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execution Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in ...
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 Marinus van der Lubbe (; 13 January 1909 – 10 January 1934) was a Dutch communist who was tried, convicted, and executed by the government of Nazi Germany for setting fire to the Reichstag building—the national parliament of Germany—on ...
(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 A viceroy () is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory. The term derives from the Latin prefix ''vice-'', meaning "in the place of" and the Anglo-Norman ''roy'' (Old Frenc ...
Lord Mayo * Pakhomy Andreyushkin (1887) conspiracy to assassinate
Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...
Emperor The word ''emperor'' (from , via ) can mean the male ruler of an empire. ''Empress'', the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), mother/grandmother (empress dowager/grand empress dowager), or a woman who rules ...
Alexander III *
Narayan Apte Narayan Dattatraya Apte (1911 – 15 November 1949) was an Indian assassin and recruiting officer for the Royal Indian Air Force. He was executed by hanging for planning the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Family Apte was born in a Chitpa ...
(1949) assassination of
Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethics, political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful Indian ...
* George Atzerodt (1865) assassination of
US President The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed For ...
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War ...
* Jean Bastien-Thiry (1963) attempted assassination of
French President The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (), is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces. As the presidency is the supreme magistracy of the country, the pos ...
Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free France, Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Re ...
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John Bellingham John Bellingham (c. 176918 May 1812) was an English merchant and perpetrator of the 1812 murder of Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to be assassinated. Early life Bellingham's early life is largely unknown, and most post-as ...
(1812) assassination of
British Prime Minister The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet, and selects its ministers. Modern pri ...
Spencer Perceval Spencer Perceval (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until his assassination in May 1812. He is the only British prime minister to have been as ...
* Eliyahu Bet-Zuri (1945) assassination of Lord Moyne * Mehmet Arif Bey (1926)
conspiracy A conspiracy, also known as a plot, ploy, or scheme, is a secret plan or agreement between people (called conspirers or conspirators) for an unlawful or harmful purpose, such as murder, treason, or corruption, especially with a political motivat ...
to assassinate Turkish
President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...
Mustafa Kemal Pasha Mustafa () is one of the names of the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the name means "chosen, selected, appointed, preferred", used as an Arabic language, Arabic given name and surname. Mustafa is a common name in t ...
* 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 Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...
Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...
Pyotr Stolypin Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin ( rus, Пётр Аркадьевич Столыпин, p=pʲɵtr ɐrˈkadʲjɪvʲɪtɕ stɐˈlɨpʲɪn; – ) was a Russian statesman who served as the third Prime Minister of Russia, prime minister and the Ministry ...
* Lee Bong-chang (1932) attempted assassination of Japanese Emperor
Hirohito , Posthumous name, posthumously honored as , was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, from 25 December 1926 until Death and state funeral of Hirohito, his death in 1989. He remains Japan's longest-reigni ...
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Yun Bong-gil Yun Bong-gil (; 21 June 1908 – 19 December 1932) was a Korean independence movement, Korean independence activist. His art name is Maeheon (). He is most notable for his role in the Hongkou Park Incident, in which he set off a bomb that kille ...
(1932) assassination of General Yoshinori Shirakawa *
Charlotte Corday Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known simply as Charlotte Corday (), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobins, Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. Cor ...
(1793) assassination of
Jean-Paul Marat Jean-Paul Marat (, , ; born Jean-Paul Mara; 24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the ''sans-culottes ...
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Leon Czolgosz Leon Frank Czolgosz ( ; ; May 5, 1873 – October 29, 1901) was an American wireworker and Anarchism, anarchist who assassination of William McKinley, assassinated President of the United States, United States president William McKinley on Septe ...
(1901) assassination of US President
William McKinley William McKinley (January 29, 1843September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until Assassination of William McKinley, his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Repub ...
* Madan Lal Dhingra (1909) assassination of
William Hutt Curzon Wyllie Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie (5 October 1848 – 1 July 1909) was a British Indian army officer, and later an official of the British Indian Government. Over a career spanning three decades, Curzon Wyllie rose to be a Lieutenant Colonel in t ...
* Albert Dovecar (1962) assassination of Police Commissaire Roger Gavoury * Reginald Dunne (1922) assassination of Field Marshal
Sir Henry Wilson Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Unionism in Ireland, Irish unio ...
* Muhammad abd-al-Salam Faraj (1982)
assassination Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important. It may be prompted by political, ideological, religious, financial, or military motives. Assassinations are orde ...
of
Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
ian
President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...
Anwar Sadat Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until Assassination of Anwar Sadat, his assassination by fundame ...
* John Felton (1628) assassination of
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ( ; 20 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts. He was a favourite and self-described "lover" of King James VI and I. Buckingham remained at the heigh ...
* Vasily Generalov (1887) conspiracy to assassinate Alexander III *
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (, 24 February 1936 – 15 September 1982) was an Iranian politician who served as a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France and was foreign minister (30 November 1979 – August 1980) during the Ir ...
, (1982) conspiracy to assassinate
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
ian
Supreme Leader A supreme leader or supreme ruler typically refers to powerful figures with an unchallenged authority, such as autocrats, dictators to spiritual and revolutionary leaders. Historic examples are Adolf Hitler () of Nazi Germany, Francisco ...
Ayatollah Khomeini Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 or 24 September 19023 June 1989) was an Iranian revolutionary, politician, political theorist, and religious leader. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of the Iranian ...
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Nathuram Godse Nathuram Vinayak Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) () was an Indian Hindu nationalist and political activist who was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. He shot Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range at a multi-faith praye ...
(1949) assassination of Mahatma Gandhi * Paul Gorguloff (1932) assassination of French President Paul Doumer *
Charles Guiteau Charles Julius Guiteau ( ; September 8, 1841June 30, 1882) was an American man who assassinated James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, in 1881. A mentally ill failed lawyer, Guiteau delusionally believed that he had playe ...
(1882) assassination of US President James A. Garfield * Abdul Khaliq Hazara (1933) assassination of
Afghan Afghan or Afgan may refer to: Related to Afghanistan *Afghans, historically refers to the Pashtun people. It is both an ethnicity and nationality. Ethnicity wise, it refers to the Pashtuns. In modern terms, it means both the citizens of Afghanist ...
King King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an Absolute monarchy, absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted Government, governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a Constitutional monarchy, ...
Mohammed Nadir Shah * Eliyahu Hakim (1945) assassination of Lord Moyne *
David Herold David Edgar Herold (June 16, 1842 – July 7, 1865) was an American pharmacist's assistant and accomplice of John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. After the shooting, Herold accompanied Booth to the home o ...
(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 Lev Borisovich Kamenev. ( Rozenfeld; – 25 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolsheviks, Old Bolshevik, Kamenev was a leading figure in the early Soviet government and served as a Deputy Premier ...
(1935) assassination of
Sergei Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (born Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolsheviks, Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction ...
* 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 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...
* Mirza Reza Kermani (1896) assassination of
Iranian Iranian () may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Iran ** Iranian diaspora, Iranians living outside Iran ** Iranian architecture, architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia ** Iranian cuisine, cooking traditions and practic ...
Shah
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (; ; 17 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) was the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. During his rule there was internal pressure from the people of Iran, as well as external ...
* Nikolai Kibalchich (1881) assassination of Russian Emperor Alexander II * Aleksandr Kvyatkovsky (1880) conspiracy to assassinate Alexander II *
Kim Jae-gyu Kim Jae-gyu (, April 9, 1924 – May 24, 1980) was a South Korean politician, army lieutenant general and the director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. He assassinated South Korean President Park Chung Hee—who had been on ...
(1980) assassination of
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...
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President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...
Park Chung Hee Park Chung Hee (; ; November14, 1917October26, 1979) was a South Korean politician and army officer who served as the third president of South Korea from 1962 after he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961 until Assassination of Park Chung ...
* Vsevolod Lebedintsev (1908) conspiracy to assassinate Russian Minister of Justice Ivan Shcheglovitov *
Roderigo Lopez Roderigo Lopes (c. 1517 – 7 June 1594) was a Portuguese physician who served as a physician-in-chief to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 1581 until his death by execution, having been found guilty of plotting to poison her. A Portuguese ''c ...
(1595) attempted assassination of Queen
Elizabeth I Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was List of English monarchs, Queen of England and List of Irish monarchs, Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudo ...
of
England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...
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Louis Pierre Louvel Louis Pierre Louvel (7 October 1783 – 7 June 1820) was the assassin of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry. Born in Versailles, Louvel was the son of a haberdasher, learned the profession of a saddler, and entered in 1806 in the service of the a ...
(1820) assassination of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry *
Naseeruddin Mauzi Naseeruddin Mauzi Nagar was an Indian Khilafat Movement activist. He was one of three Khilafat Movement activists hanged by the colonial authorities for the killing of Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby, Deputy Commissioner of Kheri, on 26 ...
(1920) assassination of
Robert William Douglas Willoughby Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby was Deputy Commissioner of Kheri. He was the son of Colonel R. F. Willoughby. The East India Company built Willoughby Memorial Hall in 1924 in memory of Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby Sir Ro ...
* 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 King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an Absolute monarchy, absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted Government, governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a Constitutional monarchy, ...
Faisal of
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...
* Leonid Nikolaev (1934) assassination of Sergei Kirov * Eligiusz Niewiadomski (1923) assassination of Polish President
Gabriel Narutowicz Gabriel Józef Narutowicz (; 29 March 1865 – 16 December 1922) was a Polish people, Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the first president of Poland from 11 December 1922 until Assassination of Gabriel Na ...
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Felice Orsini Felice Orsini (; ; 10 December 1819 – 13 March 1858) was an Italian revolutionary and leader of the '' Carbonari'' who tried to assassinate Napoleon III, Emperor of the French. Early life Felice Orsini was born at Meldola in Romagna, th ...
(1858) attempted assassination of
Emperor of the French Emperor of the French ( French: ''Empereur des Français'') was the title of the monarch and supreme ruler of the First French Empire and the Second French Empire. The emperor of France was an absolute monarch. Details After rising to power by ...
Napoleon III Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first president, second emperor, and last ...
* 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 Gertrude of Merania ( 1185 – 28 September 1213) was Queen of Hungary as the first wife of Andrew II from 1205 until her assassination. She was regent during her husband's absence. Life Gertrude was the daughter of the Bavarian Count Berth ...
* Claude Piegts (1962) assassination of Roger Gavoury * Michael Piekarski (1620) attempted assassination of
King King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an Absolute monarchy, absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted Government, governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a Constitutional monarchy, ...
Sigismund III * Otto Planetta (1934) assassination of Austrian
Chancellor Chancellor () is a title of various official positions in the governments of many countries. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the (lattice work screens) of a basilica (court hall), which separa ...
Engelbert Dollfuss Engelbert Dollfuss (alternatively Dollfuß; 4 October 1892 – 25 July 1934) was an Austrian politician and dictator who served as chancellor of Federal State of Austria, Austria between 1932 and 1934. Having served as Minister for Forests and ...
* Lewis Powell (1865) conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and attempted assassination of US Secretary of State William Seward *
Sayyid Qutb Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb (9 October 190629 August 1966) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood. As the author of 24 books, with around 30 books unpublished for differe ...
(1966) conspiracy to assassinate Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 a ...
* François Ravaillac (1610) assassination of King Henry IV of
France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
* 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 Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Given name, ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and stateswoman who served as the Prime Minister of India, prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 un ...
* Kehar Singh (1989) assassination of Indira Gandhi *
Satwant Singh Satwant Singh (1962 – 6 January 1989) was one of the bodyguards, along with Beant Singh (assassin), Beant Singh, who Assassination of Indira Gandhi, assassinated the Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, at her New Delhi residence on 31 Oct ...
(1989) assassination of Indira Gandhi * Udham Singh (1940) assassination of Michael O'Dwyer * Friedrich Staps (1809) attempted assassination of
Emperor The word ''emperor'' (from , via ) can mean the male ruler of an empire. ''Empress'', the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), mother/grandmother (empress dowager/grand empress dowager), or a woman who rules ...
Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...
* Khalil Tahmasebi (1955) assassination of
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
ian
Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...
Ali Razmara * William Thomas (1554) conspiracy to assassinate Queen
Mary I Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She made vigorous a ...
of England * U Saw (1948) assassination of
Aung San Aung San (, ; 13 February 191519 July 1947), known honorifically as '' Bogyoke'' Aung San, was a Burmese politician, independence activist and revolutionary. He was instrumental in Myanmar's struggle for independence from British rule, but he w ...
* Harikishan Talwar (1931) attempted assassination of Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency * Nguyen Van Troi (1964) attempted assassination of
Robert McNamara Robert Strange McNamara (; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson ...
and future ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985) was an American diplomat and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate and served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the administration of Pre ...
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Mary Surratt Mary Elizabeth Surratt (; 1820 or May 1823 – July 7, 1865) was an American boarding house owner in Washington, D.C., who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy which led to the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 18 ...
(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 Wang Zhaoming (4 May 188310 November 1944), widely known by his pen name Wang Jingwei, was a Chinese politician who was president of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China, a puppet state of the Empire of Japan. He was in ...
* Giuseppe Zangara (1933) assassination of
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mayor
Anton Cermak Anton Joseph Cermak (May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933) was an American politician who served as the 44th Mayor of Chicago from April 7, 1931, until his death in 1933. He was killed by Giuseppe Zangara, whose likely target was President-elec ...
* Andrei Zhelyabov (1881) assassination of Alexander II


Espionage


Firearm offences

* Chang Bock Eng (1980) * Jimmy Chua Chap Seng (1989) * Botak Chin (1980) * Khor Kok Soon (2006) * Lim Chwee Soon (1997) * Lim Kok Yew (1984) * Lim Thian Lai (2006) * Ng Theng Shuang (1995) * Ong Yeow Tian (1994) * Sha Bakar Dawood (1976) * Talib Haji Hamzah (1977) * Tan Chor Jin (2009) * Tay Cher Kiang (1980) * Tay Chin Wah (2001) * Teo Cheng Leong (1971)


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


Ancient Times (pre AD 500)

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Demetrius Demetrius is the Latinization of names, Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male name, male Greek given names, given name ''Dēmḗtrios'' (), meaning "devoted to goddess Demeter". Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, ...
(330 BC) * Panyassis (454 BC) *
Cleopatra Selene of Syria Cleopatra Selene (; – 69 BC) was the Queen consort of Egypt (Cleopatra Selene or Cleopatra V Selene) from 115 to 102 BC, the Queen consort of Syria from 102 to 92 BC, and the monarch of Syria (Cleopatra II) from 82 to 69 BC. The daughter of ...
(69 BC) * Longinus of Selinus (498)


Pre-Modern Era (500-1500)

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Conradin Conrad III (25 March 1252 – 29 October 1268), called ''the Younger'' or ''the Boy'', but usually known by the diminutive Conradin (, ), was the last direct heir of the House of Hohenstaufen. He was Duke of Swabia (1254–1268) and nominal King ...
(1268) * Constantine I of Georgia (1412) *
Dafydd ap Gruffydd Dafydd ap Gruffudd, also known as ''Dafydd III'' (11 July 1238 – 3 October 1283), was a Prince of Gwynedd until after the death of his brother, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, when he proclaimed himself as the Prince of Wales from 11 December 1282. H ...
(1283) *
Wen Tianxiang Wen Tianxiang (; June 6, 1236 – January 9, 1283), noble title Duke of Xin (), was a Chinese statesman, poet and politician in the last years of the Song dynasty#Southern Song, 1127–1279, Southern Song dynasty. For his resistance to Kublai K ...
(1283) * David of Trebizond (1463) *
William Wallace Sir William Wallace (, ; Norman French: ; 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence. Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of St ...
(1305)


Early Modern Era (1500–1800)


19th century


1900s

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Peter Handcock Peter Joseph Handcock (17 February 1868 – 27 February 1902) was an Australian-born veterinary lieutenant and convicted war criminal who served in the Bushveldt Carbineers during the Boer War in South Africa. After a court martial, Handcock ...
(1902) * Harry "Breaker" Morant (1902) * Gideon Scheepers (1902)


1910s

* Mehmed Kemâl Bey (1919) * Éamonn Ceannt (1916) * Cornelius "Con" Colbert (1916) *
James Connolly James Connolly (; 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was a Scottish people, Scottish-born Irish republicanism, Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the Easter Rising, 1916 Easter Rising against British rule i ...
(1916) * Thomas Clarke (1916) * Edward Daly (1916) * Seán Heuston (1916) *
Eugen Leviné Eugen Leviné (; 10 May 1883 – 5 June 1919), also known as Dr. Eugen Leviné, was a German Communism, communist revolutionary and one of the leaders of the short-lived Second Bavarian Soviet Republic. Background Eugen Leviné was born on 10 ...
(1919) * John MacBride (1916) * Seán Mac Diarmada (1916) *
Thomas MacDonagh Thomas Stanislaus MacDonagh (; 1 February 1878 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish political activist, poet, playwright, educationalist and revolutionary leader. He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, a signatory of the Proclama ...
(1916) * Michael Mallin (1916) * Nicholas II and family (1918) * Michael O'Hanrahan (1916) *
Patrick Pearse Patrick Henry Pearse (also known as Pádraig or Pádraic Pearse; ; 10 November 1879 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish teacher, barrister, Irish poetry, poet, writer, Irish nationalism, nationalist, Irish republicanism, republican political activist a ...
(1916) *
William Pearse William James Pearse (; 15 November 1881 – 4 May 1916) was an Irish republican executed for his part in the Easter Rising. He was a younger brother of Patrick Pearse, a leader of the rising. Background Willie Pearse was born in Dublin and th ...
(1916) * Joseph Plunkett (1916) * Pavel Poltoratskiy (1918)


1920s

* Kevin Barry (1920) * Vue Pa Chay (1921) * Hasan Hayri (1925) *
Aleksandr Kolchak List of Russian admirals, Admiral Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (; – 7 February 1920) was a Russian navy officer and Arctic exploration, polar explorer who led the White movement in the Russian Civil War. As he assumed the title of Supreme Ru ...
(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


1950s

* King Faisal II of Iraq (1958) * Dedan Kimathi (1957) * Moshe Marzouk (1955) * Larbi Ben M'hidi (1957) *
Imre Nagy Imre Nagy ( ; ; 7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (''de facto'' Prime Minister of Hungary, Prime Minis ...
(1958) * Evagoras Pallikarides (1957)


1960s

*
Adolf Eichmann Otto Adolf Eichmann ( ;"Eichmann"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. ; 19 March 1906 – 1 Ju ...
(1962) * Ernesto Guevara (1967) * Évariste Kimba (1966) *
Patrice Lumumba Patrice Émery Lumumba ( ; born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa; 2 July 192517 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic o ...
(1961) *
Adnan Menderes Ali Adnan Ertekin Menderes (; 1899 – 17 September 1961) was a Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister of Turkey between 1950 and 1960. He was one of the founders of the Democrat Party (DP) in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of ...
(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 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979) was a Pakistani barrister and politician who served as the fourth president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and later as the ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan from 19 ...
(1979) * Long Boret (1975) *
Francisco Caamaño Col. Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó (June 11, 1932 – February 16, 1973) was a Dominican soldier and politician who took the constitutional presidency of the Dominican Republic during the Civil War of 1965. During the war, which began ...
(1973) * Amir Abbas Hoveida (1979) * Endelkachew Makonnen (1974) *
Alphonse Massamba-Débat Alphonse Massamba-Débat (February 11, 1921 – March 25, 1977) was a political figure of the Republic of the Congo who led the country from 1963 until 1968 in a one-party system. Biography Early life He was born in the small village of Nkolo, ...
(1977) * Sisowath Sirik Matak (1975) *
Francisco Macías Nguema Francisco Macías Nguema (born Mez-m Ngueme, later Africanisation, Africanised to Masie Nguema Biyogo Ñegue Ndong; 1 January 1924 – 29 September 1979), often referred to as Macías Nguema or simply Macías, was an Equatoguinean politician w ...
(1979)


1980s

* Hameed Baloch (1981) *
Maurice Bishop Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983) was a Grenada, Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of the New Jewel Movement (NJM) – a Marxist–Leninist party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education and bla ...
(1983) *
Elena Ceaușescu Elena Ceaușescu (; born Lenuța Petrescu; 7 January 1916 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician who was the wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Socialist Republic o ...
(1989) *
Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu ( ; ;  – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician who was the second and last Communism, communist leader of Socialist Romania, Romania, serving as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 u ...
(1989) * Diarra Traoré (1985) * Henri Zongo (1989)


Since 1990

*
Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until Saddam Hussein statue destruction, his overthrow in 2003 during the 2003 invasion of Ira ...
(2006) * Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Naggar (2000) *
Tal'at Fu'ad Qasim Tal'at Fu'ad Qasim (also spelled Qassim, ; born Nag Hammadi Qena Governorate), also known as Abu Talal al-Qasimi () (possibly executed in 1995), was the leader of Egypt's militant al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya (Gama'a Islamiyya) organization until he ob ...
(1995)


Murder


Mass murder


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 Theodore Robert Bundy (; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989), known colloquially as Ted Bundy, was an American serial killer who kidnapping, abducted, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls between 1974 and 1978. His ''modus ...
(1989) * Frank Carter (1927) known as "the Phantom Sniper" * Augustine Chacon (1902) known as "the Hairy One" * Oba Chandler (2011) *
George Chapman George Chapman ( – 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman is seen as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century. He is ...
(1903) * Gao Chengyong (2019) known as "the Gansu Ripper" * The Chijon family (1995) a South Korean gang *
Andrei Chikatilo Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (; ; 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper" who sexual assault, sexually assaulted, murdered, and ...
(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 Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester and cannibal who committed at least three child murders between July 1924 and June 1928. He was also known as the Gra ...
(1936) known as "the Brooklyn Vampire" *
Joseph Paul Franklin Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr.; April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer, white supremacist, and domestic terrorist who engaged in a murder spree spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. Frankli ...
(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 Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (25 October 1879 – 15 April 1925) was a German serial rapist and serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf Man, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutil ...
(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 Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...
* 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 Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (13 March 1927 – 11 July 1958) was an American-Scottish serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven people across Lanarkshire and southern Scotland between 1956 and his arrest in January 1958, and is believ ...
(1958) known as "the Beast of Birkenshaw" * Saad Iskandar Abdel Masih (1953) * David Mason (1993) * Hanafi Mat Hassan (2008) * Vladislav Mazurkievitz (1957) known as "the Gentleman Killer" * Daisy de Melker (1932) * Igor Mirenkov (1996) perpetrator of the "Svetlogorsk Nightmare" murders *
Tsutomu Miyazaki was a Japanese serial killer who murdered four young girls in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture between August 1988 and June 1989. He abducted and killed the girls, aged from 4 to 7, in his car before dismembering them and molesting their corpses. ...
(2008) known as "the Otaku Murderer" * Stanislav Modzelevski (1969) known as "the Vampire of Galkovek" * Catherine Montvoisin (1680) known as "La Voisin" *
Elifasi Msomi Elifasi Msomi a.k.a. The Axe Killer (1910 – 10 February 1956) was a South African serial killer who was convicted in 1955 of 15 murders and sentenced to death by hanging. His victims all came from the Umkomaas and Umzimkulu valleys of Natal ...
(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 Delaware ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic states, South Atlantic regions of the United States. It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey ...
* 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" * Iskandar Rahmat (2025) *
Gilles de Rais Gilles de Rais, Pays de Retz, Baron de Rais (; also spelled "Retz"; 1405 – 26 October 1440) was a knight and lord from Duchy of Brittany, Brittany, Duchy of Anjou, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army during the Hundred Years' W ...
(1440) known as "Bluebeard" * Daniel Remeta (1998) * 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" * Eric Robert (2012) * Daniel Rolling (2006) known as "the Gainesville Ripper" * Michael Bruce Ross (2005) first post-'' Gregg'' execution in
Connecticut Connecticut ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. ...
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 Peter Stumpp (–1589; name is also spelt as Peter Stube, Peter Stubbe, Peter Stübbe or Peter Stumpf) was a German farmer and alleged serial killer, accused of werewolfery, witchcraft, and cannibalism. He was known as "the Werewolf of Bedbur ...
(1589) known as "the Werewolf of Bedburg" * Nicholas Todd Sutton (2020) most recent execution via
electric chair The electric chair is a specialized device used for capital punishment through electrocution. The condemned is strapped to a custom wooden chair and electrocuted via electrodes attached to the head and leg. Alfred P. Southwick, a Buffalo, New Yo ...
* 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 Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was a British actor and comedian. He was best known for his comedy roles and in later life as a raconteur and diarist. He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the 31 ''Carry ...
(2017) most recent execution in
Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...
*
Stanley Williams Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an American gangster who co-founded and led the Crips gang in Los Angeles. He and Raymond Washington formed an alliance in 1971 that established the Crips as Los Angele ...
(2005) * Douglas Franklin Wright (1996) first post-'' Gregg'' execution in
Oregon Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t ...
* Aileen Wuornos (2002) * Elias Xitavhudzi (1960) known as "the Pangaman" * Yang Xinhai (2004) known as "the Monster Killer"


Piracy


Political opponents

* Friedrich Akel (1941) * Marie Bouffa (1945) *
Jacques Pierre Brissot Jacques Pierre Brissot (, 15 January 1754 – 31 October 1793), also known as Brissot de Warville, was a French journalist, abolitionist, and revolutionary leading the political faction, faction of Girondins (initially called Brissotins) at the ...
(1793) * André Chénier (1794) *
Galeazzo Ciano Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari ( , ; 18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944), was an Italian diplomat and politician who served as Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister in the government of his father-in-law ...
(1944) * Vladimír Clementis (1952) * Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1938) *
Georges Danton Georges Jacques Danton (; ; 26 October 1759 – 5 April 1794) was a leading figure of the French Revolution. A modest and unknown lawyer on the eve of the Revolution, Danton became a famous orator of the Cordeliers Club and was raised to gove ...
(1794) *
Camille Desmoulins Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins (; 2 March 17605 April 1794) was a French journalist, politician and a prominent figure of the French Revolution. He is best known for playing an instrumental role in the events that led to the Stormin ...
(1794) *
Olympe de Gouges Olympe de Gouges (; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 17483 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and Abol ...
(1793) * İskilipli Mehmed Atıf Hoca (1926) *
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, (10 March 1536 or 1538 2 June 1572), was an English nobleman and politician. He was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and held many high offices during the earlier part of her reign. Norfolk was the s ...
(1572) * Jüri Jaakson (1942) *
William Joyce William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born Fascism, fascist and Propaganda of Nazi Germany, Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the World War II, Second World War. After moving from ...
(1946) *
Bronislav Kaminski Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski (; 16 June 1899 – 28 August 1944) was a Soviet Collaboration in the German-occupied Soviet Union, Nazi collaborator. Some publications mistakenly give Kaminski's first name as ''Mieczyslaw''.Janusz Marszalec: ...
(1944) * Michael Kitzelmann (1942) * Traicho Kostov (1949) *
William Laud William Laud (; 7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was a bishop in the Church of England. Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles I of England, Charles I in 1633, Laud was a key advocate of Caroline era#Religion, Charles I's religious re ...
(1645) *
Antoine Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( ; ; 26 August 17438 May 1794), When reduced without charcoal, it gave off an air which supported respiration and combustion in an enhanced way. He concluded that this was just a pure form of common air and that i ...
(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 Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland de la Platière (Paris, March 17, 1754 – Paris, November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame RolandOccasionally, she is referred to as Dame Roland. This however is the except ...
(1793) * Martemyan Ryutin (1927) *
Ken Saro-Wiwa Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerians, Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and social rights activist. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland ...
(1995) * Ivan Shcheglovitov (1918) * Hans Scholl (1943) *
Sophie Scholl Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent German resistance to Nazism, resistance group in Nazi Germany. Raised in a politically engag ...
(1943) * Alexander Schmorell (1943) * Mohammad Musa Shafiq (1979) *
Amir Sjarifuddin Amir Sjarifuddin Harahap ( EVO: Amir Sjarifoeddin Harahap; 27 April 1907 – 19 December 1948) was an Indonesian politician and journalist who served as the second prime minister of Indonesia from 1947 until 1948. A major leader of the lef ...
(1948) *
Rudolf Slánský Rudolf Slánský (31 July 1901 – 3 December 1952) was a leading Czech Communist politician. Holding the post of the party's General Secretary after World War II, he was one of the leading creators and organizers of Communist rule in Czechoslova ...
(1952) * José Calvo Sotelo (1936) * Koçi Xoxe (1949) * Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold (1974) *
Yusuf Salman Yusuf Yusuf Salman Yusuf (; 19 July 1901 – 14 February 1949), better known by his nom de guerre Comrade Fahd (), was one of the first Iraqi communist activists. He was the first secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party, from 1941 until his execution ...
(1949)


Political purges


Executed during the

Night of the Long Knives The Night of the Long Knives (, ), also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird (), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ord ...
(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 Gustav Ritter von Kahr (; born Gustav Kahr; 29 November 1862 – 30 June 1934) was a German jurist and right-wing politician. During his career he was district president of Upper Bavaria, Bavarian minister president and, from September 1923 to ...
*
Erich Klausener Erich Klausener (25 January 1885 – 30 June 1934) was a German Roman Catholic, Catholic politician and Catholic martyr in the "Night of the Long Knives", a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934, when the Nazi regime ...
* Adalbert Probst *
Ernst Röhm Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (; 28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer, politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party. A close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler, Röhm was the co-founder and leader of the (SA), t ...
*
Kurt von Schleicher Kurt Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann von Schleicher (; 7 April 1882 – 30 June 1934) was a German military officer and the penultimate Chancellor of Germany#First German Republic (Weimar Republic, 1919–1933), chancellor of Germany during the Weim ...
* Emil Sembach * Bernhard Stempfle * Gregor Strasser


Executed during the

Great Purge The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (), also known as the Year of '37 () and the Yezhovshchina ( , ), was a political purge in the Soviet Union that took place from 1936 to 1938. After the Assassination of Sergei Kirov, assassination of ...


Executed members of the

20 July plot The 20 July plot, sometimes referred to as Operation Valkyrie, was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the chancellor and leader of Nazi Germany, and overthrow the Nazi regime on 20 July 1944. The plotters were part of the German r ...

*
Ludwig Beck Ludwig August Theodor Beck (; 29 June 1880 – 20 July 1944) was a German general who served as Chief of the German General Staff from 1933 to 1938. Beck was one of the main conspirators of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ...
(1944) * Robert Bernardis (1944) * Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff (1945) *
Hasso von Boehmer Hasso von Boehmer (9 August 1904 – 5 March 1945) was a German lieutenant colonel on the General Staff and one of the 20 July Plotters. Hasso von Boehmer belonged to Infantry Regiment 9 (I.R. 9) from Potsdam, from which also came many of th ...
(1945) * Eugen Bolz (1945) *
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer (; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the s ...
(1945) * Klaus Bonhoeffer (1945) * Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal (1944) * Eduard Brücklmeier (1944) *
Wilhelm Canaris Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1 January 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a admiral (Germany), German admiral and the chief of the ''Abwehr'' (the German military intelligence, military-intelligence service) from 1935 to 1944. Initially a supporter of Ad ...
(1945) * Walter Cramer (1944) *
Alfred Delp Alfred Friedrich Delp (; 15 September 1907 – 2 February 1945) was a German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance. A member of the inner Kreisau Circle resistance group, he is considered a significant figure in Catholic ...
(1945) * Heinrich zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1944) *
Hans von Dohnanyi Hans von Dohnanyi (; originally ''Johann von Dohnányi'' ; 1 January 1902 – 8 or 9 April 1945) was a Germans, German jurist. He used his position in the Abwehr to help Jews escape Germany, worked with German resistance to Nazism, German r ...
(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 Albrecht Georg Haushofer (7 January 1903 – 23 April 1945) was a German geographer, diplomat, author and member of the German Resistance to Nazism. Life Haushofer was born in Munich, the son of the retired World War I general and geographer K ...
(1945) * Egbert Hayessen (1944) * Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff (1944) *
Otto Herfurth Otto Herfurth (22 January 1893 – 29 September 1944) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Herfurth was a conspirator in the 20 July Plot. Herfurth was t ...
(1944) *
Erich Hoepner Erich Kurt Richard Hoepner (14 September 1886 – 8 August 1944) was a German general during World War II. An early proponent of mechanisation and armoured warfare, he was a Wehrmacht Heer army corps commander at the beginning of the war, lead ...
(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 Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (25 March 1905 – 21 July 1944) was a German Army colonel and a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany involved in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler. Early life Quirnheim was born in Munich, the son of Herm ...
(1944) * Joseph Müller (1944) * Arthur Nebe (1945) *
Friedrich Olbricht Friedrich Olbricht (4 October 1888 – 21 July 1944) was a German general during World War II. He is known for being one of the plotters involved in the 20 July Plot, an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. Olbricht was a senior staff o ...
(1944) *
Hans Oster ''Generalmajor'' Hans Paul Oster (9 August 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a general in the ''Wehrmacht'' and a leading figure of the anti-Nazi German resistance from 1938 to 1943. As deputy head of the counter-espionage bureau in the ''Abwehr'' (Ge ...
(1945) *
Erwin Planck Erwin Planck (12 March 1893 – 23 January 1945) was a German politician, and a resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Biography Born in Charlottenburg (today part of Berlin), Erwin Planck was the fourth child of Nobel Prize-winning physici ...
(1945) * Kurt von Plettenberg (1945) * Johannes Popitz (1945) *
Friedrich von Rabenau Friedrich von Rabenau (10 October 1884 – 15 April 1945) was a German career-soldier, general, theologian, and opponent of Nazism. Biography Friedrich von Rabenau was born in Berlin to the physician Friedrich von Rabenau (1847–1885) and Wa ...
(1945) * Adolf Reichwein (1944) *
Alexis von Roenne Alexis Freiherr von Rönne (22 February 1903 – 12 October 1944) was a Wehrmacht, German Army Oberst, colonel and senior intelligence analyst. He became one of Adolf Hitler, Hitler's favoured officers in the Abwehr, despite secretly being of ...
(1944) *
Erwin Rommel Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (; 15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), popularly known as The Desert Fox (, ), was a German '' Generalfeldmarschall'' (field marshal) during World War II. He served in the ''Wehrmacht'' (armed forces) of ...
(1944) * Karl Sack (1945) * Joachim Sadrozinski (1944) * Anton Saefkow (1944) *
Rüdiger Schleicher Rüdiger Schleicher (14 January 1895 – 23 April 1945) was a German legal academic and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. Life Born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, Schleicher was married to Ursula Bonhoeffer (1902–1983), Karl ...
(1945) * Ernst Schneppenhorst (1945) *
Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg Friedrich-Werner Erdmann Matthias Johann Bernhard Erich Graf von der Schulenburg (20 November 1875 – 10 November 1944) was a German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa, the German a ...
(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 Carl-Heinrich Rudolf Wilhelm von Stülpnagel (2 January 1886 – 30 August 1944) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who was an army level commander. While serving as military commander of German-occupied France and as com ...
(1944) *
Fritz Thiele Fritz Thiele (14 April 1894 – 4 September 1944) was a member of the German resistance to Nazism, German resistance who also served as the communications chief of the German Army (1935-1945), German Army during World War II. Life Thiele was bor ...
(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 Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before Presidency of Andrew Jackson, his presidency, he rose to fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses ...
*
Marc Bloch Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch ( ; ; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on France in the Middle ...
(1944) * Emilio De Bono (1944) *
Maximilian Kolbe Maximilian Maria Kolbe (born Raymund Kolbe; ; 8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, Conventual Franciscan friar, missionary, saint, martyr, and a Nazi concentration camp victim, who volunteered to die in place ...
(1941) volunteered himself in place of another *
Élise Rivet Élise Rivet, also known as Mère Marie Élisabeth de l'Eucharistie (January 19, 1890, Draria, Algeria – March 30, 1945, Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germany) was a Catholic nun and World War II heroine. Rivet volunteered to go to the gas ...
(1945) * Elisabeth de Rothschild (1945)


Religious figures

*
Rabbi Akiva Akiva ben Joseph (Mishnaic Hebrew: ; – 28 September 135 CE), also known as Rabbi Akiva (), was a leading Jewish scholar and sage, a '' tanna'' of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second. Rabbi Akiva was a leadin ...
( AD 135) religious dissident *
Avvakum Avvakum Petrov (; 20 November 1620/1621 – 14 April 1682; also spelled Awakum) was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. H ...
(1682) religious dissent * Saint Joan of Arc (b. 1431) supposed heresy *
Bartholomew Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael, who appears in the Gospel of John (1:45–51; cf. 21:2). New Testament references The name ''Bartholomew ...
(1st century AD) * Qutubuddin Shaheed (1648) Dawoodi Bohra Dai al Mutlaq *
Giordano Bruno Giordano Bruno ( , ; ; born Filippo Bruno; January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astrologer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which concep ...
(1600) heresy *
Thomas Cranmer Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a theologian, leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He is honoured as a Oxford Martyrs, martyr ...
(1556) heresy * Cardinal
John Fisher John Fisher (c. 19 October 1469 – 22 June 1535) was an English Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1504 to 1535 and as chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Chu ...
(1535) religious dissent *
Jan Hus Jan Hus (; ; 1369 – 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Hus or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as ''Iohannes Hus'' or ''Johannes Huss'', was a Czechs, Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and t ...
(b. 1415) heresy *
Jacob Hutter Jakob Hutter (; ; also spelled Huter or Hueter; c. 1500 – 25 February 1536) was a County of Tyrol, Tyrolean Anabaptists, Anabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites. Biography Hutter was born in the small hamlet of Moos near St. Lor ...
(1536) heresy * Saint James the Great (AD 44) *
Jesus Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the Jesus in Chris ...
of
Nazareth Nazareth is the largest Cities in Israel, city in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. In its population was . Known as "the Arab capital of Israel", Nazareth serves as a cultural, political, religious, economic and ...
( AD 30–36) sedition * John Lambert (1538) heresy *
Hugh Latimer Hugh Latimer ( – 16 October 1555) was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Worcester during the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555 under the Catholic Queen Mary I he was burned at the ...
(1555) heresy * Sir
Thomas More Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VII ...
(1535) religious dissent *
Saint Paul Paul, also named Saul of Tarsus, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle ( AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is generally ...
( AD 64) *
Saint Peter Saint Peter (born Shimon Bar Yonah; 1 BC – AD 64/68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the Jewish Christian#Jerusalem ekklēsia, e ...
( 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 Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or use of fear. According to common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the person o ...
* 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 trick A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naivety, compassion, vanity, confidence, irrespons ...
ster * 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 Paulus Hector Mair (1517–1579) was a German civil servant Historical European Martial Arts, fencing master from Augsburg. He collected Fechtbuch, Fechtbücher and undertook to compile all knowledge of the art of fencing in a compendium surpassing ...
(1579), embezzlement of public funds * Étienne Monier (1913) * Orxines (323 BC) * Ishola Oyenusi (1971) multiple counts of armed robbery and carjacking *
Robert Palin Robert Thomas Palin (6 July 1861) was a convict penal transportation, transported to Western Australia. His execution in 1861 was the only time in the convict era of Western Australia that Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 was used to secure the c ...
(1861) * John Poulter (1754) * John Rann (1774) * Jakob "Hannikel" Reinhard (1787) * Biswanath Sardar (1808) *
Jack Sheppard John Sheppard (4 March 1702 – 16 November 1724), nicknamed "Honest Jack", was a notorious English thief and prison escapee of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter, but began committing thef ...
(1724) * Henry Simms (1747) * Robert Snooks (1802) * Amy Spain (1865), last female slave executed in the United States * William Spiggot (d 1721) *
Dick Turpin Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher ear ...
(1739) * Jane Voss (1684) *
Jonathan Wild Jonathan Wild, also spelled Wilde (1682 or 1683 – 24 May 1725), was an English thief-taker and a major figure in London's criminal underworld, notable for operating on both sides of the law, posing as a public-spirited vigilante entitled th ...
(1725), corruption * Ann Wyley (1777), only black person executed in Michigan


Sexual offences


Homosexuality

*
Katherina Hetzeldorfer Katherina Hetzeldorfer (died 1477) was recorded as the first woman to be executed for female homosexuality. She was drowned in the Rhine in Speyer. Life Originally from Nuremberg, she had moved to Speyer in 1475 dressed as a man in the company of ...
(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 The Bishop of Waterford and Lismore is an episcopal title which takes its name after the city of Waterford and town of Lismore in Ireland. The title was used by the Church of Ireland until 1838, and is still used by the Roman Catholic Church. Hi ...
* Jacopo Bonfadio (1550), Italian humanist and historianOfficial website commemorating 500 years since Bonfadio's birth
 * Francesco Calcagno (1550), Venician
Franciscan The Franciscans are a group of related organizations in the Catholic Church, founded or inspired by the Italian saint Francis of Assisi. They include three independent Religious institute, religious orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor bei ...
friar A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders in the Catholic Church. There are also friars outside of the Catholic Church, such as within the Anglican Communion. The term, first used in the 12th or 13th century, distinguishes the mendi ...
.Tucker, Scott (1997). ''The Queer Question: Essays on Desire and Democracy''. Boston: South End Press. . p. 46. * 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 (1556), French composer of the
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...
Jacob, Roger "''Dominique Phinot''", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed January 1, 2006)
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/ref> * 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 Amnon ( ''’Amnōn'', "faithful") was, in the Hebrew Bible, the oldest son of King David and his second wife, Ahinoam of Jezreel. He was born in Hebron during his father's reign in Judah. He was the heir apparent to the throne of Israel until ...
(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 In scholarly literature and criminology, gang rape, also called serial gang rape, party rape, group rape, or multiple perpetrator rape,Ullman, S. E. (2013). 11 Multiple perpetrator rape victimization. Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrato ...
* 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

* Rosman Abdullah (2024), drug trafficking *
Roger Casement Roger David Casement (; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the Britis ...
(1916)
arms trafficking Arms trafficking or gunrunning is the illicit trade of contraband small arms, explosives, and ammunition, which constitutes part of a broad range of illegal activities often associated with transnational criminal organizations. The illegal tra ...
* Roslan Bakar and Pausi Jefridin (2024), drug trafficking * Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers (1986), drug trafficking * Andrew Chan (2015), drug trafficking * Ong Ah Chuan (1981), drug trafficking * Low Hong Eng (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 Myuran Sukumaran (17 April 1981 – 29 April 2015) was an Australian who was convicted in Indonesia of drug trafficking as a member of the Bali Nine. In 2005, Sukumaran was arrested in a room at the Melasti Hotel in Kuta, Bali with eight othe ...
(2015), drug trafficking * Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi (2007), drug trafficking * Zahra Bahrami (2011), drug trafficking * Rozman Jusoh (1996), drug trafficking * Cheuk Mei-mei (1994), drug trafficking * Elke Tsang Kai-mong (1994), drug trafficking * Daniel Chan Chi-pun (1995), drug trafficking * Tong Ching-man (1995), drug trafficking * Poon Yuen-chung (1995), drug trafficking * Angel Mou Pui-peng (1995), drug trafficking * Vignes Mourthi (2003), drug trafficking * Yen May Woen (2004), drug trafficking * Yu Huaying (2025), human trafficking * Mohamed Shalleh Abdul Latiff (2023), drug trafficking * Saridewi Djamani (2023), drug trafficking * Tangaraju Suppiah (2023), drug trafficking


Treason

* Antonio Osorio de Acuña (1526) * John Amery (1945) * George Johnson Armstrong (1941) * Humphrey Arundell (1550) * Hristo Atanasov (1908) *
Anthony Babington Anthony Babington (24 October 156120 September 1586) was an English gentleman convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England and conspiring with the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, for which he was hanged, drawn and quartered ...
(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 (died 1400), Thomas Blount (1400) * Jeremiah Brandreth (1817) * John Brown (abolitionist), John Brown (1859) * Thomas Bryan (Irish republican), Thomas Bryan (1921) * Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (1753) *
Roger Casement Roger David Casement (; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the Britis ...
(1916) *
Thomas Cranmer Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a theologian, leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He is honoured as a Oxford Martyrs, martyr ...
(1556) * Bagha Jatin, Niren Dasgupta (1915) * William Davidson (conspirator), William Davidson (1820) * Edward Despard (1803) * Everard Digby (1606) * Dragutin Dimitrijević (1917) * Henry Donn (1586) * Patrick Doyle (Irish republican), Patrick Doyle (1921) * José María de Torrijos y Uriarte (1831) * Guy Fawkes (1606) * Gratien Fernando (1942) * Cardinal
John Fisher John Fisher (c. 19 October 1469 – 22 June 1535) was an English Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1504 to 1535 and as chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Chu ...
(1535) * Henri de Fleury de Coulan (1666) * Frank Flood (1921) * Jopie Fourie (1914) * Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (1747) * Robert Gage (MP), Robert Gage (1586) * Joseph Garang (1971) * Deniz Gezmiş (1972) * John Grant (Gunpowder Plot), John Grant (1606) * Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan (1401) * Fethi Gürcan (1964) * Mad Jack Hall, Jack Hall (1716) * Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle (1323) * Andrew Hardie (radical), Andrew Hardie (1820) * Cai Hesen (1931) * Milada Horáková (1950) *
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, (10 March 1536 or 1538 2 June 1572), was an English nobleman and politician. He was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and held many high offices during the earlier part of her reign. Norfolk was the s ...
(1572) * John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford (1537) * Kanao Inouye (1947) * Baillie of Jerviswood (1684) *
William Joyce William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born Fascism, fascist and Propaganda of Nazi Germany, Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the World War II, Second World War. After moving from ...
(1946) * Robert Keyes (1606) * Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai (1941) * Stanisław Kunicki (1886) *
William Laud William Laud (; 7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was a bishop in the Church of England. Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles I of England, Charles I in 1633, Laud was a key advocate of Caroline era#Religion, Charles I's religious re ...
(1645) * Christopher Layer (1723) * Vasil Levski (1873) * Samuel Lount (1838) * Johannes Lötter (1901) *
Marinus van der Lubbe Marinus van der Lubbe (; 13 January 1909 – 10 January 1934) was a Dutch communist who was tried, convicted, and executed by the government of Nazi Germany for setting fire to the Reichstag building—the national parliament of Germany—on ...
(1934) * Abdel Khaliq Mahjub (1971) * Peter Matthews (rebel), Peter Matthews (1838) * Afanasi Matushenko (1907) * Vuyisile Mini (1964) * Qazi Mohammad (1947) * Sir
Thomas More Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VII ...
(1535) * David Morgan (Jacobite), 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 (Irish republican), 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) * Bagha Jatin, 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 (abbot), Richard Whiting (1539) * James Wilson (revolutionary), James Wilson (1820) * Robert Wintour (1606) * Thomas Wintour (1606) * John Wrawe (1382) * Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1554) * Lucius Annaeus Seneca (A.D. 65) * Socrates (B.C. 399)


Witchcraft


Other


Executed by Tudors


Beheaded


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


References


External links


USA Executions and Victims since 1977
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