List of people who were executed

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

Arson and sabotage

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

Assassination

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

Espionage

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)

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

Pre-Modern Era (500-1500)

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

Early Modern Era (1500–1800)

19th century

1900s

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

1910s

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

1920s

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

1930s

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

1940s

1950s

• King Faisal II of Iraq (1958)
• Dedan Kimathi (1957)
• Moshe Marzouk (1955)
• Juan José Valle (1956)
• Larbi Ben M'hidi (1957)
• Imre Nagy (1958)
• Evagoras Pallikarides (1957)

1960s

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

1970s

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

1980s

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

Since 1990

• Saddam Hussein (2006)
• Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Naggar (2000)
• Tal'at Fu'ad Qasim (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 (1989)
• Frank Carter (1927) known as "the Phantom Sniper"
• Augustine Chacon (1902) known as "the Hairy One"
• Oba Chandler (2011)
• George Chapman (1903)
• Gao Chengyong (2019) known as "the Gansu Ripper"
• The Chijon family (1995) a South Korean gang
• Andrei Chikatilo (1994) known as "the Butcher of Rostov"
• John Christie (1953)
• Eric Edgar Cooke (1964) known as "the Night Caller"
• Thomas Neill Cream (1892) known as "the Lambeth Poisoner"
• Gordon Cummins (1942) known as "the Blackout Ripper"
• Sarah Dazley (1843) known as "the Potton Poisoner"
• Williamina "Minnie" Dean (1895) only woman executed in New Zealand
• Westley Allan Dodd (1993) first post-Gregg execution in Washington
• Martin Dumollard (1862) known as "the Monster of Montluel"
• Theodore Durrant (1898) known as "the Demon in the Belfry"
• Amelia Dyer (1896) known as "the Ogress of Reading"
• John Errol Ferguson (2013)
• Raymond Fernandez (1951) known as one of the "Lonely Hearts Killers"
• Albert Fish (1936) known as "the Brooklyn Vampire"
• Joseph Paul Franklin (2013)
• John Wayne Gacy (1994) known as "the Killer Clown"
• Gilles Garnier (1573) known as "the Werewolf of Dole"
• Carlton Gary (2018) known as "the Stocking Strangler"
• Donald Henry Gaskins (1991) known as "the Redneck Charles Manson"
• Harvey Glatman (1959) known as "the Glamour Girl Slayer"
• Sergey Golovkin (1996) known as "the Boa", last execution in Russia
• Fritz Haarmann (1925) known as "the Butcher of Hanover"
• John George Haigh (1949) known as "the Acid Bath Murderer"
• Saeed Hanaei (2002) known as "the Spider Killer"
• William Henry Hance (1994) known as "the Force of Evil"
• Robert Dale Henderson (1993)
• H. H. Holmes (1896)
• Yuri Ivanov (1989) known as "the Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac"
• Thomas Jeffrey (1826) known as "Jeffries the Monster"
• Hélène Jégado (1852)
• Jack Harold Jones (2017)
• John Joubert (1996) known as "the Woodford Slasher"
• Willi Kimmritz (1950) perpetrator of the "Horror of the Brandenburg Forest" murders
• Yoshio Kodaira (1949) known as "the Japanese Bluebeard"
• Andrew Kokoraleis (1999) last execution in Illinois
• Vasili Komaroff (1923) known as "the Wolf of Moscow"
• Peter Kürten (1931) known as "the Vampire of Düsseldorf"
• Henri Désiré Landru (1922) known as "the Bluebeard of Gambais"
• Eddie Leonski (1942) known as "the Brownout Strangler"
• Gamal Lineveldt (1941)
• Robert Joseph "Bobby Joe" Long (2019) known as "the Adman Rapist"
• John Lynch (1842) known as "the Berrima Axe Murderer"
• Hiroshi Maeue (2009) known as "the Suicide Website Murderer"
• Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour (2010)
• Peter Manuel (1958) known as "the Beast of Birkenshaw"
• Saad Iskandar Abdel Masih (1953)
• David Mason (1993)
• 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 (2008) known as "the Otaku Murderer"
• Stanislav Modzelevski (1969) known as "the Vampire of Galkovek"
• Catherine Montvoisin (1680) known as "La Voisin"
• Elifasi Msomi (1956)
• Seisaku Nakamura (1943) known as "the Hamamatsu Deaf Killer"
• Earle Nelson (1928) known as "the Dark Strangler"
• Robert Nixon (1939) known as "Brick Moron"
• Gordon Stewart Northcott (1930) known as "the Ape Man"
• Paul Ogorzow (1941) known as "the S-Bahn Murderer"
• Manuel "Manny" Pardo (2012)
• Steven Brian Pennell (1992) known as "the Route 40 Killer", first post-Gregg execution in Delaware
• Marcel Petiot (1946)
• Thomas W. Piper (1876) known as "the Boston Belfry Murderer"
• Harry Powers (1932) known as "the Bluebeard of West Virginia"
• Alfredo Prieto (2015)
• Marion Albert Pruett (1999) known as "the Mad Dog"
• Iskandar Rahmat (2025)
• Gilles de Rais (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 and last execution in Connecticut
• Edward H. Rulloff (1871) known as "the Educated Killer"
• Raya and Sakina (1920)
• Tommy Lynn Sells (2014)
• Abdullah Shah (2004) known as "Zardad's Dog"
• Simicoudza Simicourba (1911)
• Vasily Smirnov (1980) known as "the Gatchina Psychopath"
• George Joseph Smith (1915) perpetrator of the "Brides in the Bath" murders
• Arnold Sodeman (1936) known as "the Schoolgirl Strangler"
• Timothy Wilson Spencer (1994) known as "the Southside Strangler"
• Charles Starkweather (1959)
• Vladimir Storozhenko (1982) known as "the Smolensk Strangler"
• Peter Stumpp (1589) known as "the Werewolf of Bedburg"
• Nicholas Todd Sutton (2020) most recent execution via electric chair
• François Tomasini (1914)
• Jean-Baptiste Troppmann (1870) known as "the Human Tiger"
• Joseph Vacher (1898) known as "the French Ripper"
• Sek Kim Wah (1988) Singapore's first serial killer
• Eugen Weidmann (1939) last public execution in France
• Thomas Whisenhant (2010)
• John Allen Williams known as "the Beltway Sniper"
• Kenneth Williams (2017) most recent execution in Arkansas
• Stanley Williams (2005)
• Douglas Franklin Wright (1996) first post-Gregg execution in Oregon
• Aileen Wuornos (2002)
• Elias Xitavhudzi (1960) known as "the Pangaman"
• Yang Xinhai (2004) known as "the Monster Killer"

Piracy

Political opponents

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

Political purges

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

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

Executed during the Great Purge

Executed members of the 20 July plot

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

Prisoners of war

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

Religious figures

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

Robbery and theft

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

Sexual offences

Homosexuality

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

Sexual assault

Rape

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

Paedophiles

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

Other sex offences

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

Smuggling

• Rosman Abdullah (2024), drug trafficking
• Roger Casement (1916) arms trafficking
• 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 (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 (1586)
• John Baird (1820)
• Thomas Baker (1381)
• John Ball (1381)
• John Ballard (1586)
• Thomas Bates (1606)
• Jerome Bellamy (1586)
• Nikos Beloyannis (1952)
• Lavrenty Beria (1953)
• Thomas Blount (1400)
• Jeremiah Brandreth (1817)
• John Brown (1859)
• Thomas Bryan (1921)
• Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (1753)
• Roger Casement (1916)
• Thomas Cranmer (1556)
• Niren Dasgupta (1915)
• William Davidson (1820)
• Edward Despard (1803)
• Everard Digby (1606)
• Dragutin Dimitrijević (1917)
• Henry Donn (1586)
• Patrick Doyle (1921)
• José María de Torrijos y Uriarte (1831)
• Guy Fawkes (1606)
• Gratien Fernando (1942)
• Cardinal John Fisher (1535)
• Henri de Fleury de Coulan (1666)
• Frank Flood (1921)
• Jopie Fourie (1914)
• Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (1747)
• Robert Gage (1586)
• Joseph Garang (1971)
• Deniz Gezmiş (1972)
• John Grant (1606)
• Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan (1401)
• Fethi Gürcan (1964)
• Jack Hall (1716)
• Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle (1323)
• Andrew Hardie (1820)
• Cai Hesen (1931)
• Milada Horáková (1950)
• Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1572)
• John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford (1537)
• Kanao Inouye (1947)
• Baillie of Jerviswood (1684)
• William Joyce (1946)
• Robert Keyes (1606)
• Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai (1941)
• Stanisław Kunicki (1886)
• William Laud (1645)
• Christopher Layer (1723)
• Vasil Levski (1873)
• Samuel Lount (1838)
• Johannes Lötter (1901)
• Marinus van der Lubbe (1934)
• Abdel Khaliq Mahjub (1971)
• Peter Matthews (1838)
• Afanasi Matushenko (1907)
• Vuyisile Mini (1964)
• Qazi Mohammad (1947)
• Sir Thomas More (1535)
• David Morgan (1746)
• Mengistu Neway (1961)
• Michel Ney (1815)
• John Nisbet (1685)
• Arnaldo Ochoa (1989)
• José Olaya (1823)
• Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1619)
• Anzavur Ahmed Pasha (1921)
• Henry Pedris (1915)
• Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel (1799)
• Vishnu Ganesh Pingle (1915)
• Pir of Pagaro VI (1943)
• Carmelo Borg Pisani (1942)
• Louis Riel (1885)
• Ambrose Rookwood (1606)
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1953)
• Bernard Ryan (1921)
• Fahmi Said (1941)
• Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh (1945)
• Policarpa Salavarrieta (1817)
• Mahmud Salman (1942)
• Heba Selim (1974)
• Kamil Shabib (1944)
• Pyotr Schmidt (1906)
• Theodore Schurch (1946)
• Duncan Scott-Ford (1942)
• Manoranjan Sengupta (1915)
• Abu Taher (1976)
• Arthur Thistlewood (1820)
• Chidiock Tichborne (1586)
• Francis Towneley (1746)
• Thomas Usk (1388)
• Julio Vargas Garayar (1979)
• Andrey Vlasov (1946)
• Perkin Warbeck (1499)
• Richard Whiting (1539)
• James Wilson (1820)
• Robert Wintour (1606)
• Thomas Wintour (1606)
• John Wrawe (1382)
• Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1554)
• 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 (1900–1972)
• Lists of people executed in the United States since 1976

References

External links

• USA Executions and Victims since 1977