (d. 1944) and sabotage
- Denise Bloch (d. 1945)
- Guy Biéler (d. 1944) and sabotage
- Andrée Borrel (d. 1944) and sabotage
- Madeleine Damerment (d. 1944) and sabotage
- William Grover-Williams (d. 1945) and sabotage
- Nathan Hale (d. 1776)
- Mata Hari (d. 1917)
- Noor Inyat Khan (d. 1944)
- Cecily Lefort (d. 1945)
- Vera Leigh (d. 1944)
- John Kenneth Macalister (d. 1944)
- Gilbert Norman (d. 1944)
- Sonia Olschanezky (d. 1944)
- Frank Pickersgill (d. 1944)
- Eliane Plewman (d. 1944) and sabotage
- Lilian Rolfe (d. 1945) and sabotage
- Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (d. 1953)
- Diana Rowden (d. 1944) and sabotage
- Yvonne Rudelatt (d. 1945) and sabotage
- Roméo Sabourin (d. 1944) and sabotage
- Suzanne Spaak (d. 1944)
- Violette Szabo (d. 1945) and sabotage
- Hannah Szenes (d. 1944) and sabotage
[edit] War crimes and crimes against humanity
- Kurt Daluege (d. 1946)
- Adolf Eichmann (d. 1962)
- Hans Frank (d. 1946)
- Wilhelm Frick (d. 1946)
- Arthur Greiser (d. 1946)
- Saddam Hussein (d. 2006)
- Alfred Jodl (d. 1946)
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner (d. 1946)
- Wilhelm Keitel (d. 1946)
- Nguyen Van Lem a/k/a "Bay Lop" (d. 1968)
- Draža Mihailović (d. 1946)
- Vidkun Quisling (d. 1945)
- Joachim von Ribbentrop (d. 1946)
- Alfred Rosenberg (d. 1946)
- Fritz Sauckel (d. 1946)
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart (d. 1946)
- Julius Streicher (d. 1946)
- Hideki Tojo (d. 1948)
- Henry Wirz (d. 1865)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Treason
- Anthony Babington (d. 1586) treason
- Guy Fawkes (d. 1606) treason and conspiracy
- Baillie of Jerviswood (d. 1684) treason
- John Brown (d. 1859) treason, murder, conspiracy
- Roger Casement, (d. 1916) treason, sabotage, espionage
- Paulo Correia (d. 1986) treason (coup attempt)
- 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
- Perkin Warbeck (d. 1499) treason
- Genrikh Yagoda (d. 1938) treason
- Dragutin Dimitrijević (d. 1917) treason
- William Wallace
[edit] Other
- Abiye Abebe (d. 1974)
- Fred Akuffo (d. 1979)
- Alexander George Arbuthnot, hanged by Andrew Jackson 1818
- Mahmoud Asgari (d. 2005) sodomy
- Kevin Barlow (d. 1986) drug trafficking
- Anne Boleyn (d. 1536) adultery
- Brian Chambers (d. 1986) drug trafficking
- André Chénier (d. 1794), conspiracy, political writings
- Caryl Chessman (d. 1960) rape
- Olympe de Gouges (d. 1793) political writings
- Che Guevara (d. 1967) revolutionary
- Frank Fijneman (d. 1999) multiple rape
- Catherine Howard (d. 1542) adultery
- Zhila Izadi
- Aleksandr Kolchak (d. 1920)
- Marinus van der Lubbe (d. 1934) arson
- Kevin Malone
- Ayaz Marhoni (d. 2005) sodomy
- David Edward Mason
- Robert Lee Massie
- Timothy McVeigh (d. 2001) murder, terrorism
- Arthur Muntz (d. 1861) desertion
- Jacques Vincent Ogé (d. 1791) insurgency in Haiti
- Arndt Pekurinen (d. 1944) pacifism
- Viktor Pepelyayev (d. 1920)
- Atefeh Rajabi (Iran, September 17, 2004) sex with an older man
- Darrell Keith Rich
- Nicholas Ridley (b. 1555) heresy, political opponent
- Louis Riel (d. 1885) revolutionary
- Madame Roland (d. 1793) revolutionary
- Salem Ali Rubayyi (d. 1978)
- Sacco and Vanzetti (d. 1927), murder, revolutionaries
- Jaturun Siripongs
- Eddie Slovik (d. 1945) desertion
- Tiradentes (d. 1792) revolutionary
- Dick Turpin (d. 1739) robbery
- Van Tuong Nguyen, (d. 2005), drug trafficking
Groups:
- On March 5, 1940, Stalin himself and other Soviet leaders signed the order to execute 25,700 Polish intelligentsia including 14,700 Polish prisoners of war.
- Concentration camps for Jews and other, "undesirables," also existed in Germany itself. Part of the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe and North Africa along with other groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators.
[edit] 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
