List of executioners explained
This is a list of people who have acted as official executioners.
Algeria
| Zachary Wallace Gross | 1843–1856 | |
Alger
| Jacques Baroux | 1842–1847 (first name is sometimes given as Joseph) |
| Nicolas Wolf | 1847–1855 |
| Antoine-François-Joseph Rasseneux | 1855–1871 | |
Monsieur d'Alger: The Executioners of the French Republic
In 1870 the Republic of France abolished all local executioners and named the executioner of Algiers, Antoine Rasseneux, Éxécuteur des Arrêts Criminels en Algérie, which became France's official description of the executioner of Algeria's occupation. From then on there would be one only executioner to carry out death sentences for all of Algeria. Since the colony's executioner was required to live in Algiers, people soon started to refer to him as "Le Monsieur d'Alger" ("The Man From Algiers"). Upon his nomination, Rasseneux was permitted to choose four among France's and Algeria's former local executioners to be his aides.
| Antoine-François-Joseph Rasseneux | 1871–1885 |
| Gustave-Émile Rasseneux | 1885–1892 |
| Pierre Lapeyre | 1892–1928 |
| Henri Roch | 1928–1944 |
| André-Léon Berger | 1944–1947 |
| 1947–1958 (de facto)/1961 (official) |
| 1958–1961 | |
Australia
Austria
Hall in Tirol
| Lienhart von Grätz | 1497–1504 |
| Stefan Ruef | 1503–1525 |
| Hans Schaider | 1525–1528 |
| Heinrich Käser | 1525 |
| Johann Frey | 1528–1571 |
| Melchior Frey | 1572–1578 |
| Christof Tollinger | 1578–1584 |
| Michael Fürst | 1584–1606 |
| Sebastian Oberstetter | 1606–1608 |
| Jakob Kienle | 1608–1611 |
| Jakob Vollmar | 1611–1618 |
| Hans Has | 1618–1642 |
| Heinrich Hödel | 1642–1645 |
| Othmar Krieger | 1645–1671 |
| Jakob Zäch | 1671–1677 |
| Andreas Leiner | 1677–1693 |
| Kaspar Pöltl | 1693–1698 |
| Sebastian Waldl | 1699–1718 |
| Marx Philipp Abrell | 1718–1728 |
| Johann Jakob Abrell | 1728–1746 |
| Josef Langmayr | 1746 |
| Bartholomeus Putzer | 1747–1772 |
| Johann Georg Putzer | 1772–1786 | |
Meran
| Hans Säbele | 1488–1509 |
| Martin Vogl | 1510 |
| Gilg von Rodem | 1510–1515 |
| Heinrich Reif | 1515 and 1521–1522 |
| Lorenz von Altsee | 1515–1521 |
| Heinrich Käser | 1522–1525 |
| Jakob Gatz | 1524 |
| Hans Schwingsmesser | 1525–1536 |
| Theodor Reichl | 1572–1575 |
| Johann Peter Vollmar | 1552–1561 |
| Klaus Seckler | 1562 |
| Melchior Frey | 1563–1572 |
| Mattheus Leonhard | 1575–1601 |
| Hans Fürst | 1592 |
| Georg Fürst | ?–1621 |
| Wolfgang Fürst | 1605–1623 |
| Wolfgang Helmschmied | 1536–1552 |
| Wolfgang Puechamer | 1601–1605 |
| Michael Pichler | 1623–1631 |
| Leonhard Oberdorfer | 1632–1672 |
| Johann Schlechuber | 1672 |
| Hans Schwarzhuber | 1673–1675 |
| Konrad Leonhard Krieger | 1675–1679 |
| Hans Jakob Müller | 1679–1684 |
| Franz Wagner | 1684–1690 |
| Jakob Fürst | 1690–1694 |
| Johann Georg Wacker | 1694–1723 |
| Johann Jakob Abrell | 1723–1728 |
| Johann Georg Kober | 1728–1748 |
| Martin Putzer | 1748–1772 |
| Bartholomeus Putzer | 1772–1777 |
| Franz Michael Putzer | 1777–1787 | |
Salzburg
| Franz Joseph Wohlmut | 1757–1817/21 (deceased 1823) | |
Vienna
| Paul ? | ~1463 |
| Jörg Carlhofer | ~1486 |
| Schrottenbacher family | 1550–1802 |
| Joachim Stein | ~1618 |
| ? Willenbacher | ~1868 (Vienna-Meidling) |
| Johann Hamberger | ~1700 |
| Johann Georg Hoffmann I. | 1802–1827 |
| Simon Abel | 1827–1839 |
| ? Seyfried | 1829– |
| Johann Georg Hoffmann II. | 1839–1865 |
| Johann Georg Hoffmann III. | 1865–1874 |
| Heinrich Willenbacher | 1874–1894 |
| Karl Sellinger | 1862–1899 |
| Josef Lang | 1900–1918 |
| Johann Lang | 1933–1938 | |
Belgium
| ? Ance | ~1789 (Rochefort) |
| Pierre Nieuwland | before 1918 – before 1929 (never executed anyone) | |
Brazil
After 1808, during the Portuguese-Brazilian Kingdom (1808–1822) and the Empire (1822–1889), when Brazil's States were still called "Provinces" and the currency was called "Reis", Brazil had factually abolished torture but was a busy death penalty country.
Method of execution was public hanging by an ultra-short drop of approximately 90 cm (2' 9 11/2"), with the executioner, after having activated the trap door or pushed the convict, according to the gallows's structure, climbed a ladder and launched himself rope downwards, hitting on the convict's shoulders with his weight.
Executioners generally were selected among convicts of capital crimes who had their death sentences stayed for indefinite terms or even commuted for life without parole, and who in exchange for their stays or commutations had to carry out the executions ordered by law. Executioners were, whenever possible, selected from among slaves convicted for a capital crime. And except for the province of Rio Grande do Norte, executioners had obligatorily to be of African descent.
As stayed or commuted convicts, executioners consequently lived as inmates in the prisons of the respective towns where they were based. When an execution was to be carried out elsewhere in his area, the executioner would be transported to the place of execution in chains and sleep in the local prison; after an attempt of murder against Fortunato José in 1834, prisons started separating the executioners from other inmates.
In the province of Rio Grande do Norte, the executioner had always to be the convict scheduled to die next after an execution, so that province's last execution had to be carried out by a firing squad, after the necessary emergency change of execution protocol.
In the state of Rio de Janeiro, after Independence September 7, 1822 there were also free executioners of African descent who having to travel around, were reached by couriers with execution orders.
Executioners, also when slaves, were paid for their executions; at the example of the province of Minas Gerais, we can establish payment was between 4$000 and 12$000 (4 Mil-Reis to 12 Mil-Reis) per execution.
The last execution of a free convict in Brazil was that of José Pereira de Sousa October 30, 1861 in Santa Luzia (nowadays Luziânia), GO. The last execution at all under law in Brazil was that of the slave Francisco April 28, 1876 in Pilar, AL.
Brazil abolished capital punishment officially with the Proclamation of the Republic November 15, 1889, and by law with its first Republican Constitution of 1891 and Penal Code of September 22, 1892.
Bahía
Salvador
| José do Egito | 1823 (refused to carry out his first and only execution, had his stay lifted for it and died executed himself) | |
Feira de Santana
| Joaquim Correia | September 26, 1849 (voluntary executioner, hanged Lucas da Feira; despite white he was allowed to carry out that one since his father, Francisco Correia, had been one of Lucas's victims) | |
Ceará
Fortaleza
| Agostinho Viera | April 27, 1825[1] |
| Francisco Corrêa Pareça | 1835–1845 (executed the mutineers of Laura II October 22, 1839, in Fortaleza, CE) | |
Crato
| Cosme Pereira da Silva (nicknamed "Cosme Cavaco") | 1834–1850 | |
Sobral
| Lourenço Nogueira Campos | 19th century |
| 19th century | |
Minas Gerais
Ouro Preto
| Fortunato José | 1833–1874 (carried out some executions the State of Rio de Janeiro either). | |
São João del Rei
| Antônio Resende | 1833 – after 1848 (executed the Carrancas insurgents in 1833) | |
Paraná
Curitiba
| slave Silvério | active in 1854 | |
Pernambuco
Recife
| João Paulo de Sousa (nicknamed"João Paulo Sagaz" and "Boca Negra") | September 16, 1828 (executioner executed January 19, 1829) |
| slave Felício (nicknamed: "Farinha Sêca") | February 4, 1832 |
| slave Francisco | April 5, 1838 (executioner executed September 5, 1838) |
| nicknamed "Macota" | active in 1844 | |
Caruaru
| Florêncio José Baptista | February 26, 1859 | |
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
| Jerônimo Capitania | active in 1792 – executed Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (Tiradentes) April 21, 1792 |
| Ananias | active in 1850 – executed also in Espírito Santo, including two of the Queimado Insurrection leaders, Chico Prego and João da Viúva in Serra, ES | |
Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre
| slave Manoel | nominated January 12, 1822, by commutuation of his death sentence | |
Canada
| André Bernard | 1645 |
| 1648–1653 |
| ? | 1653–1665 |
| Jacques Daigre | 1665–1680 (last name also given as Daigle) |
| Jean Rattier | 1680–1703 |
| Jacques Élie | 1703/05–1710 |
| Pierre Rattier | 1710–1723 (youngest son of Jean Rattier) |
| Gilles Lenoir | 1726–1728 |
| Malgein | 1728–1730 (a slave from Martinique) |
| Guillaume Langlais | 1730–1733 |
| 1733–1743 (a slave from Martinique) |
| Jean-Baptiste Duclos | 1743–1750 (dit "Saint-Front") |
| 1751–1752 |
| Pierre Gouet | 1754–1755 (nicknamed "Lalime") |
| Denis Quévillon | 1755 (his hanging for theft was his successor Montelle's first job) |
| Joseph Montelle | 1755– |
| 1892–1911 (last name also given as Radcliffe) |
| 1912–1935 (Arthur Ellis was the pseudonym of executioner Arthur Bartholomew English) |
| "Camille Blanchard" | 1935–1960 (Camille Blanchard was the pseudonym that executioner of Canada used) |
| "John Ellis" | 1960–1976 (John Ellis was the pseudonym Canada's last executioner used while interviewed on a TV show) | |
China
| Hu Xiao | (working in 2011)[2] | |
Kingdom of Bohemia / Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
| 1572–1664 (Prague) |
| ? Sperling | ~1578 (Brno) |
| ? Kotzurek | ~1835 (Brno) |
| Alois Seyfried | 1848–1849 (died 1869) (Brno, also last executioner for Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| Johann Baptist Pipperger (Jan Křtitel Piperger in Czech) | 1865–1888 (Prague) |
| Leopold Wohlschläger | 1888–1927 (Prague) |
| ? Nehyba | 1927– |
| Vladimír Trunda | hangman of Milada Horáková, only the name is known |
| František Skořepa | hangman of Rudolf Slánský, only the name is known | |
Denmark
| Theodor Seistrup | 1881–1901 |
| 1906–1929 | |
Egypt
| Hajj Abd Al-Nabi | (chief executioner; active in 2013) |
| Hussein Urni | (district executioner; active in 2013) |
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France
Alsace
Bas-Rhin (67)
Andlau
| Philippe Hertrich | 1702–1732 |
| Philippe Hertrich | 1732–1767 |
| Jean-Gaspard Ostertag | 1767–1780 |
| Léopold Ostertag | 1780–1793 | |
Benfeld
| Jean Ostertag | 1649–1667 |
| Jean-Philippe Roch | 1667–1704 (his last name also appears as Rauch) |
| Matthieu Wees | 1704–1737 |
| François-Joseph Wees | 1737–1749 | |
Bernardswiller
see: Andlau
Bischwiller
| Jean-Henri Hermann | 1690–1692 |
| Jean-Barthélémy Reuter | 1692–1715 |
| Jean-Georges Hermann | 1715–1782 |
| Jean-Michel Hermann | 1782–1793 | |
Bouquenom
see: Sarre-Union
Bouxwiller
| Matthieu Frey | active in 1613 |
| Jean Schild | 1641–1644 |
| Jean-Valentin Wees | 1644–1676 |
| Jean-Philippe Wees | 1676–1689 |
| Jean-Jacques Wees | 1689–1696 |
| Jean-Georges-Frédéric Wees | 1696–1729 |
| Jean-Valentin Wees | 1729–1765 |
| Jean-Michel Wees | 1765–1793 | |
Brumath
| Jean Ostertag | active in 1636 |
| Jean-Georges Wees | active in 1665 |
| Ulrich Schweitzer | c. 1690 |
| Jean-Michel Rhein | 1704–1730 |
| Jean-Jacques Rhein | active in 1730 |
| Frédéric Rhein | active in 1744 |
| Georges-Jacques Grosholtz | active in 1793 | |
Châtenois
Dambach-la-Ville
| Jacques Ostertag | active in 1609 |
| Jean Ostertag | c. 1630–1667 |
| Jean-Jacques Rauch | 1667–1681 |
| Jean Halter | 1681–1716 | |
Diemeringen
| Jean-Nicolas Igel | 1703–1741 | |
Elsenheim
see: Ohnenheim
Epfig
| Thomas Burckhard | active in 1623 |
| Jean Halter | 1716–1750 |
| Ignace Halter | 1750–1762 | |
Erstein
see: Epfig
Fleckenstein (Lembach)
see: Memmelshoffen
Fouchy
Geispolsheim
| Jean-Georges Stoeckel | 1705–1723 |
| Jean-Georges Stoeckel | 1723–1739 | |
Goersdorf
| Jean-Henri Hermann | 1660–1692 |
| Jean-Henri Hermann | c. 1692–1708 |
| Jean-Henri Hermann | c. 1708–1747 |
| Jean-Georges Hermann | c. 1747–1754 |
| Jean-Michel Hermann | 1754–1761 |
| Pierre Hermann | 1761–1767 | |
Gougenheim
| Jean-Louis Schweitzer | 1689–1733 |
| François-Antoine Burck | 1733–1760 |
| Ignace-Jonas Rauch | 1760–1793 | |
Gumbrechtshoffen
see: Gundershoffen
Gundershoffen
| Nicolas Reuter | 1728–1745 |
| Philippe Reuter | c. 1745–1766 |
| Jean-Louis Reuter | 1766–1787 |
| Jean-Louis Reuter | 1787–1793 | |
Haguenau
| Jean Halter | active in 1587 |
| Jean Burckhard | active in 1612 |
| Jean-Georges Wees | 1650–1689 |
| Jean-Jacques Wees | 1690–1712 |
| Philippe Burck | c. 1740–1743 |
| Georges-Frédéric Seidler | active in 1776 | |
Herrlisheim
| Jean-Georges Burckhard | active in 1612 |
| Jean-Jacques Lohri | 1697–1717 |
| Jean-Martin Rhein | 1717–1735 époux de Barbara LOHR habitaient au "Hundsgalgen" (Chroniques familiales Auguste KOCHER) |
| Jean-Valentin Rhein | 1735–1771 nettoyait les prisons en 1774 |
| François-Antoine Wees | 1771–1790 |
| Arbogast Rhein | 1790–1793 époux de Anne Marie HEITZ, une fille Catherine née en 1791 | |
Hochfelden
| Jean-Jacques Kirschner | active in 1686 |
| Jean-Jacques Burckhard | 1686–1701 |
| Jean-Thibaud Stoeckel | 1701–1736/38 |
| Jean-Thibaud Stoeckel | 1736/38–1748 |
| Georges-Adolphe Burck | 1765–1773 |
| Charles-Antoine Burck | 1790–1793 | |
Ingwiller
| Jean Schild | 1644–1647 |
| Jean-Valentin Wees | 1647–1670 (interim; executioner of Bouxwiller) |
| Matthieu Schild | 1670–1722 |
| Jean-Henri Schild | 1722–1741 |
| Jean-Michel Schild | 1741–1763 |
| Jean-Michel Schild | 1763–1793 | |
La Petite-Pierre
| Jean-Pierre Bour | 1739–1763 |
| Jean-Pierre Bour | 1763–1782 |
| François Rhein | 1782–1793 | |
Lalaye
Lauterbourg
| Steinmayer | c. 1635 |
| Jean-Georges Lohri | 1717–1758 | |
Maisonsgoutte
Marckolsheim
| Thomas Burckhard | active in 1623 |
| Jacques Bengler | c. 1670 |
| Jean-Georges Bengler | active in 1676 |
| Jean-Thibaud Bengler | active in 1688 |
| Jean-Michel Bengler | active in 1701 |
| Jean-Georges Bengler | 1717–1740 | |
Marmoutier
| Jean-Georges Ittinger | c. 1690 | |
Memmelshoffen
| Jean-Henri Hirth | active in 1763 | |
Molsheim
| Jean-Valentin Wees | c. 1635–1644 | |
Mommenheim
| Jean-Michel Burckhard | 1699–1739 |
| Antoine Rhein | 1769–1782 | |
Nordhouse
| Jean-Martin Rieger | 1688–1713 |
| Jean-Henri Rhein | 1713–1732 |
| Matthieu Rieger | 1732–1762 |
| François-Joseph Rieger | 1762–1793 | |
Obernai
| Jean Bengler | 1595–1602 |
| Michel Furcht | active in 1609 |
| Michel Lautenmueller | 1609–1614 |
| Pancrace Furcht | 1614–1621 |
| Jean Furcht | 1621–1634 |
| Jean-Georges Heidenreich | 1634–1643 |
| Georges Vollmar | 1643–1657 |
| Jean Halter | 1657–1672 |
| Matthieu Wees | 1672–1720 |
| Christian Wees | 1720–1761 |
| Ignace Halter | 1761–1778 |
| Jean-Gaspard Ostertag | 1778–1780 |
| Léopold Ostertag | 1780–1783 |
| Jean-Baptiste Braun | 1783–1793 | |
Ohnenheim
| Jonas Roch | 1725–1748 (last name also given as Rauch) |
| Jean-Georges-Adolphe Roch | 1748–1775 (last name also given as Rauch) |
| Gervais Roch | 1775–1793 (last name also given as Rauch) | |
Otterswiller
see: Saverne
Petersbach
see: La Petite-Pierre
Reichshoffen
see: Gundershoffen
Reutenbourg
| François Rieger | c. 1720–1730 |
| François-Adam Rieger | 1730–1744 | |
Riedheim
see: Bouxwiller
Sarre-Union
| Jean-Frédéric Schaeffer | 1625–1654 |
| Claude Urich | 1654–1691 |
| Jean-Jacques Grosholtz | 1691–1698 |
| Jean-Philippe Schild | 1698–1735 |
| Jean-Michel Schild | 1735–1769 |
| Pierre Hermann | 1769–1793 | |
Saverne
| Jean-Georges Burck | 1673–1679 |
| Jean-Jacques Rhein | c. 1710–1716 |
| Jean-Jacques Rhein | 1716–1750 |
| Jean-Georges Rhein | 1750–1793 | |
Schopperten
see: Sarre-Union
Sélestat
| Ittinger | active in 1595 |
| Christian Ittinger | 1658–1675 |
| Jean-Henri Burckhard | 1675–1684 |
| Jonas Ittinger | 1684–1699 |
| Georges-Frédéric Grosholtz | 1699–1701 |
| Jonas Felder | c. 1720–1725 |
| Jonas Roch | 1725–1748 (last name also given as Rauch) |
| François Heidenreich | 1777–1793 | |
Strasbourg
| Jean Vollmar | 1562–1577 |
| Gaspard Immion | 1577–1583 |
| Michel Comte | 1583–1587 |
| Jean Halter | 1587–1591 |
| Jean Ginter | 1612–1628 |
| Christian Burckhard | 1631–1670 |
| Jean-Michel Grosholtz | 1670–1686 |
| Jean-Melchior Grosholtz | 1686–1691 |
| Jean-Michel Grosholtz | 1691–1724 |
| Jean-Georges Franck | 1724–1756 |
| Jean-Joseph Grosholtz | 1756–1761 |
| Valentin Grosholtz | 1763–1785 |
| Georges-Frédéric Maegert | 1785–1807 |
| Georges-Louis Maegert | 1807–1830 |
| Georges-Frédéric Maegert | 1830–1849 |
| Laurent Bornacini | 1849–1850 | |
Surbourg
| Jean-Guillaume Stoeckel | 1723–1757 |
| Antoine Stoeckel | 1757–1768 | |
Villé
| Jean-Georges Burckhard | 1687–1705 |
| Jean-Conrad Ginter | 1705–1710 |
| Melchior Burckhard | 1717–1730 |
| Jean-Georges Burckhard | 1730–1732 |
| Antoine Ginter | 1732–1746 |
| Jean-Michel Ginter | 1746–1747 |
| François-Joseph Burckhard | 1747–1748 |
| Melchior Rhein | 1748–1787 |
| Georges-Frédéric Mengis | 1787–1793 | |
Wasselonne
| Christian Burckhard | c. 1670–1689 |
| Jean-Georges Burckhard | 1689–1700 |
| Jean-Nicolas Franck | 1700–1708 |
| Jean-Jacques Grosholtz | 1708–1717 |
| Jean-Conrad Bauernfeind | 1750–1790 |
| Jean Bauernfeind | 1790–1793 | |
Westhoffen
see: Wasselonne
Weyersheim
| Thibaud Burckhard | active in 1612 |
| Georges-Frédéric Burck | 1717–1739 |
| Jean-Jacques Reuter | active in 1762 | |
Wissembourg
| Lazare Wees | active in 1650 |
| Jean-Michel Vollmar | 1706–1711 |
| Jean-Pierre Steinmayer | active in 1715 | |
Haut-Rhin (68)
Altkirch
| Georges Fleischmann | active in 1584 |
| Erhard Gilg | active in 1624 |
| Michel Ginter | active in 1627 |
| Jacques Ginter | active in 1630 |
| Henri Fleischmann | active in 1636 |
| Georges-Frédéric Heidenreich | 1647–1654 |
| Matthieu Ostertag | 1654–1694 |
| Georges-Adolphe Ostertag | 1694–1730 |
| Jean Ortscheid | 1730–1754 |
| Jean-Philippe Burck | 1754–1781 |
| François-Joseph-Antoine Ostertag | 1781–1793 | |
Biesheim
| Melchior Ginter | 1688–1714 |
| Melchior Ginter | 1714–1737 |
| Georges-Frédéric Mengis | active in 1749 |
| Protais Roch | 1788–1793 (last name also appears as Rauch) | |
Colmar
| Jean Heyd | c. 1440 |
| Jean Buebe | 1454–1458 |
| Henri Schaedel | active in 1474 |
| Christian Mueller | 1598–1642 |
| Jean-Georges Heidenreich | 1644–1679 |
| Melchior Ginter | 1679–1692 |
| Georges-Adolphe Heidenreich | 1692–1716 |
| Jean-Jacques Ginter | 1716–1722 |
| Melchior Ginter | 1722–1733 |
| Georges-Frédéric Ginter | 1733–1736 |
| Georges-Frédéric Burckhard | 1736–1747 |
| Georges-Michel Vollmar | 1747–1754 |
| Georges-Frédéric Vollmar | 1754–1764 |
| Jean-Jacques Vollmar | 1764–1806 |
| Jean-Guillaume Vollmar | 1806–1833 |
| Jean Zimber | 1833–1841 |
| Matthieu Spirckel | 1841–1847 |
| Nicolas Cané | 1847–1870 | |
Ensisheim
| Ittinger | c. 1650 |
| Jean-Georges Mengis | 1671–1693 |
| Georges-Melchior Mengis | 1693–1699 |
| Jean-Michel Mengis | 1699–1721 |
| Pierre Mengis | 1721–1736 |
| François-Michel Roth | 1768–1793 | |
Ferrette
| Jean Gilg | 1570–1582 |
| Jean Gilg | 1582–1619 |
| Erhard Gillig | 1619–1620 |
| Matthieu Mercklen | active in 1628 |
| Matthieu Ostertag | 1677–1735 |
| Georges-Frédéric Ostertag | 1735–1746 |
| Jean-Jacques Comte | 1746–1764 |
| François-Oswald Seidler | 1764–1780 |
| François-Antoine Comte | 1780–1790 | |
Landser
| Jean-Erhard Baumert | 1611–1628 |
| Thomas Burckhard | 1628–1629 |
| Wernhard Grosholtz | 1629–1640 |
| Martin Grosholtz | 1640–1653 |
| Jean Ostertag | 1653–1717 |
| Matthieu Ostertag | 1717–1729 |
| Jean-Georges Ostertag | 1729–1736 |
| Pierre Mengis | 1736–1753 |
| François-Joseph-Antoine Ostertag | 1753–1793 | |
Masevaux
| Thibaud Lacour | c. 1665 |
| Jean-Josse Ostertag | 1680–1685 |
| Laurent Ostertag | 1706–1736 |
| Jacques-Christophe Ostertag | 1736–1762 |
| Georges-Frédéric Seidler | 1762–1769 |
| Christophe Ostertag | 1769–1793 | |
Morschwiller-le-Bas
see: Mulhouse
Mulhouse
| Jean Mennly | c. 1507 |
| Guy Bartlin | 1545–1553 |
| Barthélémy Iring | 1553–1554 |
| Louis Kremer | 1554–1555 |
| Jean Waltz | 1555–1560 |
| Jean Hummel | 1560–1565 |
| Jacques Rueb | 1565–1569 |
| Gaspard Fues | 1569–1587 |
| Martin Hummel | 1587–1596 |
| Ulrich Grosholtz | 1596–1624 |
| Jean-Michel Grosholtz | 1624–1637 |
| Jérôme Ginter | 1637–1662 |
| Christian Burckhard | 1662–1678 |
| Christian Burckhard | 1678–1709 |
| Jean-Rodolphe Vollmar | 1709–1712 |
| Jean-Etienne Hirschfeld | 1712–1735 |
| Jean-Henri Naeher | 1735–1764 |
| Pierre Mengis | 1753–1764 |
| François Mengis | 1764–1775 |
| Pierre Mengis | 1775–1793 |
| François-Joseph-Pierre-César Mengis | 1793–1798 | |
Ribeauvillé
| Jean Bardouil | active in 1633 |
| Jean-Michel Burckhard | 1660–1697 |
| Jean-Georges Burck | 1697–1727 |
| Jean-Georges Burck | 1727–1764 |
| Jean-Georges Burck | 1764–1790 |
| Jean-Georges Burck | 1790–1793 | |
Rouffach
| Jean-Conrad Ginter | 1600–1615 |
| Melchior Ginter | 1615–1634 |
| Melchior Ginter | 1634–1649 |
| Jean Fuend | 1649–1652 |
| Jean-Jacques Ginter | 1652–1653 |
| Matthieu Fuend | active in 1653 |
| Melchior Ginter | 1653–1681 |
| Melchior Ginter | 1681–1714 |
| Melchior Ginter | 1714–1733 |
| Georges-Frédéric Seidler | 1733–1775 |
| Gervais-Frédéric Seidler | 1775–1793 | |
Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines
see: Ribeauvillé
Thann
| Bibwand | c. 1545 |
| Balthazar Schaeflein | 1580–1615 |
| Balthazar Ginter | 1615–1626 |
| Balthazar Schaeflein | 1626–1634 |
| Balthazar Schaeflein | 1634–1660 |
| Melchior Ginter | 1660–1664 |
| Balthazar Schaeflein | 1664–1691 |
| Jean-Georges Ostertag | 1691–1718 |
| Matthieu Ostertag | 1718–1748 |
| Jean-Baptiste Reisser | 1748–1767 |
| Jean-Joseph Reisser | 1767–1791 |
| Jean-Philippe Ostertag | 1791–1793 | |
Traubach (Traubach-le-Bas and Traubach-le-Haut)
See also: Traubach-le-Bas.
| Jean-Jacques Ginter | 1679–1686 |
| Melchior Burckhard | 1686–1691 |
| Christian Burckhard | 1717–1743 |
| Jean-Jacques Burckhard | 1750–1767 |
| Joseph Ostertag | 1764–1774 |
| Jean-Jacques Ostertag | 1774–1793 | |
Vieux-Thann
see: Thann
Zimmerbach
| Christian Hertrich | active in 1613 | |
Aquitaine
Dordogne (24)
Périgueux
| Matthieu Pradel | 1779–1822 |
| Pierre Pradel | 1822–1827 |
| Louis-François-Gabriel Deville | 1827–1837 |
| Jean-Baptiste Champin | 1837–1839 |
| Jean Rascat | 1839–1849 | |
Gironde (33)
Bordeaux
| Lauffort | active in 1416 |
| Jean Maloizeau | active in 1455 |
| Jean Maloizeau | active in 1502 |
| Bernard Robert | c. 1525 |
| Jansenot de Fousse | active in 1535 |
| Jamet de Fousse | active in 1542 |
| Pierre de Villac | active in 1542 |
| Guichard Deymier | 1549–1552 |
| Arnaud de Villac | c. 1562 |
| Jacques de Villac | c. 1570 |
| Louis Maubert | c. 1580 |
| André Chaigneau | active in 1582 |
| Pierre de La Boucherie | 1596–1598 |
| Pierre Gantet | active in 1665 |
| Julien Dupré | 1674–1675 |
| Pierre Duret | active in 1675 |
| Antoine Royère | active in 1675 |
| Arnaud Pignot | 1675–1684 |
| Guillaume Lespine | 1684–1685 |
| François Marquison | active in 1686 |
| Jean Escuvé | 1700–1706 |
| Louis Verdier | 1706–1731 |
| Pierre Verdier | 1731–1760 |
| Jean Faroux | 1760–1780 |
| Jean Peyrussan | 1780–1788 |
| Jean Peyrussan | 1788–1801 |
| Jean Peyrussan | 1801–1809 |
| Jean Peyrussan | 1809–1819 |
| Jean-Baptiste Scarron | 1819–1821 |
| Joseph Sauvage | 1821–1853 |
| Henri-Charles Desmorest | 1853–1870 | |
Landes (40)
Dax
| Jean-Louis Hébert | 1792–1795 |
| François-Claude Chrétien | 1795–1797 |
| Bénigne-Nicolas-François Brochard | 1797–1798 |
| Jean Peyrussan | 1798–1806 |
| Raymond Peyrussan | 1806–1822 |
| François Peyrussan | 1822–1846 |
| Jean-Baptiste-Louis Roch | 1846–1849 (last name also given as Rauch) | |
Lot-et-Garonne (47)
Agen
| Maurice | c. 1575 |
| Jean Gastebois | 1691–1692 |
| Jean Rascat | 1784–1788 |
| Guillaume Augé | 1788–1793 |
| Jean Peyrussan | 1793–1794 |
| Pierre Rigal | 1794–1796 |
| Joseph Peyrussan | 1796–1802 |
| Gilles-François Berger | 1802–1805 |
| François Berger | 1805–1808 |
| Joseph Pavot | 1808–1827 |
| Pierre Berger | 1827–1831 |
| Jean-Pierre Étienne | 1831–1839 |
| Jean-Baptiste Champin | 1839–1856 |
| Vincent Bornacini | 1856–1860 |
| Laurent-Désiré Desmorest | 1860–1870 | |
Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64)
Bayonne
| Jean Faroux | 1729–1738 |
| Vidal | active in 1746 |
| Jean-Pierre Peyrussan | 1746–1792 |
| Gelpy | 1792–1793 | |
Pau
| Guillaume Gayme | active in 1463 |
| Simon Marensin | 1640–1643 |
| Jean Desplats | 1643–1644 |
| Henri Dubois | 1653–1660 |
| Dubois | active in 1660 |
| Antoine Cassou | 1740–1765 |
| Jean Cassou | 1765–1780 |
| Jean Faroux | 1780–1822 |
| Joseph Faroux | 1822–1853 |
| Vincent Bornacini | 1853–1856 |
| Joseph Rascat | 1856–1870 | |
Auvergne
Allier (03)
Moulins
| Jérôme Bodin | 1762–1767 |
| Jean Desfourneaux | active in 1767 |
| Jean-Baptiste Jean | 1793–1828 |
| Jacques-Christophe Gruneisen | 1828–1841 (his last name is also rendered as Grinheiser) |
| Louis-Jacques-Eugène Gruneisen | 1841–1849 (his last name is also rendered as Grinheiser) | |
Cantal (15)
Aurillac
| Jean Robertie | 1716–1750 |
| Jean Robertie | 1750–1761 |
| Antoine-Michel Foyez | 1761–1763 |
| André-Joseph Foyez | 1763–1793 |
| Joseph Foyez | 1793–1795 | |
Saint-Flour
| Tourette | active in 1790 |
| Jean Foyez | 1790–1823 |
| André-Joseph Foyez | 1823–1835 |
| Bernard Gatheuil | 1835–1836 |
| Joseph-Antoine Deibler | 1836–1853 | |
Haute-Loire (43)
Le-Puy-en-Velay
| Jean Lacroix | 1780–1789 |
| François Faroux | 1800–1802 |
| Claude Hermann | 1802–1815 |
| Nicolas Hermann | 1815–1842 |
| Eloi-Désiré Hermann | 1842–1850 | |
Puy-de-Dôme (63)
Clermont-Ferrand (former Clermont-d'Auvergne)
| Jean Dubois | c. 1720 |
| Pierre Dubois | 1730–1749 |
| Geniès Armilhon | 1749–1764 |
| Martin Courtois | 1764–1789 |
| Frédéric Courtois | 1789–1790 |
| Simon Jean | 1790–1791 | |
Riom
| Simon Jean | 1791–1798 |
| Michel Benoist | 1798–1803 |
| François Étienne | active in 1843 | |
Basse-Normandie
Calvados (14)
Bayeux
| Charles-Louis Jouenne | 1774–1776 | |
Caen
| Nicolas-Jean Jouenne | 1621–1633 |
| Nicolas-Robert Jouenne | 1663–1692 |
| Nicolas Férey | 1727–1738 |
| Charles-François Jouenne | 1738–1748 |
| Charles-Lubin Jouenne | 1748–1776 |
| Nicolas-François Férey | 1761–1763 |
| Charles-Louis Jouënne | 1776–1820 |
| Charles-Nicolas-Lubin Jouënne | 1820–1840 |
| Matthieu Spirckel | 1840–1841 |
| Nicolas Wolff | 1841–1847 (from 1847 to 1855 executioner of Alger, Algeria) |
| Joseph Baroux | 1847–1849 |
| Eugène Ganié | 1849–1850 |
| Louis-Jacques-Eugène Gruneisen | 1850–1870 (his name also appears as Grinheiser) | |
Falaise
| Jean Bouëtard | 1724–1748 |
| Jean Bouëtard | 1748–1755 |
| Etienne Martin | 1755–1770 |
| Charles-Louis Jouenne | 1770–1793 |
| Nicolas-Richard Jouenne | 1770–1793 | |
Lisieux
| Guillaume Dubut | active in 1440 | |
Orbec
| Pierre Barbon | 1735–1742 |
| Nicolas Férey | active in 1742 |
| Nicolas Férey | 1742–1754 |
| Charles Lacaille | 1754–1760 | |
Pont-l'Évêque
| Thomas Lacaille | 1725–1731 |
| Charles Lacaille | 1731–1754 |
| Michel-Jean Martin | 1787–1793 | |
Vire
| François Férey | active in 1725 | |
Manche (50)
Avranches
| Lubin Vallet | 1717–1719 |
| Joseph Morin | active in 1719 | |
Coutances
| Jean Gerbault | active in 1589 |
| Mathurin Vallet | 1682–1710 |
| Lubin Vallet | 1710–1717 |
| François Férey | 1717 |
| Charles Morin | 1717–1727 |
| Nicolas-François Férey | 1750–1760 |
| Charles-Jean-Baptiste Sénéchal | 1760–1761 |
| Charles-Lubin Jouënne | 1761–1775 |
| Charles-Louis Jouënne | 1775–1794 |
| Charles Lacaille | 1794–1807 |
| François-Lubin Desmorest | 1807–1849 | |
Saint-Lô
| Pierre Martin | 1730–1739 |
| Étienne Martin | 1739–1755 |
| Pierre Martin | 1739–1770 |
| Maurice Lantier | active in 1789 | |
Orne (61)
Alençon
| François Corneillet | 1718–1731 |
| Michel-Louis Bouëtard | active in 1731 |
| Jacques-Michel Bouëtard | 1774–1793 |
| Michel Bouëtard | 1774–1793 |
| Pierre-Denis Ganié | 1793–1810 |
| Louis Filliaux | 1810–1821 |
| Joseph Ganié | 1821–1849 | |
Bellême
Mortagne-au-Perche
Mortagne-au-Perche
| Nicolas Durand | 1730–1738 |
| Michel Durand | 1738–1741 |
| Jean-Joseph Durand | 1738–1786 |
| Michel Durand | 1780–1786 |
| Pierre-Denis Ganié | 1786–1793 |
| Nicolas-Lubin Jouenne | 1786–1788 | |
Bourgogne
Côte-d'Or (21)
Beaune
| Pierre Minard | active in 1574 |
| Morlot | active in 1575 |
| Damien Tombereau | active in 1582 |
| Jean Pancquotet | active in 1584 | |
Dijon
| Jean Blaigny | 1416–1417 |
| Arny Signart | active in 1430 |
| Étienne Poisson | 1465–1470 |
| Jean Larmite | 1470–1473 |
| Jean Dupoix | 1473–1478 |
| Jean Minot | 1478–1487 |
| Thomas Regnault | 1487–1490 |
| Joseph Blanchet | 1487–1490 |
| Jean Alory | 1490–1493 |
| Jean Blanleu | 1493–1520 |
| Jean Beurey | 1520–1524 |
| Vincent Rapeneaul | 1524–1536 |
| Pierre Berbier | 1536–1538 |
| Pierre Dufresne | 1538–1545 |
| Sylvestre Champonnet | 1545–1546 |
| Jacques Silvestre | 1546–1558 |
| Hilaire Benoist | 1558–1568 |
| Claude Tussault | 1568–1572 |
| Pierre Fleuriet | 1572–1593 |
| Claude Chrétien | 1607–1611 |
| Jacques Brun | 1610–1611 |
| Jean Chrétien | 1611–1615 |
| Simon Grandjean | 1615–1625 (lynched together with his wife in the end of a botched beheading) |
| Gaspard Perrier | 1637–1647 |
| Perrot-Morisot | 1647–1660 |
| Jacques Champion | 1660–1671 |
| Antoine Petit | 1671–1680 |
| Jacques Drouot | 1680–1695 |
| Matthieu Champion | 1695–1698 |
| Nicolas Vallot | 1698–1710 |
| Jean Champion | 1710–1720 |
| Jean Griveau | 1720–1724 |
| Joeph Gerboin | 1724–1729 |
| Pierre Champion | 1729–1741 |
| Martin Chefdeville | 1741–1745 |
| Martin Millot | 1745–1748 |
| François Montagne | 1748–1759 |
| Claude-Laurent Chrétien | 1759–1763 |
| François Chefdeville | 1763–1794 |
| Nicolas-François Férey | 1794–1797 |
| Louis-Gabriel Bellat | 1797 |
| Philibert-Joseph Vermeille | 1797–1799 |
| Paul Martinet | 1799–1801 |
| Louis-Charles-Martin Sanson | 1801–1808 |
| Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Desmorest | 1808–1823 |
| Joseph-Antoine Deibler | 1823–1827 |
| Charles-Louis Lacaille | 1827–1839 |
| François-Joseph Desmorest | 1839 |
| Dominique Martinet | 1839–1841 |
| Henri-Charles Desmorest | 1841 |
| Nicolas Chtarque | 1841–1844 |
| François Étienne | 1844–1870 | |
Semur-en-Auxois
| Gaspard Perrier | 1630–1637 | |
Nièvre (58)
Nevers
| Jean Chasteau | active in 1522 |
| Jean de Norry | 1668–1677 |
| Georges Brunet | 1677–1710 |
| Pierre Bellin | 1710–1712 |
| Gabriel Amariton | 1712–1721 |
| Jean Bodin | 1743–1750 |
| Louis Remon | 1750–1752 |
| Pierre Gilles | 1752–1760 |
| Joseph Tisserand | 1760–1761 |
| Jean Tisserand | 1761–1805 |
| Laurent Pourra | 1805–1815 |
| François Étienne | 1815–1835 |
| François Étienne | 1835–1843 |
| Antoine Étienne | 1843–1845 |
| ? Palle | 1845–1849 | |
Saône-et-Loire (71)
Autun
| Jacques Brun | active in 1610 | |
Châlon-sur-Saône
| Jacques Quantin | c. 1645 |
| Matthieu Champion | 1690–1695 |
| Pierre Champion | 1695–1721 |
| François Champion | 1721–1745 |
| Pierre Champion | 1745–1750 |
| Pierre Henry | 1750–1762 |
| Lafrance | 1762–1764 |
| Claude-Laurent Chrétien | 1764–1770 |
| Quentin Brochard | 1770–1793 |
| Claude-Antoine Chrétien | 1793–1804 |
| François-Joseph Heidenreich | c. 1806 | |
Mâcon
| Denis Gromon | active in 1610 |
| Jean Thévenet | active in 1714 | |
Yonne (89)
Auxerre
| Claude Martigny | c. 1600–1610 |
| Joseph Gerboin | 1716–1717 |
| Jean Hérisson | 1717–1733 |
| Jean Brochard | 1733–1758 |
| Nicolas Brochard | 1758–1787 |
| Henri Bickler | 1787–1807 |
| Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Desmorest | 1807–1808 |
| Louis-Charles-Martin Sanson | 1808–1812 |
| Pierre-Nicolas Jouenne | 1812–1822 |
| Pierre-Joseph Doubleau | 1822–1849 | |
Sens
| Jean Le Nain | 1577–1580 |
| Claude Nignet | active in 1598 |
| Jean Doubleau | 1660–1680 |
| Pierre Doubleau | 1680–1715 |
| Charles Brochard | 1715–1722 |
| Nicolas Brochard | 1722–1727 |
| Pierre Daucourt | 1727–1732 |
| Jacques Tisserand | 1732–1734 |
| Joseph Doubleau | 1734–1746 |
| Jean Brochard | 1746–1758 |
| Jean-Charles Brochard | 1758–1793 | |
Bretagne
Côtes-d'Armor (22; Côtes-du-Nord before 1990)
Saint-Brieuc
| Charles-Lubin Lacaille | 1792–1822 |
| Auguste Gassouin | 1822–1840 |
| Charles-Marie-Louis Lacaille | 1840–1842 |
| Jacques-Henri Ganié | 1842–1845 |
| Joseph Ganié | 1845–1853 | |
Finistère (29)
Quimper
| Jacques Le Glaouer | 1712–1759 |
| Jean Le Glaouer | 1759–1773 |
| Maurice Le Glaouer | 1773–1793 |
| Hervé Le Glaouer | 1793–1804 |
| François Lacaille | 1804–1805 |
| Paul Miraucourt | 1805 |
| Georges Miraucourt | 1805–1807 |
| Hervé-Joseph Le Glaouer | 1807–1815 |
| Jean-Baptiste Michel | 1815–1817 |
| Laurent Rhein | 1817–1821 |
| Germain Benoist | 1821–1823 |
| Claude-François Desmorest | 1823–1849 | |
Ille-et-Vilaine (35)
Rennes
| Cousinet | c. 1617 |
| Étienne Normandeau | 1700–1723 |
| Jean Verdier | 1723–1730 |
| Jacques Ganié | 1730–1752 |
| François-Thomas Férey | 1752–1757 |
| Jacques-Joseph Ganié | 1757–1786 |
| François-Joseph Férey | 1786–1792 |
| Gabriel-Joseph Dupuy | 1792–1815 |
| Henri Bickler | 1815–1852 |
| Jean-Emile Grosholtz | 1852–1853 |
| Joseph-Antoine Deibler | 1853–1863 |
| Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Deibler | 1863–1871 (after 1871 the executioner of the republic in Paris) | |
Morbihan (56)
Vannes
| François Guay | active in 1653 |
| Pierre Tillard | active in 1657 |
| Gervais Judic | active in 1686 |
| François Guay | active in 1693 |
| Jean Verdier | active in 1686 |
| Pierre Ganié | active in 1736 |
| Jacques Verdier | 1752–1753 |
| François Prudhomme | 1753–1764 |
| Jean Verdier | 1764–1770 |
| Charles-François Prudhomme | 1770–1777 |
| Louis-François Prudhomme | 1777–1779 |
| Charles-François Prudhomme | 1777–1813 |
| Charles-Louis Prudhomme | 1777–1813 |
| François Ganié | 1841–1849 | |
Centre-Val de Loire (Centre before 2015)
Cher (18)
Bourges
| Pierre Mayet | 1656–1662 |
| Blaise Thiéry | 1662–1681 |
| Michel de Larousse | 1681–1690 |
| Jean Bessois | 1690–1699 |
| Jean Brunet | 1699–1707 |
| Michel Brunet | 1707–1719 |
| François Adam | 1719–1739 |
| Charles Esnault | 1739–1742 |
| Pierre Desfourneaux | 1742–1769 |
| Jacques Desfourneaux | 1769–1779 |
| François Desfourneaux | 1779–1788 |
| Ulrich Fischer | 1788–1829 |
| Pierre-Etienne Fischer | 1829–1841 |
| Christophe-Henri Desmorest | 1841–1849 | |
Vierzon
| Georges Aurillault | 1624–1627 |
| Claude Aurillault | 1627–1635 |
| Hubert Bouard | 1636–1691 |
| Jean de Larousse | 1691–1696 |
| Claude Esnault | 1696–1698 |
| Charles Esnault | 1698–1706 |
| Jean Desfourneaux | 1706–1747 |
| Jean Desfourneaux | 1747–1755 |
| François Desfourneaux | 1755–1792 | |
Eure-et-Loir (28)
Bonneval
| Robert Divray | active in 1584 | |
Chartres
| Robert Beaufils | active in 1581 |
| Jean Baudry | c. 1600 |
| Lubin Baudry | 1604–1627 |
| Lubin Baudry | 1627–1647 |
| Pierre Corneillet | 1647–1657 |
| Nicolas Le Vavasseur | 1672–1681 |
| Antoine-François Deville | 1781–1808 |
| François-Eloi Deville | 1808–1826 |
| Jean-Eloi Deville | 1826–1846 |
| Henri-François Deville | 1846–1849 | |
Châteaudun
| Guillaume Artus | 1496–1497 |
| Jacques Fulbert | 1556–1557 |
| Yves Tontonnay | active in 1564 |
| Jacques Guictray | 1577–1580 |
| Joachim Guictray | 1582–1584 |
| Michel Leliepvre | 1602–1616 |
| Jacques Landeau | 1625–1629 |
| Laurent Landeau | 1629–1651 |
| Louis Landeau | 1651–1663 |
| Nicolas Brunet | 1663–1686 |
| Claude Esnault | 1686–1691 |
| François Tardiveau | 1691–1714 |
| Aignan Proust | 1714–1744 |
| Jean-Baptiste Proust | 1744–1772 |
| Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Étienne | 1772–1793 | |
Indre (36)
Châteauroux
| Pierre Desfourneaux | 1792–1834 |
| Jacques Cané | 1834–1849 (last name also rendered as Canin) |
| François-Joseph Desmorest | active in 1837 | |
Issoudun
| Charles Esnault | 1706–1718 |
| Matthieu de Larousse | 1718–1735 |
| Louis-Pierre Hébert | 1735–1749 |
| Gilbert-Matthieu de Larousse | 1749–1752 |
| Louis-Charles Hébert | 1749–1752 |
| Charles-François de Vallereau | 1752–1760 |
| François Desfourneaux | 1760–1792 | |
Indre-et-Loire (37)
Amboise
| Jacques Berger | 1690–1722 |
| Jacques Berger | 1722–1744 |
| Martin Berger | 1744–1760 |
| Gilles-François-Nicolas-Martin Berger | 1783–1793 | |
Chinon
| René Condenay | 1680–1700 |
| Jean Condenay | 1700–1711 |
| Louis Duchesne | 1711–1718 |
| Michel Clément | 1718–1720 |
| Louis Ayrault | 1720–1730 |
| Etienne Robert | 1730–1735 |
| Jacques-Bernard Lefébure | 1735–1738 |
| Gilles Férey | 1738–1753 |
| Jean-Louis Ayrault | 1762–1783 |
| Gilles-François Berger | 1783–1793 | |
L'Île-Bouchard
see: Chinon
Loches
| Étienne-Louis Normandeau | 1730–1740 |
| Jean Bodin | 1740–1743 |
| Vincent Jamet | 1743–1754 |
| Jean-Louis Ayrault | 1754–1758 |
| Quentin Brochard | 1762–1770 |
| Claude-Henri Chrétien | 1772–1789 |
| François-Claude Chrétien | 1789–1793 | |
Tours
| Denis | 1461–1488 |
| Jacques Lefébure | 1640–1654 |
| François Berger | 1654–1690 |
| Jacques Berger | 1690–1722 |
| Antoine Berger | 1722–1744 |
| Gilles-François-Nicolas Berger | 1744–1768 |
| Louis-Charles-Martin Sanson | 1768–1795 |
| Pierre-François-Etienne Desmorest | 1795–1830 |
| François-Louis-Henri Desmorest | 1830–1849 | |
Loir-et-Cher (41)
Blois
| Guillaume Guillard | 1373–1374 |
| Laurent Robert | c. 1600 |
| Blaise Robert | 1609–1649 |
| Jean Robert | 1649–1665 |
| Louis Robert | 1665–1667 |
| Nicolas Esnault | 1667–1698 |
| Jean Berger | 1698–1710 |
| Jean Berger | 1710–1718 |
| Jean de Larousse | 1718–1721 |
| François Trémont | 1721–1761 |
| Pierre-André-Louis Desmorest | active in 1761 |
| Joseph Doubleau | 1761–1795 |
| Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Sanson | 1795–1799 |
| Joseph Doubleau | 1799–1800 |
| Charles-Louis Férey | 1800–1826 |
| André-Louis Férey | 1826–1832 |
| Charles-François Desfourneaux | 1832–1849 | |
Romorantin-Lanthenay
Vendôme
| Guillaume Landeau | 1600–1629 |
| Jacques Landeau | 1629–1640 |
| Louis Landeau | 1640–1692 |
| Pierre Trémont | 1692–1747 |
| Henri-Pierre Trémont | 1747–1756 |
| François Brunet | 1756–1775 |
| François Montagne | 1775–1793 | |
Loiret (45)
Gien
| Louis Macé | 1582–1583 |
| Charles Brochard | 1715–1722 |
| Jean Brochard | 1722–1745 |
| Pierre Tapetoux | 1745–1789 |
| Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Étienne | 1789–1793 | |
Montargis
| Joseph Gerboin | 1704–1717 |
| Georges Hérisson | 1717–1718 |
| Jean Berger | 1718–1720 |
| Jean Hérisson | 1720–1727 |
| René Berger | 1727–1733 |
| Louis-François Hébert | 1797–1801 | |
Orléans
| Pierre Robert | c. 1430 |
| Jean Legros | c. 1600 |
| Matthieu Legros | active in 1627 |
| Simon Boudineau | 1648–1656 |
| Jacques Leroy | 1656–1658 |
| Nicolas Martinot | 1658–1670 |
| Louis Tardiveau | 1670–1699 |
| Jean Desmorest | 1699–1700 |
| Louis Tardiveau | 1700–1707 |
| Michel Tardiveau | 1707–1715 |
| Henri Tardiveau | 1715–1735 |
| François Tardiveau | 1735–1736 |
| Aignan Proust | 1736–1740 |
| Nicolas Berger | 1740–1758 |
| Henri-Alexis Tardiveau | 1758–1771 |
| Pierre-François Étienne | 1771–1789 |
| Charles-François Férey | 1789–1820 |
| Gabriel-Auguste Desmorest | 1820–1870 | |
Champagne-Ardenne
Ardennes (08)
Sedan
| Pierre Barbier | 1690–1722 |
| Pierre Barbier | 1722–1727 |
| Jean Barbier | 1727–1731 |
| Simon Barbier | 1731 |
| Pierre Barbier | 1731–1773 |
| Simon Barbier | 1773–1779 |
| Jean-François Barbier | 1779–1828 |
| Pierre Barbier | 1779–1828 |
| François Barbier | 1828–1841 |
| Philippe Wolff | 1841–1842 |
| Christophe Reine | 1842–1849 (his last name also appears as Rhein) | |
Aube (10)
Troyes
| Guillaume | active in 1432 |
| Maigret | active in 1571 |
| Maxime Doublot | 1710–1715 |
| Nicolas L'Arné | 1715–1729 |
| Antoine Doublot | 1729–1736 |
| Hubert Doublot | 1736–1750 |
| Jean Doublot | 1750–1761 |
| François Blondeau | 1761–1770 |
| Jean-Baptiste Doublot | 1770–1787 |
| Louis-Michel Olivier | 1787–1823 |
| Joseph-Nicolas Fauconnier | 1823–1841 | |
Marne (51)
Châlons-en-Champagne
| Louis Saffret | 1606–1628 |
| Séverin Saffret | 1628–1632 |
| Pierre Lévesque | 1632–1638 |
| Louis Saffret | 1638–1643 |
| Jean Saffret | 1667–1679 |
| Jacques Jean | 1679–1688 |
| Jacques Michelin | 1688–1702 |
| Pierre Daniel | 1702–1709 |
| Nicolas Desmorest | 1709–1730 |
| Simon Desmorest | 1730–1742 |
| Jean Desmorest | 1742–1777 |
| Jean-Baptiste Desmorest | 1777–1780 |
| Jean-Simon Desmorest | 1780–1793 | |
Chatillon-sur-Marne
| Simon Jean | 1770–1780 |
| Simon-Hippolyte Desmorest | 1780–1788 | |
Épernay
| Claude Belleville | active in 1629 |
| Antoine Guibourg | 1683–1702 |
| Simon Hébert | 1702–1730 |
| Charles Jouënne | 1730–1736 |
| Martin Jean | 1736–1740 |
| Simon Jean | 1740–1752 |
| François-Hippolyte Desmorest | 1752–1788 |
| Simon-Hippolyte Desmorest | 1788–1793 | |
Reims
| Pierre Lormant | active in 1684 |
| Charles Michelin | 1692–1698 |
| Pierre Daniel | 1698–1702 |
| Pierre Daniel | 1723–1726 |
| Charles-François Jouenne | 1726–1735 |
| Pierre Daniel | 1735–1738 |
| Louis-Adam Hébert | 1738–1743 |
| Jean-Louis Hébert | 1743–1744 |
| Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Sanson | 1744–1770 |
| Jean-Louis Sanson | 1770–1793 |
| Jean-Simon Desmorest | 1793–1798 |
| Jean-Louis Desmorest | 1798–1828 |
| François-Louis Desmorest | 1828–1853 | |
Vitry-le-François
| Louis Saffret | active in 1628 |
| Louis Saffret | active in 1688 |
| Jean-Baptiste Barré | 1688–1693 |
| Jacques Jean | 1693–1725 |
| Martin Jean | 1725–1733 |
| Louis Guitton | 1733–1743 |
| Jean-Pierre-Henri Dalembourg | 1743–1745 |
| Nicolas Dalembourg | 1745–1747 |
| Jean-Baptiste Desmorest | 1747–1774 |
| Jean-Baptiste Desmorest | 1774–1793 | |
Haute-Marne (52)
Bourmont
| Jean Chrétien | 1731–1735 |
| Claude Bour | 1735–1737 |
| Léopold Bour | 1737–1771 |
| Claude-Charles Bour | 1771–1793 | |
Chaumont
| Pierre Daucourt | 1693–1732 |
| Jean Gueldre | 1732–1760 |
| Henri Gueldre | 1760–1805 |
| Nicolas Cané | 1805–1825 |
| François Cané | 1825–1835 | |
Langres
| Simon Grandjean | active in 1615 |
| Rémi Henry | 1717–1721 |
| Michel Henry | 1721–1729 |
| Robert Daucort | 1729–1732 |
| Joseph Tisserand | 1732–1757 |
| Claude-Michel Chrétien | 1757–1793 | |
Corse
With a four-year delay in 1875 also Corsica was integrated into the area of the executioner of the republic's activity; see: Monsieur de ParisFor the different department numbers, before 1976 Corsica used to be one department only and was codenumbered with 20 by then.
Corse-du-Sud (2A)
Ajaccio
| René Giudici | 1799–1800 (his last name is also rendered as René Jugé) |
| Jean-François Hermann | 1803–1804 |
| Bernardin Porro | 1804–1806 |
| Dominique Paglia | 1806–1808 |
| Antoine Vollmar | 1808–1809 |
| Jean Peyrussian | 1809–1812 | |
Haute-Corse (2B)
Bastia
| Jean-Pierre Combé | 1805–1809 |
| François Étienne | 1809–1813 |
| Louis Simaliot | 1813–1826 |
| Jean-Baptiste Simaliot | 1826–1840 |
| Michel Porro | 1840–1851 |
| Antoine-François-Balthazar Porro | 1851–1852 |
| Louis-Marie Douran | 1852–1853 |
| Vincent Bornacini | 1853 |
| Louis-Henri Desmorest | 1853–1873/74 |
| Désiré Herman | 1873/74–1875 | |
Franche-Comté
Doubs (25)
Besançon
| Jean-Jacques Karpf | active in 1718 |
| Nicolas-François Dupuy | 1762–1765 |
| Claude-Antoine Chrétien | 1765–1794 |
| Nicolas Hermann | 1794–1809 |
| François Étienne | 1809 |
| Jean-Pierre Urich | 1809–1846 |
| Jean-Georges Burck | 1846–1849 |
| François-Ferréol Pierrot | 1849–1858 |
| Jacques-Henri Ganié | 1858–1862 |
| Georges-Louis-Gustave Pierrot | 1862–1870 | |
Blamont
| Joachim Fleurdelis | 1685–1686 |
| Joseph Denthe | 1686–1695 |
| Melchior Ginter | 1754–1760/61 | |
Montbéliard
| Jacques Fleurdelis | 1615–1627 |
| Jacques Fleurdelis | 1642–1670 |
| Jean Fleurdelis | 1670–1680 |
| Jacques Fleurdelis | 1680–1700 |
| Pierre Fleurdelis | 1700–1729 |
| Pierre Fleurdelis | 1729–1749 |
| Gaspard Boilley | 1749–1768 |
| Pierre Fleurdelis | 1768–1793 | |
Jura (39)
Dole
Lons-le-Saunier
| Désiré Giboz | 1794–1803 |
| Jean-Baptiste Cané | 1803–1827 |
| Germain Burck | 1827–1838 (last name sometimes written Purgy) |
| François-Joseph Desmorest | 1838–1849 |
| Nicolas Roch | 1849–1851 (last name also given as Rauch) | |
Haute-Saône (70)
Vesoul
| Claude-Laurent Chrétien | 1793–1805 |
| Nicolas Pierrot | 1805–1823 |
| François-Ferréol Pierrot | 1823–1849 | |
Territoire de Belfort (90)
Belfort
| Joseph Comte | c. 1650 |
| Joseph Comte | 1668–1726 |
| Nicolas-Antoine Comte | 1726–1739 |
| Jean-Pierre Comte | 1739–1780 |
| Jean-Pierre-Nicolas Comte | 1780–1793 | |
Faverois
| Pancrace | 1648–1656 |
| Jean Fleury | active in 1665 |
| Laurent Lacour | 1665–1672 |
| Martin Lacour | 1672–1674 |
| Ehrard Lacour | 1682–1716 |
| Jean-Georges Lacour | 1716–1739 |
| Jean-Georges Reichlin | 1739–1752 |
| Jean-Georges Lacour | 1752–1793 | |
Grandvillars
| Joachim Comte | 1673–1725 |
| Jean-François Comte | 1725–1744 |
| Jean Fleurdelis | 1744–1781 | |
Montreux
| Jacques Denthe | c. 1670–1674 |
| Jean-Georges Denthe | 1674–1725 | |
Haute-Normandie
Eure (27)
Évreux
| Robert Le Vavasseur | 1598–1618 |
| Etienne Le Vavasseur | 1626–1649 |
| Louis Le Vavasseur | 1649–1658 |
| François Le Vavasseur | 1675–1681 |
| Nicolas Le Vavasseur | 1681–1687 |
| Lubin Jouenne | 1687–1700 |
| Lubin Jouenne | 1720–1725 |
| Louis Jouenne | 1725–1737 |
| Jean-Baptiste Sénéchal | 1725–1737 |
| Nicolas-Louis Jouenne | 1737–1750 |
| Nicolas-Lubin Jouenne | 1737–1758 |
| Nicolas-Louis Jouenne | 1758–1780 |
| Nicolas-Louis Jouenne | 1784–1802 |
| André-Thomas Férey | 1810–1824 |
| Amand Leroy | 1824–1844 |
| Louis-Marie-Dauphin Benoist | 1844 |
| Raymond Peyrussan | 1844–1846 |
| Louis-Julien-Fortuné Leroy | 1846–1849 | |
Gisors
| Jean-Baptiste Carlier | 1712–1733 |
| Georges Carlier | 1733–1741 |
| Michel Durand | 1741–1765 |
| Jean-Louis Olivier | 1765–1794 | |
Pont-Audemer
| Lubin Jouenne | 1700–1722 |
| Lubin Vallet | 1722–1727 |
| François Férey | 1727–1735 |
| Nicolas Férey | 1735–1738 |
| François Férey | 1738–1742 |
| François-Charles-Gabriel Férey | 1742–1769 |
| Maixent-François Férey | 1769–1785 |
| François-Joseph Férey | 1769–1791 | |
Seine-Maritime (76)
Caudebec-en-Caux
| Nicolas Jouenne | active in 1202 (last name also given as Jouhanne) |
| ? Jouenne | mentioned in 1380–1384 (last name also given as Jouhanne, nicknamed "Jouhanne-Justice) |
| Martin Lecupeur | 1384–1409 |
| ? Marescot | c. 1450 |
| Robin Jouenne | active in 1460 |
| Guillaume Jouenne | active in 1507 |
| Pierre Jouenne | active in 1675 |
| ? Dumontier | active in 1706–1710 |
| Jacques Dubourg | 1710–1713 |
| Charles Dubourg | 1713–1719 |
| Martin Rossignol | 1719–1723 |
| Nicolas-François Damonville | 1723–1738 |
| Nicolas Férey | 1738–1742 |
| François-Thomas Férey | 1742–1770 |
| Charles Férey | 1742–1770 |
| Charles-Lubin Jouenne | 1770–1776 |
| Nicolas-Richard Jouenne | 1776–1787 |
| Michel-Jean Leroy | 1787–1793 | |
Dièppe
| Pierre Jouenne | −1662 (last name also referred to as Juoanne) |
| 1662- |
| Pierre Jouenne | active in 1675 (last name also referred to as Juoanne) |
| Nicolas Férey | active in 1738 |
| Charles Jouenne | active in 1780 | |
Rouen
| Simon Dailly | c. 1400 |
| Geoffroy Thérage | 1406/07–1432 (or after; executed Jeanne d'Arc; last name also rendered as Thiérache) |
| Pierre Lecomte | active in 1607 |
| Pierre Jouenne | 1660–1681 |
| Guillaume Malloeuvre | 1681–1688 |
| Nicolas Le Vavasseur | 1688–1694 |
| Martin Le Vavasseur | 1694–1703 |
| Jean-Baptiste Morin | 1703–1704 |
| Lubin Jouenne | 1704–1724 |
| Jean-Baptiste Sénéchal | 1724–1725 |
| Nicolas Férey | 1725–1735 |
| Charles Férey | 1735–1796 |
| Nicolas-François Férey | 1735–1750 |
| François-Thomas Férey | 1735–1782 |
| Charles-André-Louis Férey | 1796–1811 |
| Charles-André Férey | 1811–1847 |
| 1847–1848 |
| ? Rhein | 1848–1870 | |
Île-de-France
Paris (75)
Prévoté de l'Hôtel du Roi
| Etienne Lebré | active in 1417 |
| Fleurant | - 1516 |
| Macé | active in 1523 |
| Jean Guillaume | 1590–1594 |
| Denis Corneillet | 1594–1616 |
| Henriet Cousin | mid-17th century |
| Oudet Barré | 1653–1671 | |
Prévoté de Paris
| Thévenot | 1278–1320 (last name also given as Estevenot) |
| Nicolas | 1322–1358 |
| Colart Provignon | 1358 or after – c. 1380 or before |
| Pierre Dupré | c. 1380 - c. 1400, active in 1383 (last name also written as du Pré) |
| Geoffroy | 1407–1411/13 (name also appears as Guieffroy) |
| Capeluche | 1411/13–1418 (before being executed in 1418 or 1419, Capeluche trained his executioner himself) |
| Jean Tiphaine | active in 1418 |
| Colin Foucher | active in 1445 |
| Henri Cousin | 1460 - before 1477 |
| Jean Cousin | - 1477 |
| Pierre Philippart | c. 1478 |
| Tristan | active in 1484 |
| Jacques Dulac | active in 1502 |
| Robin Serre | active in 1507 |
| Jacquet | 1507 |
| Florent Bazard | 1507–1516 (his last name also appears as Bazart; lynched after a botched execution) |
| Rotillon | 1516–1529 |
| Pierre Pommerelle | 1529-? |
| Macé | 1543–1553 |
| Jean Rozeau | 1555/58–1594 |
| Jean Guillaume | 1594–1620 |
| Jean Guillaume | 1620–1666 |
| François Guillaume | 1666–1672 |
| Antoine de France | 1672–1674 |
| André Guillaume | 1674–1682 |
| Jean Carlié | 1682–1687 |
| Nicolas Levasseur | 1687–1688 (his last name also appears as Le Vavasseur) |
| Charles-Louis Sanson | 1688–1699 (de facto) / 1703 (official) |
| Charles Sanson | 1699 (de facto)/1707 (official) – 1726 |
| François Prudhomme | 1726–1739 (interim executioner) |
| Charles-Jean-Baptiste Sanson | 26 (official)/1739 (de facto)–1754 (de facto)/1766/1778 (official) |
| 1754 (de facto)/1766/1778 (official) – 1795 (de facto)/1804 (official) |
| Henri Sanson | 1795 (de facto)/1804 (official) – 1840 |
| 1840–1847 (he was an inveterate abolitionist) |
| Charles-André Férey | 1847–1849 |
| 1849–1871 | |
Seine-et-Marne (77)
Meaux
| Pierre Corneillet | 1648–1660 |
| André Guillaume | 1660–1665 |
| Denis Barré | 1665–1680 |
| Louis Hébert | 1680–1709 |
| Pierre Daniel | 1709–1723 |
| Louis-François Hébert | 1723–1724 |
| Louis-Adam Hébert | 1724–1738 |
| Jean-Louis Hébert | 1738–1743 |
| Louis-Adam Hébert | 1743–1761 |
| Louis-Adam Hébert | 1761–1770 |
| Jean-Louis Hébert | 1770–1793 | |
Melun
| Jean Hérisson | c. 1765–1787 |
| Georges Hérisson | 1687–1716 |
| Georges Hérisson | 1716–1721 |
| Georges-René Hérisson | 1721–1723 |
| Georges Hérisson | 1723–1727 |
| Antoine-Pierre Dubut | 1727 |
| Jean Hérisson | 1727–1746 |
| Pierre Hérisson | 1746–1787 |
| Pierre-André-Louis Desmorest | 1787–1788 |
| Nicolas-Lubin Jouenne | 1788–1826 |
| Nicolas-Placide Doubleau | 1826–1849 | |
Provins
| Robert Sénécart | –1571 |
| Jean Hérisson | 1740–1742 |
| Jean Pichon | 1742–1762 |
| Jean-Rémi Pichon | 1762–1768 |
| Louis-Cyr-Charlemagne Sanson | 1768–1789 |
| André-Thomas Férey | 1789–1793 | |
Yvelines (78)
Mantes
| Michel Le Vavasseur | 1625–1631 |
| Jean Bouëtard | active in 1689 |
| Nicolas Le Marchand | 1689–1722 |
| Nicolas Le Marchand | 1722–1737 |
| Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Le Marchand | 1737–1755 |
| Michel Durand | 1755–1780 |
| Louis-Michel Olivier | 1780–1788 |
| Pierre-André-Louis Olivier | 1780–1793 | |
Meulan
see: Mantes
Montfort-l'Amaury
Versailles (Prévoté de l'Hôtel du Roi)
| Robert Anise | 1671–1680 |
| Robert Le Marchand | 1680–1690 |
| Jean Carlier | 1690–1733 |
| François Prudhomme | 1733–1749 |
| Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Sanson | 1749−1778 |
| 1778–1788 |
| Louis-Cyr-Charlemagne Sanson | 1788–1794 | |
Prévôté de Versailles
| Louis-Jean Dupuy | 1794–1795 |
| Jean Boursier | 1795–1808 |
| François-Nicolas Férey | 1808–1817 |
| Jean-Baptiste Scarron | 1817–1819 |
| Germain Benoist | 1819–1821 |
| Laurent Rhein | 1821–1846 |
| Jean-Henri Rhein | 1846–1849 | |
Essonne (91)
Dourdan
see: Étampes
Étampes
| Léonard Leprince | 1549–1556 |
| David Devoire | 1598–1623 |
| Jean Duchamp | active in 1641 |
| Jean Berger | 1662–1677 |
| François Berger | 1677–1694 |
| André-Louis Desmorest | 1694–1740 |
| André-Louis Desmorest | 1740–1763 |
| Pierre-André-Louis Desmorest | 1763–1793 | |
La Ferté-Alais
see: Étampes
Hauts-de-Seine 92
No local executioner known so far
Seine-Saint-Denis (93)
No local executioner known so far
Val-de-Marne (94)
No local executioner known so far
Val-d'Oise (95)
Pontoise
| Jean-Baptiste Carlier | 1699–1712 |
| Jean-Baptiste Carlier | 1712–1732 |
| Jean-Baptiste Carlier | 1732–1742 |
| Jean-Baptiste-François Carlier | en 1742–1782 |
| Jean-Baptiste-François Carlier | 1782–1793 | |
Languedoc-Roussillon
Aude (11)
Carcassonne
| Pierre de Lafont | active in 1538 |
| Jean Lapeyre | 1545–1561 |
| André | 1561–1566 |
| Jean Maigre | 1566–1580 |
| Jean Roizat | 1580 |
| Jean Sesherbe | 1580–1593 |
| Antoine Faret | 1593–1594 |
| Jacques de Laplanche | 1594–1600 |
| Benoît Libès | 1600 |
| Antoine Ferrier | 1600–1603 |
| Jean Bon | 1603 |
| Gaillard Bourd | 1603–1610 |
| Bernard Dauriac | c. 1640 |
| Pierre Puech | c. 1645–1650 (his last name also appears as Pech) |
| Antoine Bourset | active in 1719 |
| Bernardin Blaize | 1770–1786 |
| Pierre Blanc | 1786–1793 |
| Etienne-Victor Rives | 1793 |
| ? Roch | 1793 (interim executioner; his last name also appears as Rauch) |
| François Berger | 1793 (interim; executioner of Tarbes) |
| Jean-Philibert Ginier | 1793–1795 |
| Pierre Chevalier | 1795–1801 |
| François Berger | 1801–1804 |
| Jean-François-Philibert Robineau | 1804–1823 |
| Laurent-Denis Robineau | 1823–1827 |
| Philibert-Godefroy Robineau | 1827–1840 |
| Georges Miraucourt | 1840–1849 | |
Castelnaudary
| Jean Vernhet | 1522–1538 |
| Antoine Ferrier | 1579–1589 |
| Jean Boussac | active in 1619 | |
Limoux
| Antoine Blanc | 1572–1578 |
| Jean Cronhac | 1578–1582 |
| Guillaume Teissère | 1582–1584 |
| Jean Sesherbe | 1584–1585 (interim; executioner of Carcassonne) |
| Jean Jacmes | 1585–1603 |
| Antoine Ferrier | 1603–? | |
Narbonne
| Guillaume Teissère | 1567–1570 | |
Gard (30)
Nîmes
| Barthélémy Querol | 1573–1589 |
| Jean Cabrière | 1590–1611 |
| Jean Arman | active in 1646 |
| Victor Deltet | 1775–1780 |
| Marcelin Berthoumier | 1791–1792 (interim; executioner of Montpellier) |
| Dominique Vassalo | 1792–1795 |
| François-Louis-Hippolyte Desmorest | 1795–1814 |
| Jean-Baptiste Desmorest | 1814–1816 |
| Pierre-Vivien Debost | 1816–1830 |
| Jean-Nicolas Cané | 1830–1853 |
| Martin-Pierre-Joseph Berger | 1853–1870 | |
Hérault (34)
Montpellier
| Jacques Thiesame | active in 1460 |
| André Bonissi | c. 1470 |
| François Lacombe | active in 1585 |
| Claude Bausillon | c. 1610 |
| Pierre Arnaud | 1624–1628 |
| Étienne Roquefort | active in 1645 |
| Pierre Gineste | active in 1657 |
| Marcelin Berthoumier | 1791–1794 |
| Barthélémy Mauvin | 1794–1795 |
| Jean Boursier | active in 1795 |
| Gilles-François-Nicolas-Martin Berger | 1795–1799 |
| Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Sanson | 1799–1800 |
| Louis-Victor Sanson | 1800–1802 |
| Pierre-Joseph Vermeille | 1802–1808 |
| Jean-Baptiste Desmorest | 1808–1811 |
| François Guillot | 1811–1818 |
| Antoine Guillot | 1818–1825 |
| Jean-Pierre Guillot | 1825–1832 |
| Léonard Richim | 1832–1833 |
| Joseph-Louis Claret | 1833–1860 |
| Auguste-Paul Roch | 1860–1870 (his last name also appears as Rauch) | |
Lozère (48)
Mende
| Gilles-François-Nicolas-Martin Berger | Active in 1794 |
| Jean-Pierre Boitquin | 1799–1801 |
| Jean-Pierre Roch | 1801 (last name sometimes written as Rauch) |
| Nicolas Cané | 1801–1805 |
| François Roch | 1805–1848 (last name sometimes written as Rauch) | |
Pyrénées-Orientales (66)
Perpignan
| Jacques del Arnau | 1682–1687 |
| Carrera | 1688–1699 |
| Traginer | 1700–1709 |
| Raphaël del Arnau | 1711–1723 |
| Simon Grio | active in 1724 |
| Antoine Denis | 1733–1734 |
| Nicolas-Alexis Montagne | 1772–1779 |
| Claude Thouvenin | 1779–1782 |
| Jean Camille | 1782–1791 |
| Bernardin Blaize | active in 1791 |
| Antoine Varennes | 1791–1793 |
| Jean Crossy | 1793–1797 |
| Jean-François-Philibert Robineau | 1797–1798 |
| Jean-Pierre Bickler | 1818–1819 |
| Laurent Bickler | 1819–1839 |
| Martin-Pierre-Joseph Berger | 1839–1850 | |
Limousin
Corrèze (19)
Brive-la-Gaillarde
| Bernard Varennes | 1720s–1730s |
| Michel Benoist | 1756–1788 |
| Aureil Mendé | 1788–1793 | |
Tulle
| Jean Gumond | active in 1761 |
| François Benoist | 1789–1804 |
| Valentin Grosholtz | 1804–1820 |
| Louis Grosholtz | 1820–1823 |
| Jean Grosholtz | 1823–1849 | |
Creuse (23)
Guéret
| Léonard Chanton | active in 1715 |
| Jean-Pierre François | 1783–1786 |
| Pierre-Etienne François | 1786–1798 |
| François-Joseph Férey | 1798–1808 |
| Pierre-Jacques Nord | 1808–1849 | |
Haute-Vienne 87
Limoges
| Louis Vivien | 1792–1798 |
| Louis Gendron | 1716–1720 |
| Pierre Chaussonnier | 1720–1725 |
| Pierre Pradel | 1798–1802 |
| Antoine Hiezely | 1802–1826 |
| Louis Hiezely | 1826–1848 |
| Nicolas Hiezely | 1848–1849 |
| Nicolas Grosholtz | 1849–1853 |
| François-Louis-Henri Desmorest | 1853–1870 | |
Lorraine
Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Baccarat
| François-Joseph Hiezely | 1719–1739 |
| Jean-Michel Hiezely | 1739–1777 |
| Georges-Antoine Hiezely | 1777–1793 | |
Badonviller
| Bernard Eisenhuet | active in 1598 |
| Marc Hausser | 1603–1604 |
| Jean-Nicolas Laury | 1685–1686 |
| Georges Hiezely | 1722–1732 |
| Claude-Antoine Hiezely | 1732–1762 |
| Jean-Pierre Chrétien | 1777–1793 | |
Bauzemont
| Pierre Courtois | 1712–1748 |
| Jean-François Courtois | 1748–1763 |
| Nicolas Thouvenin | 1763–1772 |
| Jean-François Courtois | 1772–1793 | |
Bayon
| Charles Magnard | active in 1691 |
| Jean-François Courtois | 1730–1740 |
| Dominique Courtois | 1758–1779 |
| Joseph-François Wolff | 1779–1793 | |
Blâmont
| Georges Hiezely | 1719–1722 |
| Nicolas Parisot | 1722–1754 |
| Jean-Jacques Hermann | 1761–1783 |
| Jean-François Hermann | 1783–1790 |
| Jean-Nicolas Fixard | 1790–1793 | |
Briey
| Jean Schweitzer | active in 1675 |
| Jean-Léonard Henry | 1701–1711 |
| Bernard Back | 1711–1725 |
| Jean-Pierre Dillenburg | 1725–1733 |
| Jean-Baptiste Dillenburg | 1733–1752 |
| Jean-Pierre Thiéry | 1752–1754 |
| Jean-Baptiste Dillenburg | 1754–1761 |
| Jean-Antoine Roch | 1761–1793 (last name also given as Rauch) | |
Conflans-en-Jarnisy
| Henri Labille | 1717–1735 |
| Louis Thomas | 1735–1736 |
| Jean-Pierre Thiéry | 1736–1750 |
| Laurent Viard | 1750–1793 | |
Deneuvre
see: Baccarat
Domjevin
see: Bauzemont
Einville-au-Jard
| Jean-Pierre Duval | 1743–1758 |
| Jean Cané | 1758–1790 |
| Jean-Baptiste-Oswald Cané | 1790–1793 | |
Foug
Gerbéviller
| Pierre Wolff | 1743–1778 |
| François Wolff | 1778–1793 | |
Haraucourt
see: Einville-au-Jard
Harbouey
see: Blâmont
Longuyon
| Corneille Back | 1710–1715 |
| Matthieu Labille | 1715–1748 |
| Jean Labille | 1748–1792 |
| Jean-Nicolas Cané | 1772–1775 |
| Jean Labille | 1775–1777 |
| Jean-Henri Labille | 1777–1793 | |
Longwy
| Pierre Bour | 1692–1693 |
| Jean-Nicolas Back | 1693–1701 |
| Nicolas Klein | 1701–1718 |
| Jean Klein | 1718–1752 |
| Joseph Klein | 1752–1761 |
| Jean-Nicolas Roch | 1761–1790 (last name also given as Rauch) |
| Jean-Pierre Roch | 1790–1793 (last name also given as Rauch) | |
Lunéville
| François Henry | 1700–1713 |
| Jean-Léonard Henry | 1713–1720 |
| Claude Duval | 1720–1743 |
| Jean-Pierre Duval | 1743–1764 |
| Jean-Nicolas Roch | 1764–1766 (last name also appears as Rauch) |
| Marguerite Cané | 1766–1784 (one of France's most long-termed female executioners) |
| Jean-François Hermann | 1784–1793 | |
Nancy
| Jean-Georges Duval | 1658–1680 |
| Nicolas Suisse | 1680–1684 (his last name also appears as Schweitzer) |
| Jean-Jacques Burckhard | 1684–1705 |
| Jean-Pierre Bour | 1705–1718 |
| Jean-Pierre Bour | 1718–1730 |
| Jacobé Rieger | 1730–1732 (Jean-Pierre Bour's wife and after 1730 widow; one of the rare cases a woman was appointed) |
| François Roch | 1732–1747 (Jacobé Rieger's new husband; his last name is also given as Rauch) |
| Jean-Pierre Rhein | 1747–1758 |
| Laurent Roch | 1758–1779 (his last name is also given as Rauch) |
| Jean-Pierre Spirckel | 1779–1799 |
| Jean-Nicolas Roch | 1799–1823 (his last name is also given as Rauch) |
| Nicolas Cané | 1823–1847 |
| Matthieu Spirckel | 1847–1870 | |
Nomény
see: Pont-à-Mousson
Norroy-le-Sec
| Bernard Back | 1715–1741 |
| Claude Back | 1741–1781 |
| Jean-Baptiste Thiéry | 1781–1793 | |
Pont-à-Mousson
| Goeury Pichon | active in 1709 |
| Jean-Pierre Bickler | c. 1722 |
| Christophe-Séraphin Bickler | 1734–1757 |
| Jean-Pierre Bickler | 1757–1783 |
| Christophe Bickler | 1783–1793 | |
Réchicourt-la-Petite
see: Blâmont
Saint-Clément
see: Baccarat
Saint-Nicolas-de-Port
| Nicolas Valois | 1650–1683 |
| Rémi Karpf | active in 1720 |
| Jean-Jacques Parisot | 1716–1733 |
| Jean-Philippe Rhein | 1733–1762 |
| François Rhein | 1762–1776 |
| Jean-Jacques Roch | 1776–1793 (his last name is sometimes given as Rauch) | |
Sancy
| Bernard Back | 1715–1741 |
| Claude Back | 1741–1783 |
| Jean-Nicolas Roch | 1783–1793 (last name also written as Rauch) | |
Thézey-Saint-Martin
see: Delme at Moselle (57)
Thiaucourt (Thiaucourt-Regniéville)
See also: Thiaucourt. see: Pont-à-Mousson
Toul
| Claude Miraucourt | 1670–1679 |
| Claude Miraucourt | 1692–1699 |
| Antoine Hermann | 1708–1714 |
| Jean-Charles Valois | 1714–1728 |
| Jean-Georges Roch | 1728–1748 (last name also given as Rauch) |
| François Roch | 1748–1761 (last name also given as Rauch) |
| Laurent Bickler | 1761–1776 |
| François Roch | 1776–1790 (last name also given as Rauch) |
| Nicolas Cané | 1790–1793 | |
Ville-sur-Yron
see: Conflans-en-Jarnisy
Villers-la-Montagne
| Bernard Back | 1725–1741 |
| Matthieu Back | 1741–1748 |
| Jean-Nicolas Roch | 1748–1772 (last name may also appear as Rauch) |
| Jean-Pierre-Laurent Roch | 1772–1775 (last name may also appear as Rauch) |
| Laurent-Nicolas Roch | 1775–1793 (last name may also appear as Rauch) | |
Meuse (55)
Arrancy-sur-Crusne
see: Longuyon at Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Avioth
| Jean-Nicolas Labille | 1720–1742 |
| Jean-Pierre Labille | 1742–1775 |
| Michel Labille | 1775–1793 | |
Bar-le-Duc
| Pierre Chapuzot | 1630–1657 |
| Claude Chapuzot | 1667–1686 |
| Jacques Chapuzot | active in 1696 |
| Martin Castagnière | 1708–1731 |
| Jean-Conrad Rhein | 1731–1752 |
| Simon Jean | 1752–1770 |
| Jean-François Hiezely | 1770–1776 |
| Laurent Rhein | 1777–1793 | |
Billy-sous-Mangiennes
| François François | 1740–1759 |
| Jean-Nicolas Cané | 1759–1786 |
| Jean-Louis Cané | 1786–1793 | |
Commercy
| Jean-Nicolas Guerchoux | 1746–1768 |
| Louis Thomas | 1768–1772 |
| Jean-Pierre Roch | 1772–1790 (last name also given as Rauch) |
| Nicolas Cané | 1790–1793 | |
Damvillers
| Jean François | 1706–1734 |
| François François | 1734–1768 |
| Pierre-Etienne François | 1768–1786 |
| Paul François | 1786–1793 | |
Étain
| Claude Suisse | 1715–1719 (his last name also appears as Schweitzer) |
| Pierre Étienne | 1719–1750 |
| Jean-Pierre Thiéry | 1750–1752 |
| François Étienne | 1752–1759 |
| Jean-Pierre Thiéry | 1759–1793 | |
Fresnes-en-Woëvre
| François-Edmé Duval | 1684–1731 |
| Jean Cané | 1731–1740 |
| Jean-Pierre Urich | 1740–1745 |
| Antoine-Martin Urich | 1745–1779 |
| Jean-Pierre Urich | 1745–1786 |
| Nicolas Thiéry | 1786–1793 | |
Herméville-en-Woëvre
| François-Edmé Duval | 1684–1726 |
| Jean-Pierre Miraucourt | 1726–1754 |
| Paul Miraucourt | 1754–1765 |
| François Miraucourt | 1765–1793 | |
Marville
| Jean-Nicolas Labille | 1720–1748 |
| Jean-Nicolas Labille | 1748–1777 |
| Michel Labille | 1777–1793 | |
Montmédy
| Jean-Nicolas Labille | 1720–1748 |
| Jean Labille | 1748–1787 | |
Saint-Mihiel
| Christophe-Séraphin Bickler | 1722–1752 |
| Jean-Pierre Thiéry | 1752–1757 |
| Jean-Pierre Bickler | 1757–1766 |
| Christophe Bickler | 1766–1823 |
| Simon-Hippolyte Desmorest | 1823–1849 | |
Verdun
| Jean Gaultier | 1532–1536 |
| Jean Gaultier | active in 1575 |
| Martin Jean | c. 1630 |
| Jean Miraucourt | 1640–1668 |
| Nicolas Blin | 1668–1679 |
| Claude Miraucourt | 1679–1708 |
| Pierre Étienne | 1708–1762 |
| François Étienne | 1762–1791 |
| Antoine Étienne | 1791–1793 | |
Moselle (57)
Ancerville
| Claude Guerchoux | 1681–1710 |
| Jean Guerchoux | 1710–1758 |
| Jean-Laurent Guerchoux | 1758–1793 | |
Angevillers
| Hermann Roch | c. 1700 (last name also given as Rauch) |
| Simon Klein | 1714–1730 |
| Christophe-Séraphin Bickler | 1722–1741 |
| Jean-Nicolas Rauch | 1741–1751 (last name also given as Rauch) |
| Jean Grauel | 1774–1793 | |
Ay-sur-Moselle
see: Buding
Bambiderstroff
see: Courcelles-sur-Nied
Béchy
| Jean-Nicolas Back | 1697–1701 |
| Claude Guerchoux | 1701–1710 |
| Jean Guerchoux | 1710–1722 |
| François Guerchoux | 1722–1780 |
| Guillaume Back | 1780–1793 | |
Beux
see: Béchy
Bitche
see: Schorbach
Boulay
| Nicolas Schweitzer | active in 1613 |
| Christophe Schwartz | 1618–1621 |
| Jean-Jacques Rhein | 1621–1663 |
| Jean-Pierre Back | 1663–1703 |
| Jean-Georges Back | 1703–1731 |
| Jean-Pierre Wolff | 1731–1786 |
| Jean Wolff | 1786–1787 |
| Jean-Nicolas Wolff | 1787–1793 | |
Buding
| Jean-Pierre Spirckel | 1744–1787 |
| Laurent Rauch | 1787–1793 | |
Budling
see: Buding
Château-Salins
| Nicolas Godot | c. 1700 |
| Jean Godot | c. 1720 |
| Jean Godot | 1738–1753 |
| Martin Courtois | 1753–1759 |
| Louis Thomas | 1759–1777 |
| Louis Thomas | 1793 | |
Château-Voué
see: Dieuze
Courcelles-Chaussy
| Mauclair | active in 1679 |
| François Lhôpital | c. 1730–1737 |
| Oswald Rhein | 1737–1756 |
| Jean-Henri Rhein | 1756–1787 |
| Georges Miraucourt | 1787–1793 | |
Courcelles-sur-Nied
| Antoine Scherr | c. 1720 |
| Georges Scherr | c. 1740 |
| Nicolas Scherr | 1750–1756 |
| Jean-Pierre Miraucourt | 1756–1793 | |
Delme
| Claude Thomas | c. 1700–1719 |
| Nicolas Thomas | 1719–1748 |
| Michel Thomas | 1748–1784 |
| Jean Thomas | 1784–1793 | |
Dieuze
| Laurent Urich | c. 1620–1654 |
| Claude Urich | 1654–1691 |
| Jean-Jacques Bour | 1691–1699 |
| Claude Hermann | 1699–1733 |
| Jean Hermann | 1733–1758 |
| Jean-Jacques Hermann | 1758–1761 |
| Claude Hermann | 1761–1793 | |
Ébersviller
see: Hombourg-Budange
Elzange
see: Rodemack
Faulquemont
| Nicolas Schweitzer | active in 1613 |
| Christophe Schwartz | 1618–1621 |
| Jean-Henri Lander | 1652–1682 |
| Jean-Henri Rhein | 1682–1695 |
| Léonard Rhein | 1695–1748 |
| Jean Rhein | 1748–1759 |
| Jean-Pierre Rhein | 1759–1793 | |
Fénétrange
see: Niederstinzel
Filstroff
| Jean-Nicolas Back | 1686–1714 |
| Jean-Nicolas Back | 1714–1728 |
| Jean-Philippe Mohr | 1728 |
| Christophe Parisot | 1728–1729 |
| André Heffinger | 1729–1742 |
| Jean-Pierre Back | 1742–1792 |
| Jean-Nicolas Rhein | 1792–1793 | |
Forbach
| Jean-Christophe Grauel | 1686–1692 |
| Jean-Henri Burckhard | 1692–1744 |
| Jean-Nicolas Burckhard | 1744–1776 |
| François-Martin Burckhard | 1776–1793 |
| Matthieu Burckhard | 1776–1793 | |
Freistroff
| Jean-Christophe Hopp | 1685–1735 |
| François Hopp | 1735–1738 |
| Jean Hopp | 1738–1758 |
| Jean-Pierre Hopp | 1758–1766 |
| Nicolas Schwind | 1766–1781 |
| Pierre Hopp | 1781–1793 | |
Gorze
| Jean-Jacques Valche | 1707–1714 |
| Jean-Pierre Urich | 1714–1740 |
| Jean-Nicolas Guerchoux | 1777–1793 | |
Grostenquin
| Jean-Jacques Cané | 1725–1753 |
| Oswald Back | 1753–1793 | |
Hérange
| Jean-Ulrich Vollmar | 1657–1690 |
| Jean-Nicolas Vollmar | 1690–1730 |
| Jean-Jacques Grosholtz | 1730–1735 |
| Jean-Georges Lander | 1766–1793 | |
Hombourg-Budange
| Jean-Jacques Lang | active in 1689 |
| Matthieu Back | 1738–1741 |
| Jean-Léonard Schwind | 1741–1744 |
| Jean-Pierre Spirckel | 1744–1773 |
| Pierre Schwind | 1773–1783 |
| Jean-Jacques Wolff | 1783–1793 | |
Insming
| Sébastien Parisot | 1635–1707 |
| Jean-Valentin Parisot | 1707–1731 |
| Jean-Jacques Bour | 1731–1765 |
| Jean-Thibaud Schweitzer | 1765–1769 |
| Jean-Jacques Bour | 1769–1781 |
| Valentin Grosholtz | 1781–1793 | |
Jallaucourt
Kédange-sur-Canner
Kirsch-lès-Sierck
| Pierre Wolff | 1695–1721 |
| Gaspard Wolff | 1721–1722 |
| Jean-Martin Wolff | 1722–1740 |
| Gaspard Wolff | 1740–1743 |
| François Wolff | 1743–1776 |
| Pierre Wolff | 1776–1793 | |
Lixheim
Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold
| Nicolas Schweitzer | active in 1613 |
| Antoine Grauel | 1717–1757 |
| Jean Grauel | 1757–1782 |
| Jean-Pierre Grauel | 1782–1786 |
| Jean Wolff | 1786–1787 |
| Jean-Nicolas Wolff | 1787–1793 | |
Lorquin
| Jean-Georges Burckhard | 1680–1692 |
| Dominique Burckhard | 1709–1734 |
| Michel Henry | 1734–1765 |
| Joseph Godot | 1765–1779 |
| Jean-Pierre Wolff | 1779–1793 | |
Louvigny
Lutzelbourg
| Jean-Jacques Grosholtz | 1680–1712 |
| Jean-Michel Grosholtz | 1712–1743 |
| Jean-Georges Grosholtz | 1743–1787 |
| Jean-Georges Grosholtz | 1787–1793 | |
Metz
| Louis Schweitzer | 1613–1653 |
| Matthieu Schweitzer | 1653–1680 |
| Nicolas Schweitzer | 1680–1684 |
| Jean-Jacques Burckhard | 1684–1693 |
| Jean-Baptiste Barré | 1693–1715 |
| Nicolas Barré | 1715–1730 |
| Jean-Nicolas Roch | 1730–1731 (last name also appears as Rauch) |
| Georges-Laurent Roch | 1731–1748 (last name also appears as Rauch) |
| Nicolas Barré | 1748–1779 |
| Nicolas-Oswald Barré | 1779–1801 |
| Nicolas Barré | 1801–1812 |
| Matthieu Spirckel | 1812–1833 |
| Pierre-Emmanuel Desfourneaux | 1833–1870 | |
Montenach
| Jean Spirckel | 1680–1695 |
| André Spirckel | 1695–1711 |
| Jean-Nicolas Roch | 1711–1720 (last name also appears as Rauch) |
| Georges-Laurent Roch | 1720–1721 (last name also appears as Rauch) |
| Jean-Pierre Spirckel | 1721–1759 |
| Nicolas Spirckel | 1759–1793 | |
Morhange
| Étienne Schwartz | 1610–1632 |
| Antoine Hermann | 1632–1670 |
| Jean-Jacques Grosholtz | 1670–1680 |
| Pierre Hermann | 1680–1682 |
| Claude Hermann | 1682–1733 |
| Jean Hermann | 1733–1758 |
| Jean-Jacques Hermann | 1758–1761 |
| Claude Hermann | 1761–1793 | |
Niederstinzel
| Jean-Nicolas Lander | 1681–1692 |
| Jean-Philippe Schild | 1736–1762 |
| Pierre Schild | 1762–1786 |
| Jacques Schild | 1785–1793 | |
Phalsbourg
Porcelette
| Gaspard Wolff | 1740–1748 |
| Pierre Wolff | 1748–1785 | |
Prévocourt
Puttelange-aux-Lacs
| Jean-Jacques Carpe | 1665–1686 |
| Jean-Valentin Igel | 1686–1702 |
| Jean-Bernard Bour | 1702–1734 |
| Théodore Bour | 1734–1752 |
| Jean-Georges Bour | 1752–1793 | |
Rodemack
| Jean-Henri Spirckel | 1687–1709 |
| Jean-Henri Spirckel | 1709–1718 |
| Jean-Bernard Spirckel | 1718–1724 |
| Jean-Théodore Burckhard | 1724–1754 |
| François Spirckel | 1754–1773 |
| Jean-Nicolas Spirckel | 1773–1793 | |
Saint-Avold
| Jean Spengler | active in 1615 |
| Christophe Lander | 1625–1632 |
| Jean-Nicolas Carpe | 1632–1652 |
| Jean-Gaspard Lander | 1652–1688 |
| Jean-Michel Lander | 1688–1719 |
| François-Gaspard Lander | 1719–1745 |
| Nicolas Lander | 1745–1785 |
| Christophe Back | 1785–1793 | |
Sarralbe
| Jean-Pierre Rhein | 1702–1724 |
| Jacques-Charles Rhein | 1724–1744 |
| Jean-Thibaud Schweitzer | 1765–1769 |
| Jean-Jacques Bour | 1769–1781 |
| Jean Grosholtz | 1781–1793 | |
Sarrebourg
| Guy Burckhard | 1685–1698 |
| Jean-Georges Burckhard | 1698–1717 |
| Georges-Frédéric Burck | 1739–1740 | |
Sarreguemines
| Nicolas Bour | 1666–1675 |
| Jean-Bernard Bour | 1675–1702 |
| Jean-Jacques Bour | 1702–1734 |
| Jean-Pierre Bour | 1734–1754 |
| François Rhein | 1754–1784 |
| Jean Rhein | 1784–1793 | |
Schorbach
| Jean-Henri Schild | 1662–1699 |
| Matthieu Schild | 1699–1751 |
| Georges-Frédéric Schild | 1751–1756 |
| Jean-Jacques Schild | 1756–1775 |
| Jean-Henri Schild | 1775–1793 | |
Sierck-les-Bains
Thionville
| Nicolas Geiler | c. 1680 |
| Jean-Henri Spirckel | 1687–1709 |
| Jean-Pierre Dillenburg | 1709–1738 |
| Jean-Pierre Dillenburg | 1738–1748 |
| Jean-Pierre Dillenburg | 1748–1763 |
| Jean-Baptiste Dillenburg | 1748–1789 |
| Jean-Baptiste Spirckel | 1789–1793 | |
Tincry
Tragny
Vatimont
Vic-sur-Seille
| Humbert Caille | active in 1633 |
| Rémi Laurent | 1663–1680 |
| Pierre Hermann | 1680–1688 |
| Claude Parisot | 1688–1734 |
| Jean Parisot | 1734–1777 |
| Claude Parisot | 1777–1793 | |
Vosges (88)
Bruyères
| François-Joseph Hiezely | 1719–1736 |
| Jacques Heidenreich | 1736–1761 | |
Charmes
| Charles Magnard | 1702–1733 |
| Jean-Charles Chrétien | 1746–1752 |
| Jean-Joseph Hiezely | 1752–1754 |
| Léopold Chrétien | 1754–1786 |
| Antoine Hiezely | 1786–1793 | |
Châtel-sur-Moselle
Châtenois
| Jean Chrétien | 1752–1756 |
| Claude-François Chrétien | 1756–1793 | |
Darney
| Jean-Pierre Courtois | 1737–1769 |
| Pierre-Fidèle Chrétien | 1769–1793 | |
Dompaire
| Jean-Nicolas Laury | 1709–1730 |
| Didier Chapelain | 1730–1752 |
| Jean-Nicolas Chapelain | 1752–1757 |
| Antoine-François Fixard | 1757–1774 |
| Jean-François Fixard | 1774–1788 | |
Épinal
| Jean Bontemps | active in 1601 |
| Nicolas Guillemette de Fontenay | 1601–1607 |
| Martin | active in 1656 |
| Jean Pierson | 1672–1686 |
| Jean-Nicolas Laury | 1686–1726 |
| Jean-Nicolas Laury | 1726–1734 |
| Matthieu Wees | 1734–1753 |
| Jean-Georges Anthès | 1753–1762 |
| François Wees | 1762–1775 |
| Joseph Wees | 1775–1790 |
| François Spirckel | 1790–1797 |
| François Wolff | 1797–1803 |
| Jean-Nicolas Chapelain | 1803–1817 |
| Antoine Chapelain | 1817–1818 |
| Jean-Nicolas Cané | 1818–1840 |
| Conrad Braun | 1840–1849 | |
La Neuveville-sous-Châtenois
Mirecourt
| Jean-Dominique Chrétien | 1700–1736 |
| François Chrétien | 1736–1754 |
| Jean-Nicolas Chrétien | 1776–1798 | |
Neufchâteau
| Antoine Chrétien | c. 1730–1745 |
| Henri Chrétien | 1745–1755 |
| Claude-Michel Chrétien | 1755–1756/57 |
| Oswald Rhein | 1756/57–1773 |
| Jean-Nicolas Wolff | 1770–1793 | |
Rambervillers
| François-Joseph Hiezely | active in 1719 |
| Georges Chapelain | 1746–1769 |
| Jean-Michel Hiezely | 1769–1770 |
| Jean-Georges Hiezely | 1770–1777 | |
Remiremont
Saint-Dié
| Nicolas Maurisat | active in 1621 |
| Jean-Michel Burckhard | 1701–1712 |
| Georges-Adolphe Heidenreich | 1712–1737 |
| Jean-Michel Hiezely | active in 1757 |
| Claude Hiezely | 1774–1793 | |
Saint-Nabord
Midi-Pyrénées
Ariège (09)
Foix
| François Cabanié | 1793–1802 |
| Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Dupuy | 1802–1830 |
| Joseph Beaufaye | 1830–1849 |
| François-Nicolas Beaufaye | 1849–1853 | |
Aveyron (12)
Rodez
| Pradel | c. 1685 |
| Jean-Louis Daydé | 1780–1782 |
| Jean Crossy | 1782–1793 |
| François Berger | 1793–1797 |
| Jean Crossy | 1797–1824 |
| Guy Le Moalic | 1824–1828 |
| Pierre-Victor Rives | 1828–1853 | |
Haute-Garonne (31)
Toulouse
| Jean Barrot | 1659–1666 |
| Jean Touzet | active in 1666 |
| Mathieu Bourideu | –1757 (his last name also appears as Mathieu Bouirou; sources also say 1759–1763) |
| Jean Daizes | active in 1768 (some sources say 1757–1769) |
| Antoine Varennes | 1769/70–1812 (brother to Jean Varennes in Cahors) |
| Marcelin Berthoumier | 1812–1817 |
| Jean-François Guerchoux | 1817–1818 |
| Laurent Guerchoux | 1818–1837 |
| Henri-Matthieu Guerchoux | 1837–1838 | |
Gers (32)
Auch
| Jean Palaso | 1574–1575 |
| Pierre André | active in 1623 |
| Jean Dupin | |
| Pierre Labailhe | active in 1650 |
| Jean Cestarès | 1662–1670 |
| Jean Dumas | 1673–1695 |
| Jean Bruel | 1699–1719 |
| Guillaume Bruel | 1719–1747 |
| Bertrand Faroux | 1752–1777 (name also given as Féraut) |
| Jean Daizes | 1781–1788 |
| Jean Rascat | 1788–1790 |
| ? Goutte | 1790–1792 |
| Matthieu Benoist | 1792–1793 |
| Jean Rascat | 1793–1798 |
| Joseph Laporte | 1798–1822 |
| Jean Prosset | 1822–1849 | |
Lectoure
Lot (46)
Cahors
| Jean Varennes | 1761–1809 (brother to Antoine Varennes in Toulouse) |
| Romain Labat | 1809–1810 |
| Armand Varennes | 1810–1818 |
| Laurent-Désiré Desmorest | 1827–1849 | |
Hautes-Pyrénées (65)
Tarbes
| Jean-Louis Daydé | active in 1792 |
| Charles Lacaille | 1792–1794 |
| François Spirckel | 1794–1802 |
| Jean Rascat | 1802–1818 |
| Jean Grosholtz | 1818–1823 |
| Louis Grosholtz | 1823–1843 |
| Jean-Simon Grosholtz | 1843–1844 |
| Vincent Bornacini | 1844–1848 | |
Tarn (81)
Albi
| Jean Matthieu | 1598–1599 |
| Sylvain | |
| Étienne Étienne | 1807–1815 |
| Marcelin Rigal | 1815–1824 |
| Jean-Pierre Étienne | 1824–1831 |
| Pierre Miraucourt | 1831–1849 | |
Tarn-et-Garonne (82)
Montauban
| Armand Varennes | 1809–1818 |
| Marcelin Berthoumier | 1818–1824 |
| Marcelin Rigal | 1824–1837 |
| Jean-François Guerchoux | 1837–1849 | |
Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Nord (59)
Cambrai
| Escluve | active in 1368 |
| Robert Fayet | active in 1595 |
| Nicolas Delannois | active in 1611 |
| Pierre de Groville | 1627–1629 |
| Guillaume-Joseph Vermeille | –1750 |
| François Damonville | active in 1750 |
| Pierre-François Vermeille | 1790–1793 | |
Douai
| Jean de Le Porte | active in 1459 |
| Jacques Galoppin | active in 1679 |
| François-Joseph Demettre | 1795–1825 |
| Louis Demettre | 1825–1828 |
| Pierre Demettre | 1828–1835 |
| François Demettre | 1835–1870 | |
Lille
| Pierre Vermeille | active in 1766 |
| Charles-André-Joseph Demettre | 1766–1773 |
| Pierre-Joseph Foyez | 1773–1792 | |
Maubeuge
Valenciennes
| Jean Boitquin | active in 1679 |
| Julien-Joseph Vermeille | 1780–1801 |
| Pierre-Joseph Vermeille | 1801–1802 | |
Pas-de-Calais (62)
Arras
| Henri Cousin | |
| Jean-Baptiste Outredebanque | 1753–1780 |
| Pierre Outredebanque | 1780–1795 | |
Boulogne
| Jean-André-Joseph Tanné | 1731–1766 |
| Charles-André-Joseph Demettre | 1766–1773 |
| François Lacaille | 1773–1793 | |
Calais
| Jean-André-Joseph Tanné | 1729–1766 |
| Charles-André-Joseph Demettre | 1766–1773 |
| François Lacaille | 1773–1793 | |
Saint-Omer
Pays de la Loire
Loire-Atlantique (44; before 1957 Loire Inférieure)
Nantes
| Pierre Poupin | 1574–1575 |
| Charles Davy | active in 1626 |
| Macé Bouëtard | active in 1673 |
| Jean Verdier | 1673–1686 |
| Laurent Leroy | 1686–1688 |
| Pierre Judic | 1688–1701 (name also rendered as Jeudy) |
| François Durand | 1701–1705 |
| Pierre Chaumont | 1705–1725 |
| Étienne Ganié | 1725–1735 |
| Jacques Bouëtard | 1735–1738 |
| Pierre Chaumont | 1738–1755 |
| Étienne Ganié | 1755–1757 |
| Jacques-Victor Ganié | 1757–1784 |
| Charles-François Férey | 1784–1789 |
| Michel Sénéchal | 1789–1794 |
| François-Joseph Férey | 1794–1798 |
| François Lacaille | 1798–1805 |
| François Lacaille | 1805–1823 |
| Jacques-Auguste Ganié | 1823–1845 |
| Jacques-Henri Ganié | 1845–1849 | |
Maine-et-Loire (49)
Angers
| Adam Lesné | active in 1546 |
| Nicolas Cousnier | 1615–1618 |
| Jacques Cousnier | 1618–1622 |
| Pierre Roussière | 1622–1625 |
| Pierre Briand | 1670–1677 |
| Julien Beudin | 1677–1681 |
| Pierre Verdier | 1681–1687 |
| Jean Morin | 1687–1689 |
| Laurent Leroy | 1689–1709 |
| François Verdier | en 1709–1717 |
| Jean Petitjean | 1717–1720 |
| Nicolas Férey | 1720–1725 |
| François Férey | 1725–1736 |
| Pierre Charpentier | 1736–1753 |
| Jean-Baptiste Charpentier | 1753–1766 |
| Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Charpentier | 1753–1758 |
| Jean-Baptiste Charpentier | 1766–1771 |
| Jacques Filliaux | 1771–1785 |
| Jacques-Joseph-Hyacinthe Filliaux | 1785–1808 |
| Pierre-Jacques Ganié | 1808–1829 |
| Charles-Gabriel Jouenne | 1829–1832 |
| Pierre-Jacques Ganié | 1832–1848 |
| Stanislas Ganié | 1848–1870 | |
Saumur
| André Carouault | activ in 1634 |
| Jean Verdier | 1674–1687 |
| Etienne Robert | 1712–1727 |
| Pierre Asselin | 1727–1731 |
| Etienne Robert | 1731–1735 |
| Yves Robert | 1735–1759 |
| Antoine Dupuy | 1759–1767 |
| Antoine Dupuy | 1767–1785 |
| Louis-Jean Dupuy | 1785–1793 | |
Mayenne (53)
Château-Gontier
| René Chaumont | active in 1686 |
| Martin Dupuy | 1717–1722 |
| Jacques Dupuy | 1722–1742 |
| Jacques-François Dupuy | 1742–1759 |
| Pierre Dupuy | 1759–1783 |
| Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Dupuy | 1783–1793 | |
Laval
| François Chaumont | 1680–1687 |
| Jacques Bouëtard | 1720–1730 |
| Jacques-Etienne Bouëtard | 1730–1740 |
| Pierre Martin | 1740–1756 |
| Jacques Durand | 1756–1782 |
| Pierre Martin | 1782–1785 |
| Jacques-François Durand | 1785–1813 |
| Henri Bickler | 1813–1815 |
| Jacques-Joseph Durand | 1815−1819 (executed for homicide) |
| Pierre-Michel Durand | 1819–1823 |
| François-Hippolyte Desmorest | 1823–1843 |
| Jean-Jacques Ehrardt | 1843–1849 | |
Sarthe (72)
La Flèche
| Jean Billon | active in 1686 | |
Le Mans
| Jean Benoist | 1698–1720 |
| Joseph Filliaux | 1720–1723 |
| Pierre Charpentier | 1723–1733 |
| Joseph Charpentier | 1733–1750 |
| Louis-Jacques Filliaux | 1750–1767 |
| Nicolas-Louis Jouenne | 1750–1767 |
| Nicolas-Louis Jouenne | 1767–1784 |
| Charles Jouenne | 1767–1822 |
| Isidore-Joseph Vermeille | 1822–1827 |
| Romain Labat | 1827–1846 |
| Pierre Marc | 1846–1849 | |
Vendée (85)
Fontenay-le-Comte
| Jean Fraigneau | |
| François Fraigneau | 1710–1728 |
| Michel Clément | 1728–1745 |
| Pierre-Victor Asselin | 1745–1755 |
| Joseph Asselin | 1755–1778 |
| Pierre Asselin | 1778–1802 |
| André-Thomas Férey | 1802 |
| Nicolas-Louis Jouenne | 1802–1805 |
| Pierre Wolff | 1805–1824 |
| Pierre Wolff | 1824–1849 | |
Picardie
Aisne (02)
Laon
| Mathurin Porrès | active round 1590 |
| Mathurin Damet | 1595–1617 |
| François Roussel | 1660–1664 |
| Louis Desmorest | 1664–1710 |
| Nicolas Desmorest | 1710–1761 |
| François-Joseph Desmorest | 1761–1764 |
| Jean-LouisDesmorest | 1764–1812 |
| Isidore-Joseph Vermeille | 1812–1823 |
| Jean-François-Philibert Robineau | 1823–1845 |
| Frédéric-Henri-Auguste Robineau | 1845–1849 | |
Soissons
| Jean Gressier | 1680–1705 |
| André Gressier | 1705–1726 |
| François Desmorest | 1726–1750 |
| Nicolas-François Desmorest | 1750–1761 |
| Denis-François Hérisson | 1761–1762 |
| Charles-René Zelle | 1762–1776 |
| Charles-Henri-Martin Zelle | 1776–1792 | |
Oise (60)
Beauvais
| Robert Berger | 1749–1763 |
| Jacques-Robert Berger | 1763–1784 |
| François-Robert-Gabriel Berger | 1784–1798 |
| Jean-François-Philibert Robineau | 1798–1799 |
| François-Robert-Gabriel Berger | 1799–1805 |
| Robert-Gabriel Berger | 1805–1813 |
| Charles-Henri-Constant Desmorest | 1813–1849 | |
Clermont
(former Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, also called Clermont-en-France)
Compiègne
| Pierre Clavière | active in 1627 |
| Cyprien Levert | 1660–1670 |
| Jacques Hérisson | 1670–1680 |
| Guillaume Hérisson | 1680–1683 |
| Jacques Dollé | 1683–1717 |
| Louis-André Desmorest | 1717–1719 |
| Jacques Dollé | 1719–1749 |
| Nicolas Dollé | 1749–1762 |
| Louis-Nicolas Dollé | 1762–1793 | |
Crépy-en-Valois
| Pierre Hérisson | active in 1629 |
| Louis Berger | 1700–1713 |
| Jacques Dollé | 1713–1717 |
| Robert Berger | 1717–1763 |
| Jacques-Robert Berger | 1763–1784 |
| François-Robert-Gabriel Berger | 1784–1793 | |
Noyon
| Féry Leblon | active in 1617 |
| François-Joseph Desmorest | 1743–1793 | |
Senlis
| Claude Harrie | active in 1544 |
| Jean Taffin | active in 1571 |
| Philippe Hérisson | 1622–1662 |
| Claude Hérisson | 1662–1667 |
| Philippe Hérisson | 1667–1673 |
| Jacques Hérisson | 1673–1680 |
| François-Cyprien Hérisson | 1680–1727 |
| Nicolas Hérisson | 1727–1742 |
| François-Nicolas Hérisson | 1742–1755 |
| Denis-François Hérisson | 1755–1761 |
| Nicolas-François Desmorest | 1761–1784 |
| Louis-Auguste-Nicolas Desmorest | 1784–1793 |
| Pierre-Nicolas-François Desmorest | 1784–1793 | |
Somme (80)
Amiens
| Pierre Phélippart | active in 1463 |
| Haquin de Bergue | active in 1468 |
| Jean de Tournai | active in 1516 |
| Louis-Charles Hébert | 1731–1760 |
| Joseph Foyez | 1760–1767 |
| Pierre-François Vermeille | 1767–1795 |
| François Étienne | 1795 |
| Jean Boursier | 1795–1796 |
| Jacques-Bonaventure Collet de Charmoy | 1796–1816 |
| Amand-Constant Vermeille | 1816–1837 (Armand-Constant ?) |
| Amand Vermeille | 1837–1852 (Armand ?) |
| Jacques-Henri Ganié | 1852−1853 |
| Nicolas Roch | 1853–1870 (his last name seometimes appears as Rauch; after 1870, see: Monsieur de Paris) | |
Poitou-Charentes
Charente (16)
Angoulême
| Jean Cestarès | 1656–1682 |
| Guy Robert | 1684–1698 |
| Robert Guitton | 1700–1702 |
| Joseph Senigotte | 1728–1740 |
| Jean Jacquinet | 1740–1742 |
| Jacques Berger | 1744–1758 |
| Jean Brunet | 1758–1760 |
| (interim executioners between 1760 and 1789) |
| Jean Roch | 1789–1802 (his last name also appears as Rauch) |
| Pierre Pradel | 1802–1816 |
| François-Xavier Rhein | 1816–1827 |
| Matthieu-Isidore Rhein | 1827–1840 |
| Claude Roch | 1840–1849 (his last name also appears as Rauch) | |
Charente-Maritime (17)
La Rochelle
| Hilaire Camyon | round 1610 |
| Jacques Lafargue | 1663–1680 |
| Jacques Lafargue | 1694–1702 |
| Pierre Lafargue | 1702–1713 |
| Pierre Combaud | 1713–1719 |
| Pierre Landeau | 1719–1723 |
| Victor Landeau | 1723–1726 |
| Christophe Benoist | 1726–1747 |
| Jean Benoist | 1747–1749 |
| François Férey | 1749–1757 |
| Joseph Férey | 1757–1774 |
| François-Charles-Gabriel Férey | 1757–1769 |
| Joseph Lacaille | 1774–1789 |
| Jacques-Bonaventure Collet de Charmoy | 1789–1795 | |
Rochefort
Saintes
| Jean Benoist | 1725–1728 |
| Pierre Benoist | 1728–1750 |
| Maixent-Mathurin Ayrault | 1750–1763 |
| Christophe Ayrault | 1763–1802 |
| François Spirckel | 1802–1825 |
| Matthieu Spirckel | 1825–1849 | |
Deux-Sèvres (79)
Niort
| Pierre Landeau | 1695–1723 |
| Victor Landeau | 1723–1731 |
| Pierre Asselin | 1731–1748 |
| Joseph Asselin | 1748–1756 |
| Augustin Asselin | 1756–1781 |
| Augustin-Joseph Asselin | 1781–1813 |
| Augustin-André Asselin | 1813–1823 |
| Louis-Augustin-Désiré Asselin | 1823–1849 | |
Saint-Maixent-l'École
| Réneteau | active in 1667 |
| Chaussonnier | active in 1683 |
| Mathurin Ayrault | 1705–1722 |
| Louis Ayrault | 1722–1736 |
| Mathurin Ayrault | 1736–1762 |
| Clément Ayrault | 1762–1785 |
| Maixent-Mathurin Ayrault | 1762–1763 | |
Thouars
| Jean-Jacques Fraigneau | 1710–1722 |
| Martin Dupuy | 1732–1745 |
| Louis Duchesne | 1745–1765 |
| Jean-Martin Dupuy | 1765–1793 | |
Vienne (86)
Civray
Loudun
| Duchesne | active in 1634 |
| Michel Clément | 1718–1720 |
| Louis Ayrault | 1720–1725 |
| Louis Duchesne | 1725–1758 |
| François Duchesne | 1758–1787 |
| François Berger | 1787–1793 | |
Poitiers
| Jean Verdier | active in 1626 |
| Michel Verdier | active in 1670 |
| Étienne Renéteau | 1687–1707 |
| Mathurin Pinocheau | 1707–1709 |
| Mathurin Pinocheau | 1709–1721 |
| Guy Renéteau | 1721–1727 |
| François Verdier | 1727–1764 |
| François Verdier | 1764–1772 |
| Pierre-François Verdier | 1764–1796 |
| Louis-Nicolas Dollé | 1796–1805 |
| Joseph-Martin Benoist | 1805–1809 |
| Pierre-Nicolas Berthelot | 1809–1827 |
| Nicolas Wolff | 1827–1831 |
| Matthieu Wolff | 1831–1846 |
| Raymond Peyrussan | 1846–1854 |
| Charles-André Wolff | 1854–1870 | |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04)
Digne
| Pierre Back | 1793–1794 |
| Pierre Cané | 1794 |
| François Montagne | 1794–1795 |
| Jean-Pierre Thiéry | 1795–1816 |
| François-Xavier Reine | 1816–1817 (his name comes also written as Rhein) |
| Alexandre-Victor Jouenne | 1817–1849 | |
Hautes-Alpes (05)
Gap
| Nicolas Viard | 1793–1794 |
| Antoine Roch | 1794–1797 (his last name also appears as Rauch) |
| François Roch | 1797–1805 (his last name also appears as Rauch) |
| Laurent Roch | 1805–1826 (his last name also appears as Rauch) |
| Hyacinthe Roch | 1826–1836 (his last name also appears as Rauch) |
| ? Schlick | 1836–1841 |
| Victor Roch | 1841–1849 (his last name also appears as Rauch) | |
Alpes-Maritimes (06)
Nice
| Joseph-François Desmorest | 1798–1804 |
| François Berger | 1804–1805 |
| Joseph-François Desmorest | 1805–1814 (the same like from 1798 to 1804) |
|
Bouches-du-Rhône (13)
Aix-en-Provence
| Laurent-Martin Coquelin | 1802–1809 |
| Pierre-Gabriel Giraudon | 1809–1810 |
| Louis Alexis | 1810–1811 |
| Romain Labat | 1811–1814 |
| François-Joseph Férey | 1814–1819 |
| Bénigne-Nicolas-François Brochard | 1819–1820 |
| Nicolas Burckhard | 1820–1834 (his last name is also written Bourgard) |
| Pierre-Thermidor Vermeille | 1834–1842 |
| Henri-Charles Desmorest | 1842–1853 |
| Laurent-Désiré Desmorest | 1853–1860 |
| Vincent Bornacini | 1860–1870 | |
Var (83)
Draguignan
| Joseph Chaylan | 1799–1802 |
| Jean Wolff | 1802 |
| Matthieu Burckhard | 1802–1814 |
| François-Joseph Heidenreich | 1814–1827 |
| 1827–1835 |
| Nicolas Chtarque | 1835–1841 |
| Laurent Bornacini | 1841–1848 |
| Vincent Bornacini | 1848–1849 | |
Vaucluse (84)
Carpentras
| François Berger | 1797–1799 |
| Pierre-Nicolas-François Desmorest | 1799–1830 |
| Adrien-Nicolas-Joseph Cané | 1830–1834 |
| Antoine Garoux | 1834–1838 |
| Jean-Jacques Erhardt | 1838–1843 |
| Louis-Henri Desmorest | 1843–1849 | |
Rhône-Alpes
Ain (01)
Bourg-en-Bresse
| François Lauret | active in 1738 |
| Geniès Armilhon | active round 1765 (former executioner of Clermont-Ferrand) |
| Nicolas Montagne | active in 1766 |
| Désiré Giboz | active in 1792 |
| Louis Ripert | 1792–1793 |
| Claude-Antoine Chrétien | 1793–1794 (interim; executioner of Chalon) |
| Charles Frey | 1794–1795 |
| François Vially | 1795–1796 |
| Pierre Ripert | 1796–1797 (interim; executioner of Lyon) |
| Jean-Pierre Reine | 1797–1805 (his name also appears as Rhein) |
| Paul Martinet | 1805–1808 |
| Jean Guillamet | 1808–1845 |
| Nicolas Grosholtz | 1845–1849 | |
Ardèche (07)
Privas
| Henri Labille | 1793–1794 |
| Pierre-Nicolas-François Desmorest | 1794–1795 |
| Jean-Pierre Bickler | 1798–1811 (his last name also appears as Pickler) |
| Nicolas-Pierre Hermann | 1811–1832 |
| Pierre Roch | 1832–1836 (his last name also appears as Rauch) |
| Léonard Richim | 1836–1849 | |
Drôme (26)
Valence
| Laurent-Marin Coquelin | 1792–1793 |
| Jean-Pierre Combe | 1793–1805 |
| Jean-Baptiste-Oswald Cané | 1805–1822 |
| Jean-François Cané | 1822–1835 |
| François Wolff | 1835–1844 |
| Hyacinthe Roch | 1844–1849 (his last name also appears as Rauch sometimes) | |
Isère (38)
Grenoble
| Antoine de Loches | active in 1519 |
| Guillaume de Leison | active in 1553 |
| Vincent Brun | active in 1557 |
| Michel Perrin | active in 1562 |
| ? Lerbras | |
| ? Rozeau | |
| ? Palevin | |
| Michaud-Pierron | |
| Jean Brocard | active in 1611 |
| Jean Janon | active in 1670 |
| Jean Eynard | active in 1674 |
| Jean Janon | active in 1691 |
| Jacques Joubert | 1702–1720 |
| François Ripert | 1725–1782 |
| Jean Ripert | 1782–1790 |
| Pierre Ripert | 1790–1793 |
| François Pache | active in 1793 |
| Jean-Baptiste Desmorest | 1794–1808 |
| Pierre-Joseph Vermeille | 1808–1820 |
| Jean Guerchoux | 1820–1835 |
| 1835–1847 |
| Jean-Pierre Piot | 1847–1862 | |
Loire (42)
Montbrison
| Louis-Richard Faroux | 1734–1760 |
| Jean Faroux | 1760–1793 |
| Jean Faroux | 1795–1799 |
| Jean-Pierre Roch | en 1799–1801 (last name also given as Rauch) |
| Louis Faroux | 1801–1813 |
| Joseph-François Desmorest | 1813–1823 |
| Nicolas Roch | 1823–1849 (last name also given as Rauch) | |
Rhône (69)
Lyon
| Jean Jacquenot | 1525–1526; active again in 1529 ? (his last name also appears written as Jacquemot) |
| Antoine Benoît | –1723 (Benoit and his wife have been murdered in the night from May 18 to 19, 1723) |
| Jean Lavoué | 1723–1735 |
| Marguerite-Julienne Le Paistour | 1745–1749 (sacked after involving in a mayor robbery; married and became a housewife in Cancale) |
| Jean Ripert | 1792–1794 |
| Claude-Antoine Chrétien | 1804–1842 |
| Henri Lac | 1853–1870 | |
Savoie (73)
Chambéry
| Laurent Rhein | 1794–1810 |
| Pierre Rhein | 1810–1815 |
| Jean-Emile Grosholtz | 1860–1866 |
| Jules Cané | 1866–1868 (not 100% confirmed, but most likely) | |
Haute-Savoie (74)
| no executioner known so far | |
Monsieur de Paris: The Executioners of the French Republic
In 1870 the Republic of France abolished all local executioners and named the executioner of Paris, Jean-François Heidenreich, Exécuteur des Arrêts Criminels, which became France's official description of the executioner's occupation. From then on there would be only one executioner to carry out death sentences for all of France except Corsica which would follow in 1875. As the Republic's executioner was required to live in Paris, people soon started to refer to him as "Monsieur de Paris", "The Mister from Paris". At the occasion of his nomination, Heidenreich could choose four among France's former local executioners to be his aides.
| 1871–1872 |
| Nicolas Roch | 1872–1879 |
| Louis Deibler | 1879–1898 |
| 1899–1939 |
| 1939–1951 |
| 1951–1976 |
| 1976–1981 | |
Les Départements Outre-Mer
Saint-Martin (978)
Les Territoires Outre-Mer
Île de Clipperton (989)
French Guiana
Monsieur de Cayenne: The Executioners of the French Republic
Cayenne Central Prison never used its own guillotine. All death sentences of convicts and locally condemned prisoners were conducted at Saint-Laurent.
Monsieur de Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni|Saint-Laurent: The Executioners of the Bagne
All executioners of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni were Bagne inmates themselves.
| Rasséguier | 1860(?)–1889 |
| Louis-Auguste Chaumet | 1889–1898/1900 |
| Isidore Hespel | 1898–1921 (nicknamed "Le Chacal" by the other inmates) |
| Bonnefoy | 1921–1923 (inmate nr. 42164; nicknamed "Charlot" by the other inmates) |
| Louis Ladurelle | 1923–1937 (his name also appears as Ladurel) |
| Clouziot | 1937–1943 (nicknamed "Mouche à Bœuf" by the other inmates) | |
Germany
Local Executioners (1276 to between 1848 and 1871)
Augsburg
| (name not found out yet) | 13th century (The first one ever nominated as a professional executioner in Germany; that was in 1276, and for the first time – simultaneously – an executioner's job description was published) |
| Veit Stolz | 1538–1613 |
| Joas Lemler | ~1567 |
| Hans Deibler | 1572–1594 (Before 1561–1571 in Memmingen; ancestor to the French Republic's- executioners Louis Deibler and Anatole Deibler) |
| Michael Deibler | 1594–1621 |
| Dietrich Metz | 1621–1624? |
| Georg Leichumb | 1624–1629 |
| Max Philipp Hartmann | 1677–1679 |
| Johann Adam Hartmann | 1686–1706 |
| Johann Jakob Scheller | ~1705 |
| ? Kuisle | –1714 |
| Franz Trenckhler | 1714–1723 |
| Johann Georg Tränckler | 1723–1730 |
| Johann Adam Scheller | ~1730 |
| Johann Georg Tränckhler | ~1768 |
| Johann Pflügler | –1789 (suicided 1790) |
|
Berlin
| Benedictus Barsch | 1535–1560 |
| Hermann Rüter, or Hartmann Rüter | 1560–1571 |
| Caspar Spiegel | 1576–1586 |
| Martin Heintze | 1586-? |
| Hans Lissen | 1631–1636 |
| Gottfried Zürek | 1636–1639 |
| ? Gebhart | 1639–1653 |
| Hans Rudolff | 1647–1655 |
| Gottfried ? | 1655 |
| Caspar Götze | 1655–1669 |
| Hans Müller | 1669–1680 |
| Heinrich Müller | 1681–1690 |
| Martin Koblentz | 1690–1702 |
| Hans Michael Eichfeld | 1702–1705 |
| Augustin Konrad Walter | 1705–1710 |
| Hans Michael Eichfeld | 1710–1714 |
| Christopf Stoff | 1714 |
| ? Neumann | 1714–1719 |
| Georg Wilhelm | 1720–1728 |
| Martin Hennings | 1729–1731 |
| Martin Weydemann | ~1731 |
| Gottfried Weydemann | 1745–1748 |
| Jakob Kratzel | 1748–1752 |
| ? Meyer | 1752–1769 |
| Johann Daniel Brandt | 1769–1808 |
| Christian Friedrich Krafft | 1808–1819 |
| August Hellriegel | 1818–1834 |
| ? Hormuth | 1834 |
| A. W. Krafft | 1834–1860 |
|
Bernau
| Johann Christoph Jeck | 1729–1730 |
| ? Michaelis | 1730–1740 |
| Martin Gottlieb Koch | 1740–1747 |
| Andreas Kleine | 1747–17?? |
| August Heinrich Kaufmann | 1780–1802 |
| Carl Friedrich Kaufmann | 1802–1836? |
| Wilhelm Weber | 1836–1850 |
| Carl Altmann | 1853–1874? |
| Friedrich Schmidt | 1874–1877 |
| Ferdinand August Zimmermann | 1877-? |
|
Braunschweig
| Claus Frölich | ~1652 |
| Christoph Pfeffer | ~1724 |
| ? Funcke | ~1818 |
|
Bremen
| ? Adelarius | –1539 |
| Christian Schwarz | 1827–1860 (Unknown when he passed from Bremen City's local executioner to Bremen's state executioner; from 1843 to 1859 he also was Hannover's state executioner) |
| Johann Christian Göppel | 1738- |
|
Donauwörth
| Marx Deibler (also Max Deubler) | ~1625 |
| Jakob Bickle | ~1640 |
| Johann Michael Kober | ~1720 |
| Johann Hörmann | 1802–1833 |
|
Dresden
| Melchior Wahl "von Dreißigacker" | 1630–1647 |
| Melchior Vogel | –1695 |
|
Eger
| ? Peter | ~1486 |
| ? Philipp | ~1581 |
| ? Huß | –1781 |
| Karl Huß | 1781–1827 |
|
Frankfurt am Main
| Schelm von Bergen | mid-12th century (Most likely not a professional executioner) |
| ? Hans | ~1370 |
| ? Friedrich | ~1446 |
| Jonas Fischer | –1690 | |
Freiberg/Sachsen
| Christian Naumann | ~1690 | Johann David Naumann | ~1670 | - 1729 | |
Günzburg
| Bartholomaeus Abrel | –1652 |
| Berthin Aberel | –1659 |
| Barthlome Abrell | –1707 |
| Johann Michael Klingensteiner | 1707–17?? |
| Johann Klingensteiner | –1765 (Günzburg) |
| Josef Anton Klingensteiner | ~1775 (Günzburg) |
|
Haigerloch
| Steinmeyer family | ~1750 |
| Jakob Steinmeyer | 1764– |
| Xaver Steinmeyer | ~1779 |
|
Hamburg
| ? Vicko | 1372–1384 |
| Peter Funcke | 1384–1402? |
| ? Rosenfeld | ~1402 |
| Johann Hagedorn | 1471- |
| Michael Dannenberg | –1485 |
| Klaus Flügge | 1485–1488 |
| Hinrich Penningk | 1521–1528 |
| Claus Rose | 1528–1547 |
| Heinrich Wendeborn | 1547–1576 |
| Jürgen Böhme | 1576–1612 |
| Max Graf | 1612–1621 |
| Valtin Matz | 1622–1639 |
| ? Gebhart (or Gevert?) | 1639-? |
| Ismael Asthusen I. | 1653–1664 |
| Berthold Deutschmann | 1664–1674 |
| Jakob Stoeff | 1674–1685 |
| Ismael Asthusen II. | 1685–1703 |
| Ismael Asthusen III. | 1703–1722 |
| Franz Wilhelm Hennings I. | 1722-? (1735?) |
| Ismael Asthusen IV. | 17?? (1735?) –1767 |
| Franz Wilhelm Hennigs II. | 1767–1773 |
| Franz Wilhelm Hennings III. | 1773 |
| Franz Wilhelm Hennings IV. | 1773–1790 |
| Franz Wilhelm Hennings V. | 1790–1822 |
| Franz Wilhelm Hennings VI. | 1822–1830 |
| Raphael Georg Voigt | 1830–1852 |
|
Hannover
| ~1500 |
| Johann Hartmann | 1818–1831 |
| Johann Voß | –1843 |
| Christian Schwarz | 1843–1857 (from 1857 to 1859 Hannover's state executioner; local executioner in Bremen from 1827 to 1860) |
|
Hof
| Heinrich Schmidt | 16th century (father of Nuremberg's Franz Schmidt) | |
Husum
| Albert Möller | –1630 |
| Philipp Möller | –1630 |
|
Kaufbeuren
| Hans Abril | ~1659 |
| Hans Conrad Näher | –1666 |
| Christoph Seitz | ~1685 |
| Conrad Fuchs | ~1705 |
| Johannes Seitz | ~1715 |
| Mattheß Fux | ~1720 |
| Johann Seitz | ~1732 |
| Johann Michael Weydenkeller | 1732–1757 |
| Johann Georg Fux | 1773- |
|
Kempten
| Georg Kuisl | ~1665 |
| Andreas Klingensteiner | ~1701 (Kempten) |
| ? Deigentesch | –1708 (Kempten) |
|
Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
See also: Kaliningrad.
Landeck, Silesia (now in Poland
See also: Silesia.
Leipzig
| Heyland family | 1600- |
| Christoph Hain | ~1621 |
| Christoph Heintze | –1695 |
| Polster family | 1695- |
|
Markt Oberdorf
| Hans Enderes Abrel | ~1628 |
| Andreas Kuisl | 1655–1678 |
| Wilhelm Kober | –1714 |
| Nikolaus Kober | 1714–1763 |
| Wilm Kober | 1763–1786 |
| Baptist Trinkler | ~1786 |
|
Memmingen
| Hans Leycham | 1553–1561? |
| Hans Deibler | 1561–1571 (After 1571 til 1594 in Augsburg; ancestor to the French Republic's executioners Louis Deibler and Anatole Deibler) |
| Jakob Deibler (also Teübler) | 1571- |
| Bartholme Deibler (also Teubler) | 1607- |
| Matheus Fux (also Matheiß Fux) | 1656–1696 |
| Conrad Fux | ~1696 |
| Johann Fuchs | –1720 |
| Johann Conrad Nejer | ~1720 |
| ? Widemann | 1743–1767 |
| Heinrich Widmann | ~1772 |
| Jakob Bickel | ~1773 |
| Johann Michael Widemann | ~1777 |
| Heinrich Widmann | ~1778 |
|
Munich
| Martin ? | ~1760 |
| Martin Hörmann | 1813–1841 (Munich) |
| Lorenz Scheller | 1829–1854 (after 1854, Scheller was Bavaria's state executioner) |
|
Nördlingen
| Dietrich Brenner | ~1469 |
| Ulrich Tucher | ~1515 |
| Conrat Raab | 1557–1565 |
| Conrad Fischer | 1565–1568 |
| Ulrich Fischer | 1568- |
| Hans Jerg Defner | ~1677 |
|
Nuremberg
| Hans Wintter | 1460–1470 |
| Hans ? | ~1479 |
| ? Gilg | 1525 |
| Franz Schmidt (also known as Meister Franz) | 1572–1617; was the first executioner to ever write a book about his occupation; deceased 1634) |
| Bernhard Schlegel | 1617– |
| Valentin Deusser | –1641 (carried out sentences just a few months) |
| Matthäus Perger | 1645- |
| Johann Michael Widmann | 1738–1757 (Nuremberg) |
|
Öttingen
| Caspar Vollmer | –1640 |
| Philipp Deibler (also Deubler) | 1643– |
| Johann Fuchs | ~1650 (deceased 1672) |
| Georg Vollmer | 1668– |
| Georg Schöppelen | 1690– |
|
Schongau
| Jörg Abriel (also Johann Georg Abrellen) | 1544–1593 | Georg Abrellen | 1597–1633 |
| Hans Jakob Kuisl | 1683–1696 |
| Hans Kuisl | 1711–1734 |
| Jakob Kuisl | 1735– |
| Johann Georg Widmann | 1751–1781 |
| Josef Benedikt Kuisl | 1783–1807 |
| Johann Michael Kuisl | 18??- (Most likely the last executioner for Schongau) |
|
Schwabmünchen
| Jakob Stangel | 1583– |
| Leonhard Tallhover | ~1720 |
| ? Rörle | –1800 |
|
Sonthofen
| Andreas Kuisl | 1678- |
| Johann Michael Kopp | 1703–1753 |
| Johannes Georg Kopp | 1753–1801 |
| Remigus Metz | 1801- |
|
Stuttgart
| Markus Bickel | 1660– |
| Jakob Bickel | |
| Andreas Bickel | |
| Johannes Bickel | –1691 |
| Adolph Grossholz | ~1720 (Stuttgart) |
|
Ulm
| Hans Conrad Näher | 1666- |
| Dietrich Deigentesch | ~1680 |
|
Waal
| Johann Georg Igel | –1783 |
| Franz Xaver Igel | 1783– |
|
Weißenhorn
| two brothers Metz | ~1640 |
| Jakob Igel | ~1787 |
| Josef Igel | ~1798 |
|
Wittstock
Hans ? 1537
Wrietzen
State Executioners (from 1848 and 1871 to 1936/37)
Baden
| Michael Müller | 1854–1886 |
| Franz Müller | 1886–1888 |
| Jakob Müller | 1888–1908 |
| Karol Wypyszewski | 1893–1896 (Baden) |
| Benjamin Burckhardt | 1884–1896 (Baden) |
| Karl Burckhardt | 1896–1935 (state executioner also for Württemberg and Hesse) |
| Karl Müller | 1908– after 1922 (Since 1921 state executioner also for Hesse) |
| Konrad Widder | 1922–1923 (Baden) |
| Friedrich Hehr | 1935–1949 (state executioner also for Württemberg and Hesse, from 1937 on imperial executioner) |
|
Bavaria
| Anton Leisner | –1852 |
| Heinrich Graul | ~1852 (Bavarian Palatinate) |
| Lorenz Scheller | 1854–1880 |
| Franz Reichhart | after 1854 |
| ? Kisslinger | –1894 |
| Franz Xaver Reichhart | 1894–1924 (Bavaria) |
| (Bavaria) 1924–1937 (from 1937 on imperial Executioner) |
|
Bremen
| Christian Schwarz | 1827–1860 (Unknown when he was nominated from Bremen City's local executioner to Bremen state executioner; from 1843 to 1859 he also was the state's executioner in Hannover) | |
Hannover
| Christian Schwarz | 1857–1859 (from 1843 til 1857 local executioner for Hannover; also local executioner in Bremen from 1827 to 1860) |
| ? Bormann | 1859–1870 |
| Julius Krautz | 1870–1878 (from 1878 state executioner for Prussia) |
|
Hesse
| Karl Burckhardt | 1896–1935 (state executioner also for Baden and Württemberg) |
| Karl Müller | 1921 (from 1908 to after 1922 also state executioner in Baden) |
| Friedrich Hehr | 1935–1949 (state executioner also for Baden and Württemberg, from 1937 on imperial executioner) |
|
Prussia
| Georg Eduard Voigt | 1852– |
| Julius Krautz | 1878–1889 (until 1878 state executioner of Hannover) |
| 1889–1898 |
| Wilhelm Reindel | 1899–1901 |
| Alwin Engelhardt | 1900–1906 (executioner for once more, and also for Saxony, from 1933 to 1936) |
| 1900–1914 |
| Richard Schwietz | 1913–1915 |
| 1906–1937 (after 1927 executioner also for Saxony) |
| Paul Spaethe | 1912–1924 (1923 also Saxony) |
| Joseph Kurz (also Kurzer) | 1924–1927 |
| Fritz Reichelt | 1927–1933 |
| Alwin Engelhardt | 1933–1936 (executioner also for Saxony from 1933 to 1936) |
|
Saxony
| ? Fritzsche | active in the 1840s and 50s |
| Otto Oswald Brand | –1885 |
| Moritz Brand | 1885–1923/1927 |
| Paul Spaethe | 1923–1927 (state executioner for Prussia from 1912 to 1924) |
| 1927–1937 (from 1906 til 1937 executioner also for Prussia) |
| Alwin Engelhardt | 1933–1936 (executioner also for Saxony from 1933 to 1936; executed Martinus van der Lubbe) |
|
Württemberg
| ? Schwarz | –1888 |
| ? Siller | 1888–1926 (Württemberg) |
| Karl Burckhardt | 1896–1935 (state executioner also for Baden and Hesse) |
| Friedrich Hehr | 1935–1949 (state executioner also for Baden and Hesse, from 1937 on imperial executioner) |
|
Unknown
Executioners from 1936/37 to 1945
| Ernst Reindel | 1936–1943 (sources vary about his start) |
| (Bavaria) 1937–1945 (from 1924 to 1937 state executioner for Bavaria; from 1945 to 1947 Interim time and Occupation executioner) |
| Friedrich Hehr | 1937–1945 (from 1935 to 1937 state executioner for Baden, Württemberg and Hesse; from 1945 to 1949 Interim time and Occupation executioner) |
| Karl Burckhardt | 1937–1945 (before 1935 state executioner for Baden, Hesse and Württemberg) |
| Gottlob Bordt | 1940–1945 |
| Alfred Roselieb | 1941–1945 |
| 1942–1945 |
| Karl Henschke | 1943–1945 |
| August Köster | 1943–1945 |
| Alois Weiß | 1943–1945 |
| Johann Mühl | 1943–1945 (from 1946 to 1947 Interim time executioner) |
| Fritz Witzka | 1943–1945 |
|
Concentration camp executioners (from 1938 to 1945)
Buchenwald
Westerbork
Interim executioners (from 1945 to 1949)
| (Bavaria) 1945–1947 (from 1924 to 1937 state executioner for Bavaria; from 1937 to 1945 Imperial executioner; also Occupation executioner with the rope for the American Military justice) |
| Friedrich Hehr | 1945–1949 (from 1935 to 1937 state executioner for Baden, Württemberg and Hesse; from 1937 to 1945 Imperial executioner; after 1946 also Occupation executioner with the rope for the British Military justice) |
| Johann Mühl | 1946–1947 (from 1943 to 1945 Imperial executioner) |
| Wilhelm Burckhard | 1945–1949 |
| Clemens Dobbek | after 1945, "working" in 1947 |
| Horst Schwenke | after 1945–1949 (possibly still nominated/active for Western Berlin after 1949; executed Berthold Wehmeyer May 11, 1949, the last sentence carried out by order of a German court in Germany) |
| Walter Böttcher after 1945 (from 1949 on executioner in the German Democratic Republic) |
| Heinz M. | 1946– |
| Clemens Dobbek | - 1949 (after 1949 executioner for Western Berlin) |
|
West Germany (1949 to 1951/53)
Except for Western Berlin where the Allied did not validate the new German constitution, West Germany had abolished capital punishment May 23, 1949. For West Berlin, the death penalty would still continue in law until January 20, 1951. Despite at least one executioner continued nominated, no death sentences or executions ordered by German courts in that period have been reported so far.
| Clemens Dobbek | 1949–1951 (before 1949 interim executioner, most likely in West Berlin only) | | |
East Germany (1949 to 1987)
| Walter Böttcher | 1949–1960s |
| Hermann Lorenz | 1968–1987 (last execution carried out June 25, 1981) |
|
Occupation Executioners (from 1945 to 1992)
Germans
| (Bavaria) 1945–1947 (from 1924 to 1937 state executioner for Bavaria; from 1937 to 1945 German executioner; after 1945 also Interim time executioner with the guillotine for German justice; executed for the US Military justice) |
| Friedrich Hehr | 1946–1952 (from 1935 to 1937 state executioner for Baden, Württemberg and Hesse; from 1937 to 1945 executioner for the German state; after 1945 also interim executioner with the guillotine for German justice |
| Gustav Völpel | 1945–1950 (in 1950 arrested, condemned for burglary and armed robberies and in jail until 1957; executed for the Soviet Military) |
|
Americans
Soviet
Hungary
Until 1868 most of executors employed by one-one bigger cities(who possessed the "pallosjog https://hu.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallosjog" [right for execution] e. c. Buda) or travellers(gypsied) did this as temporary job(until the 18th century). Emperor Joseph II introduced a law reform. The separate legislatures of the cities will be abolished, as will the patrimonial tribunal and the "pallos jog" of the estates. Before that, bakó(executioner) belonged to the status of the county, the city, the larger estate, now five executioners will be enough throughout Hungary. Later he abolished even the capital punishment(except in the military cases)but in 1795 Emperor Franz I. reintroduced.[3]
*Schüch Pál executioner of Pest
The list of state executioners[4]
Notes and References
- Did not carry out any execution; officially nominated that day, he refused the "job" and persisted in his refusal, changing his mind not even when tortured to make him reconsider. The next day, April 28, 1825, two anonymous convicts of whose names have not appeared records so far, if there are any surviving somewhere, refused the "job" either and so persisted when being shown the gallows and in front of them announced they'd be hanged there later; they preferred their own hangings
- News: Chinese executioner says job not "complicated" . Reuters . November 14, 2011.
- Web site: Szilágyi Sándor: A Magyar Nemzet Története .
- "Schuller szolgálatának vége egybeesik az 1848–1849-es forradalom és szabadságharc bukásával. Nem tudjuk, önként vagy utasításra vonult-e nyugalomba harmincegy év után, de 1849-től új, szintén brünni származású hóhér, Both Ferenc váltotta fel őt. Mintha az elnyomó osztrák hatalom még a büntetés-végrehajtókban sem bízott volna a forradalmi időkből. Tény, hogy míg a budai oldalon Schuller korábbi segédje, a győri születésű Kornberger Mihály kizárólag köztörvényes bűncselekményért elítélteken hajtotta végre a halálbüntetést, addig Both a forradalmi cselekedeteikért halálra ítélt politikai foglyok kivégzését is vállalta. Az állami terror idején Schuller József alakja egy letűnt, reményteli korszak emlékét idézte, amikor még a hóhér vörös megkülönböztető öltözetének szabása is magyaros volt a kivégzéseken…"
https://fovarosikeptar.hu/tanulj-velunk-tortenelmet-2021-9-10-evfolyam/a-forradalom-es-a-szabadsagharc/
- Web site: Tanulmányok Pest megye múltjából - Pest Megye Múltjából 11. (Budapest, 2006) Könyvtár Hungaricana.
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/indian-hangman-prepared-for-first-execution View to a kill: Indian hangman prepares for his first execution
- Web site: Marwood the Executioner – Ireland's Own.
- Web site: How Ireland's only female executioner got the job. April 18, 2019. www.irishexaminer.com.
- Web site: Maxime Hauchard . 6 September 2022 . . United Nations.
- News: Second French killer identified from video . Adam . Sage . 20 November 2014 . 6 September 2022 . The Times.
- News: 'Huda the executioner' – Libya's devil in female form . London . The Daily Telegraph . Nick . Meo . March 6, 2011.
- Web site: 15 September 2012 . Descendance de Hans Gaspard Back . 1 March 2024 . www.carnifex.lu.
- Web site: Old Penang: Suzuki, the "Hippy" Executioner: October 2013 . Anilnetto.com . 2013-10-06 . 2014-09-02.
- Web site: murmurs . murmurs: December 2011 . Kharleezzubin.blogspot.com . 2011-12-29 . 2014-08-14.
- News: Saudi executioner tells all . BBC News . June 5, 2003.
- Web site: MEMRI TV. https://web.archive.org/web/20061215105422/http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1322. dead. December 15, 2006. MEMRI.
- News: Singapore executioner 'sacked'. BBC News Online. 28 November 2005.
- News: Hangman ignites outrage. Reuters. 30 November 2005 . Melbourne. Connie. Levett. Steve. Butcher.
- http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/darshan-didnt-do-it/2005/12/02/1133422111110.html Darshan didn't do it
- News: Arthur X: Des Henkers Fall. Der Schweizerische Beobachter Online. 17 September 1999.
- Book: The Triple Tree: Newgate, Tyburn, and Old Bailey . Donald Rumbelow . Harrap . 1982 . 0245538771 . 176 .
- Book: Grafton's chronicle, or history of England: to which is added his table of the bailiffs, sheriffs and mayors of the city of London from the year 1189, to 1558, inclusive : in two volumes . 2 . Richard Grafton . Richard Grafton . Johnson . 1809 . 463 .
- Book: Crime and punishment in England: a sourcebook . Andrew Barrett . Christopher Harrison . Routledge . 1999 . 1857288718 . 54 .
- News: A discovery of the person who beheaded King Charles I. The Scots Magazine. 1 January 1776. 16.
- Book: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum: Division I. Political and personal satires . 1 . Frederic George Stephens . Mary Dorothy George . Trustees of the British Museum . 1870 . 421 .
- Bleakley (1929) p. 4
- Book: The bibliographer's manual of English literature containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing: with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold in the present century . William Thomas Lowndes . W. Pickering . 1834 . 628 .
- News: John Crossland. Chester Chronicle. 10 May 1793. 4.
- Bleakley (1929) p. 39
- Book: Thief-Taker General: Jonathan Wild and the emergence of crime and corruption as a way of life in eighteenth-century England . Gerald Howson . Transaction Publishers . 1985 . 0887380328 . 132, 276 .
- Bleakley (1929) p. 55
- Book: Memoirs of George the Third, late king of Great Britain: including characters and anecdotes of the British court . John Brown . H. Fisher . 1820 . 129 .
- Book: Hacks and dunces: Pope, Swift and Grub Street . 704 . University paperbacks . Pat Rogers . Taylor & Francis . 1980 . 0416742408 . 92 .
- Book: Book of Secrets . Lloyd Bradley . Thomas Eaton . Andrews McMeel Publishing . 2005 . 0740755617 . 138 .
- News: On Monday . Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 19 May 1752. 3.
- News: Country News. Derby Mercury. 31 October 1746. 2.
- News: Country News. Derby Mercury. 3 February 1749. 3.
- News: On Thursday last. Stamford Mercury - Thursday 18 June 1767. 3.
- Book: From noose to needle: capital punishment and the late liberal state . limited . Law, meaning, and violence . Timothy Vance Kaufman-Osborn . University of Michigan Press . 2002 . 0472088904 . 77 .
- News: Dublin. Pue's Occurrences. 6 April 1756. 1 .
- News: Dublin. Pue's Occurrences. 27 April 1756. 2.
- News: Oxford. Oxford Journal. 26 April 1760. 2.
- News: Worcester, April 30. Oxford Journal. 2 May 1767. 3.
- News: Extract of a letter from Stirling. Caledonian Mercury. 9 April 1768. 2.
- News: Extract of a letter from Sterling. Oxford Journal. 16 April 1768.
- Book: Firsts, Lasts & Onlys: Crime . Jeremy Beadle . Ian Harrison . Anova Books . 2008 . 978-1905798049 . 39 .
- Book: A history of capital punishment: with special reference to capital punishment in Great Britain . John Laurence . Kennikat Press . 1971 . 0804611149 . 104 .
- News: 9.. The Ipswich Journal. 24 June 1780. 1.
- News: Trials of the Rioters. Chester Courant - Tuesday 11 July 1780. 1.
- News: Ireland. Leeds Intelligencer. 5 October 1773. 2.
- News: Yesterday. Caledonian Mercury. 13 September 1775. 3.
- News: Edinburgh . Caledonian Mercury - Wednesday 28 February 1776. 2.
- News: On Friday . Derby Mercury. 25 July 1777. 4.
- News: on the 13th. Oxford Journal. 23 November 1782. 1.
- News: Keenan. Saunders's News-Letter. 18 June 1784. 1.
- News: Ilchester. Hereford Journal. 18 August 1785. 5.
- Bleakley (1929) p. 135
- News: Oxford. Reading Mercury. 5 March 1787. 3.
- News: John Howes. Stamford Mercury. 10 February 1792. 3.
- News: Death . Chester Chronicle - Friday 11 July 1794. 3.
- News: Thursday. The Ipswich Journal. 6 February 1802. 3.
- News: Sunday. The Ipswich Journal. 18 December 1802. 2.
- News: Winchester . Hampshire Telegraph - Monday 26 December 1803. 3.
- News: Old Ned. Manchester Mercury. 7 January 1806. 4.
- News: At the Lancaster Assizes. Sun (London). 25 March 1806. 4.
- News: The Dumfries Hangman. The Scots Magazine - Wednesday 01 July 1807. 46.
- News: Died. Saunders's News-Letter. 18 February 1809. 2.
- News: A sinecure abolished. Durham Chronicle - Friday 17 January 1834. 4.
- Bleakley (1929) p. 151
- News: . XI . 2nd ser . 20 April 1861 . 315 .
- Bleakley (1929) pp. 192–202
- News: Westmorland Gazette. 18 September 1826. 3.
- News: Ralph Fleming. Durham Chronicle. 13 May 1826. 4.
- News: Ralph Fleming. Durham Chronicle . 17 January 1829. 3.
- News: Escape of three prisoners. Durham Chronicle - Saturday 07 December 1839. 3.
- Book: Chambers's encyclopaedia: a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . 4 . . 1862 . 190 .
- News: At the High Court . Durham Chronicle. 19 November 1847. 6.
- News: Execution of Patrick Reid for the murders at Mirfield. Durham Chronicle. 14 January 1848. 6.
- Book: Lancashire magic & mystery: secrets of the Red Rose County . Kenneth Fields . Sigma . 1998 . 1850586063 . 115 .
- Book: Supper with the Crippens . David James Smith . Hachette UK . 2010 . 978-1409134138.
- Web site: Kilby electric chair – will anyone else ride lightning? . Russell Tate . December 3, 1967 . . July 26, 2010.
- Web site: Applications for executioner posts run high . May 11, 1976 . . July 15, 2010.
- Web site: Warden Transfers to Fulfill Promise . United Press International . May 21, 1986 . . July 26, 2010.
- Web site: Mother Relieved After Execution . Associated Press . May 21, 1986 . . July 26, 2010.
- Web site: Retired executioner has no regrets . Stan Bailey . August 4, 2002 . . July 15, 2010.
- Web site: After 20 executions, Grantt Culliver has a serene outlook . Tom Gordon . March 14, 2010 . . July 15, 2010.
- Web site: History- Capital Punishment in Colorado, 1859–1972 . Michael Radelet . . May 8, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110824051251/http://pdweb.coloradodefenders.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151&Itemid=103 . August 24, 2011 .
- Web site: The Executioner's Song – Job is Not All That It's Cracked Up to Be . Terje Langeland . . July 18, 2002 . May 8, 2011 . June 11, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110611093224/http://www.csindy.com/colorado/the-executioners-song/Content?oid=1115492 . dead .
- Web site: Judy Is Getting Something He Wants . March 8, 1981 . . July 15, 2010.
- News: Will Accept $100 Less for Executions . November 9, 1914 . . July 15, 2010 . November 2, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121102215247/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/710699782.html?dids=710699782:710699782&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Nov+09,+1914&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe&desc=WILL+ACCEPT+$100+LESS+FOR+EXECUTIONS&pqatl=google . dead .
- News: Mississippi: Death on Wheels . https://web.archive.org/web/20081214162935/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,802519,00.html . dead . December 14, 2008 . January 18, 1943 . . July 15, 2010.
- News: Mississippi's executioner leaves job after 30 years . May 15, 1987 . . July 15, 2010.
- http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/ESPYstate.pdf Executions is the U.S. 1608–2002: The ESPY File Executions by State
- News: CBC News: Reports from abroad: Neil Macdonald . Cbc.ca . November 7, 2011 . February 16, 2012.
- Web site: Former state executioner dies . March 5, 2010 . . July 15, 2010 .
- News: When Grover Cleveland Acted As Hangman . The New York Times . July 7, 1912.
- Web site: Only in Oklahoma: Executing criminals just another job . Gene Curtis . July 10, 2007 . . July 15, 2010.
- Web site: Executioner plugs electric chair . May 16, 1977 . . . July 15, 2010.
- Web site: Executioner Resigns Post . May 23, 1953 . Gettysburg Times . July 15, 2010.
- Web site: South Carolina Develops A New Method of Execution … Again . July 14, 2021 . Charleston City Paper . July 15, 2021.
- Book: Bad News on Death Row . October 1976 . . July 15, 2010. Communications . Emmis .
- Vajna Károly: Hazai régi büntetések, II. kötet, Lőrincz János „Univers” Könyvnyomdája, Budapest, 1907, http://mek.oszk.hu/12700/12701/pdf/12701_02-2.pdf
Gábor Ármin Barna: Hóhérlakok Budán és Pesten II., 2019, in: Patibulum blog, https://patibulum.blog.hu/2019/08/21/hoherlakok_budan_es_pesten_ii
Tóth Rebeka: A halálbüntetés kronológiája Magyarországon, 2019, in: arsbona.hu, https://arsboni.hu/a-halalbuntetes-kronologiaja-magyarorszagon/
- Kornberger, Mihály executioner (1850?–1867)[He was executioner of Buda but later became a non official executioner of the whole country in criminal but not political cases][4] [5]
- Kozarek, Ferenc state executioner(1876–1894)
- Bali, Mihály state executioner (1894–1925)
- Gold, Károly state executioner (1925–1928)
- Kozarek, Antal state executioner (1929–1932)
- Id.(Senior) Bogár(Kovács), János state executioner (1932–1944)
- Ifj. (Junior) Bogár, János state executioner (1944–1965?) (He executed: before 1945: some political prisoners, after 1945: Ferenc Szálasi, László Rajk, Imre Nagy and all death sentenced people between this time).
- Pradlik, György the last state executioner (–1988)
India
Mullick family, Culcutta
Lakshman Ram family, Meerut
(son of Mammu Singh) (Meerut)
Others
Ireland
Ireland consisted of the Kingdom of Ireland between 1534 and 1800; it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1801–1922; after that it was Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State; from 1937 the southern part was the Republic of Ireland.
ISIS
| -2015 (British citizen known as Jihadi John) |
| Maxime Hauchard | active in 2014 (French citizen converted to Islam in 2008)[9] |
| Michael Dos Santos | active in 2014 (French citizen who has been using the name Abou Othman after his conversion to Islam)[10] | |
Libya
Benghazi
Luxembourg
Malaysia
| Tadashi Suzuki | 1941–1945 (Japanese occupation executioner for Butterworth and Pulau Pinang)[13] |
| Rajendran Kuppusamy | –1986 (died Nov. 15, 2011)[14] |
| Kesavan A. Arumugam | before 2001 - after 2010 | | |
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Zutphen
New Caledonia
Monsieur de la Bagne: The Executioners of the Bagne
All executioners of New Caledonia's Bagne were inmates themselves.
| Petit | 1867–1874 |
| Meyer | 1874 |
| Ambarreck | 1874- |
| Henri Brissac | possibly -September 1879 (as a death penalty opposer and Commune de Paris member he was forced to "work" as an aide and most likely to execute later |
| Guerino | after 1874 or 1879 - before 1882 |
| Ledoux | - c. 1882 |
| Jean-Louis Macé | c. 1882–1905 (nicknamed "Monsieur Nou" by the other inmates; last name also appears as Massé) |
| Rieusset | 1905- (last name also given as Rieussec) |
| Paturot | active in 1920 |
| ? Julian | after 1920 |
| Dalstein | active in 1933 |
| ? | unknown Javanese inmate active in 1934 |
| Jugaret | 1937–1943 (nicknamed "La Gueule" by the other inmates) | |
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
In Pakistan, executioners have obligatorily to be Christians.
Papal States
Poland
| Jan Mueller | –1793 |
| 1793–1813 or before |
| –1928 |
| Jan Maciejewski | –1932 |
| Artur Braun | 1932 (no executions, fired the morning after his nomination for shooting around woefully drunk while celebrating his new "job") |
| 1948 or before 1951 | |
Portugal
Romania
| Ionel Boeru | leader of the Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu firing squad December 25, 1989 |
| Dorin Cârlan | member of the Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu firing squad December 25, 1989 |
| Octavian Gheorghiu | member of the Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu firing squad December 25, 1989 | |
Russia (USSR)
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
| Bert Seymour | –1959 |
| 1959–2005 (sacked); 2005–2006 (readmitting to retirement) (so Singh did not carry out the execution of Van Tuong Nguyen in 2005)[17] [18] [19] | |
South Africa
Cape of Good Hope
| Barend (in 1804) (Lijst van Alle Collegien 1804) | |
| Carolus (1848–...) (Cape of Good Hope Almanac 1853) | |
| Edward H. von Witt (1860s–1884) | |
| Arthur J. King (1884–1898) (Civil Service List) | |
| Thomas W. Blake (1898–1910) (Civil Service List) | |
South African Republic / Transvaal (colony)
| Jan Bastiaan Rabie (1890–1891) | |
| Gideon S. Scheepers (1891–...) | |
| Arthur Simpson (1908–1910) | |
South Africa
Spain
Audiencia de Madrid
Audiencia de Barcelona
Audiencia de Burgos
Audiencia de Sevilla
Audiencia de Zaragoza
Sweden
| Mikael Reissuer (Stockholm) | 1635–1650 (nicknamed Mäster Mikael) |
| Gabriel Alexandersson Meijer | end 1600s – beginning 1700s |
| Alexander Gabrielsson Meijer (Västmanland, Uppsala) | 1721–1741 (son of Gabriel Alexandersson Meijer) |
| Gabriel Meijer d.ä. (Örebro) | 1741–1765 or before (son of Alexander Gabrielsson Meijer) |
| Anders Persson Trafware | 1702–1721 (Gävleborg) |
| Lars Flink (Östergötland) | active in 1719 |
| Brun (Malmö) | active in 1743 |
| Carl Hjerpe (Göteborg) | 1765–1784 |
| Lars Hjerpe (Göteborg) | 1784–1807 (son of Carl Hjerpe) |
| Erik Lyckman (Kopparberg, Gävleborg, Västernorrland) | before 1794–1798 |
| Jonas Sandwall (Asarum) | active in 1794 |
| Niclas Öberg (Harbäcken, Strömsund) | –1813 |
| Hemming Sjögren (Sjöbo) | 1816 or before – 1825 or after (himself executed ?) |
| Carl Magnus Lidman (Uppsala, Gävleborg, Västernorrland) | active in 1822 |
| Olof Olsson Häll (military and settlement executioner) | 1827–1833 |
| Carl Ludvig Nafström (Stockholm) | 1832–1859) |
| Styf (Hörsne, Gotland) | –1854 (himself executed for murder March 5, 1845) |
| Hans Carlsson (Blekinge, Skåne) | –1838 |
| Anders Pettersson (Blekinge, Skåne) | 1838–1868 |
| Magnus Jarl | 1840 or before – 1861 or after |
| Jacob Gyll (Västerbotten) | active in 1851 |
| Johannes Jansson (Göteborg) | 1854 or before – 1857 or after |
| Magnus Ferm (Örebro) | active in 1858 |
| Johan Fredrik Hjort (Stockholm) | 1859–1882 |
| Per Petter Christiansson Steineck (Jönköping/Vadstena) | 1861–1887 |
| Albert Gustaf Dahlman (also called Anders Gustaf Dahlman; originally in Stockholm, from 1901 for the entire country) | 1885–1920 | |
Switzerland
Basel
| Bernhard Schlegel | –1374 (murdered by theft victim Peter Agsten after the thief hanged got back to live) |
| Claus von Offenburg | 1393– or –1393 (?) |
| Hans Körber | 1424–1436 |
| Hans Seckeler | 1430–1445 |
| Hans Krämer | 1445–1448 (nicknamed "Gangkly") |
| Hans Heyd | 1448–1449 |
| Ulrich von Eger | 1449–1458 |
| Ulrich von Honwile | 1458–1467 or –1474 (?) |
| Hans Schatz | 1474–1476 |
| Jakob Rennisfeld | 1476–1488 |
| Jakob Nydegger | 1488–1497 |
| Ulrich | 1497–1509 |
| Conrad von Horn | 1509–1511 or –1516 (?) |
| Hans Schenk | 1516-518 |
| Gilg Beck | 1518–1529 |
| Jakob | 1529–1537 |
| Niklaus Rod | 1537–1541 |
| Jörg Volmar | 1541 (himself decapitated for murder still in 1541) |
| Niklaus Schnatz | 1545–1546, 1552 (contract executioner from Berne) |
| Pauli Fuerer | 1559–1569 or – 1572 (?) |
| Georg Käser | 1572–1592 or –1612 (?) |
| ? Iseli | 1612–1633 |
| Thomas Iseli | 1633 |
| Conrad von Hagen | 1633–1635 |
| Georg ? | 1635–1652 |
| Paulus Stunzt | 1652 (contracted executioner from Saint-Gall) |
| Jakob Günther | 1652–1692 |
| Georg Friedrich Günther | 1692–1714 or –1726 (?) |
| Hans Jakob Günther | 1692 |
| ? von Hagen | 1694–1695 or –1726 (?) |
| Sebastian Näher | 1726–1745 |
| Friedrich Näher | 1745–1758 or –1766 (?) |
| Martin Mengis | 1766–1804 |
| Peter Mengis | 1804–1838 |
| Jacob Mengis | 1838–1850 (contracted executioner from Aargau since Bâle chose to not have an own executioner after 1838. |
|
Glarus
| ? Vollmer | ~1782 |
| see also Schwyz | |
Saint-Gall
| Vollmar family | 1695– |
| Johannes Bettenmann | –1843 |
| see also Schwyz | |
Schwyz
| Christoph Mengis | –1651 |
| Christoph II. Mengis | 1651–1681 |
| Johannes Mengis | 1681–1695 |
| Balthasar Mengis | 1695–1723 |
| Bernhard Mengis | 1723- |
| ? Mengis | –1779 |
| Johann Melchior Grossholz | –1815 |
| Augustin Grossholz | 1815–1826 |
| Joseph Pickel | 1826–1829 |
| Oswald Schlumpf | 1829–1830 |
| Johann Bettenmann | 1855–1857 (also for Saint-Gall) |
| Franz Xaver Schmid | 1830–1855 (also for Zug and Glarus) | |
Uri
| Franz Josef Grossholz | active in 1765 |
| Nikolaus Grossholz | active in 1833 |
| Vinzenz Grossholz | 1861– |
|
Zug
| Franz Grossholz | 1822– |
| Arthur X. | August 25, 1939 (official reference to the voluntary executioner of Paul Irniger, the "taxi killer of Baar"; born September 16, 1915, Arthur X. was given entrance at Burghölzli mental institution in Zürich because of paranoid schizophrenia September 12, 1947; September 1952 he was transferred to the Clinica Waldhaus mental institution in Chur where he deceased January 26, 1960)[20] |
| see also Schwyz | |
Zürich
| Cunrat Grossholz | 1473– |
| Paulus Volmar | 1587– |
| Hans Jakob Volmar | |
| Hans Jakob II. Volmar | |
| Johann Näher | 1639–1650 (1623–1640 and again after 1650 in Lindau, Germany) |
| Hans Jakob III. Volmar | –1697 |
| Hans Jakob IV. Volmar | 1697- 1711 |
| ? Vollmer | 1820s |
|
Federal Executioner for all Swiss Death Penalty Cantons
See also: Switzerland.
| Theodor Mengis | 1879–1918 |
| Theodor Mengis Junior | 1918–1958 | |
United Kingdom
| Cratwell | to 1538 (London; in 1538 he was himself hanged for robbery)[21] [22] |
| "Stump-leg" | to 1556 (London; he was himself hanged for theft)[23] |
| ? Bull | before 1587–1601 (London) |
| 1601- before 1616 (London) |
| Gregory Brandon | before 1616- before 1640 (London) |
| before 1640–1649 (London) |
| 1649 (London) : Lieutenant-colonel Joyce was named as the person who executed King Charles I by William Lilly.[24] |
| William Lowen | 1649 (London)[25] |
| 1649–1663 (London)[26] (the subject of Groanes from Newgate, or an Elegy upon Edward Dun. Esq., the Citie's Common Hangman, who died naturally in his bed the 11th of September, 1663. Written by a person of Quality)[27] |
| John Crossland | c1660 (Derby) supposed to have been one of three members of the same family convicted and then appointed hangman to hang the other two and then remaining in post.[28] |
| 1663–1686 (London) |
| 1686 (Bleackley (1929) graphs his name as Pasha Rose; London) |
| 1714–1715 (London) |
| 1715–1717 (London) |
| James Aird | 1715–1723 (Scotland) |
| ? Banks (known as Banks the Bailiff) | 1717- after 1718 (London) |
| Richard Arnet | before 1726–1728[29] (London; hanged Jonathan Wild in 1725[30]) |
| John Hooper | 1728–1735[31] (London; known as "the laughing hangman") |
| John Thrift | 1735–1752 (convicted of murder in 1750, but pardoned and continued in office). (London);[32] [33] executed Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat on 9 April 1747, the last man to be beheaded in England.[34] Thrift controversially was buried at St Paul's.[35] |
| William Stout, of Hexham | 1746 York; hanged Francis Buchanan, two hours before a reprieve arrived.[36] |
| Robert Clarke, a Butcher | 1749 Sussex; executed some smugglers and later hanged himself after being tricked out of money.[37] |
| William Elliot | c1752 (London) executed at Tyburn on 10 June 1767 for housebreaking, he had been hangman earlier after John Thrift, Elliott was transported for felony, after the expiry of his term he returned continued as a common robber.[38] |
| Thomas Turlis | 1752–1771 (London); hanged Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers with a silken rope, the last nobleman to be hanged in England[39]) |
| Edward Hamlon | 1756 (Dublin); arrested, identified as topman (or hangman) and sentenced to transportation for attempted robbery.[40] [41] |
| James Crosier | 1760 (Oxford) in April, 1760 the hangman enlisted into the army. It was reported that he had carried out many hangings.[42] |
| Joseph Cartwright | 1767 (Worcester) in April, 1767 this prisoner was under sentence of transportation when he hanged Samuel Turner, for housebreaking.[43] |
| Andrew Boyle | c1768 (Edinburgh) a prisoner hangman, escaped wearing his wife's clothes, he was captured and escaped again from Arbroath. He was recaptured and found in possession of a watch, banknotes and other stolen items. He had previously been convicted of theft and then enlisted as a soldier.[44] [45] |
| Edward Dennis | 1771–1786 (London); the last hangman at Tyburn and the first at Newgate;[46] died 21 November 1786 at his home in the Old Bailey[47]) The hangman was arrested in 1780, and sent to the New Prison, Clerkenwell for involvement in crimes.[48] He was convicted for his part in the riots.[49] |
| Henry Thornton, | 1773 (Sligo): Thornton the High Sheriff, had to step forward to carry out this when the official hangman was not at his post at the right moment, when Samuel Slack finished his speech to those assembled.[50] |
| William Mcghie | c1775 (Glasgow) : when arrested for theft in 1775, he was described as 'late hangman in Glasgow'.[51] He was sentenced to be whipped through the city for repeated acts of theft, and banished for life.[52] |
| ? Allen | 1777 (Lincoln) : capitally convicted, then reprieved, he later hanged for Highway Robbery Thomas Hamm, a former accomplice of his.[53] |
| Edward Barlow | 1781–1812 (Lancashire) |
| A female | 1782 (Dublin) : an unidentied woman hanged two men for murder on 13th, November at Kilmainham, near Dublin. The men were also quartered. The sheriff received abuse for making a hangman of a woman.[54] |
| Keenan | c1784 (Ireland) : described as "late hangman of the New Prison and is now an approver at Kilmainham, was four times capitally convicted, and will again, by a defect on our laws, be turned loose to commit more depredations on the public"[55] |
| Thomas Woodham | c1785 (Gloucester). Aged 69 executed for highway robbery in Ilchester in August 1785, described as a former Gloucester hangman[56] |
| William Brunskill | career lasted from 1786 to 1814 (London)[57] (started as assistant to Edward Dennis; executed Catherine Murphy in 1789, the last woman to be burned at the stake in England) |
| William Blackhall | c1787 (Oxford) reported as "on a former occasion, officiated as hangman, committed to our Castle, charged upon oath with stealing, out of a house".[58] |
| John Howes | 1792 (Norfolk) : reported as "the hangman for Norfolk, committed to the house of correction at Wymondham, for want of sureties in a case of bastardy."[59] In a similar article in the Norfolk Chronicle of 4 February 1792, he is described as "the finisher of the law for this county" ('finisher of the law' being a euphemism for hangman). |
| Thomas Davies | c1794 (Shropshire) : reported as "hangman for city and county of Shropshire, the Principalty of North Wales, Montgomeryshire etc died 1794.[60] |
| Samuel Burrows | 1802–1834 (Cheshire) |
| William Taylor | −1810 |
| Jonathan Cole | 1802 (Suffolk) : county hangman charged with stealing oats. He was sentenced to transportation.[61] [62] |
| William "John" Curry | 1802–1835 (Yorkshire) |
| John Read | 1803 (Hampshire) : the county hangman placed in the stocks and to serve 6 months.[63] |
| Edward Barlow | 1806 (Lancashire) : it was reported that Old Ned the hangman was committed to Lancaster Castle for stealing a horse.[64] Edward Barlow for many years hangman, sentenced to be hanged for horse-stealing.[65] |
| Josie Tait | c1807 (Dumfries) : named in a poem published in 1807.[66] |
| Patrick Halpen | c1794–1809 (Newgate) Died whilst in the office of Finisher of the Law he had occupied for thirteen years, his widow is thought may succeeded him in his role as hangman.[67] |
| Donald Ross | 1812–1834 (Inverness) appointed on a salary of £12 plus numerous perks. It was reported he was attached by a mob of mischievous boys and lads, and died on the spot. He was not replaced.[68] |
| 1813/17–1819 (London) |
| John Langley | 1814–1817 (London)[69] |
| 1817–1820 |
| John Milne (executioner) | –1818 (Aberdeen) |
| Thomas Cheshire | 1820–1829 (London; known as "Old Cheese";[70] assistant from 1808 to 1820 and from 1820 to 1840)[71] |
| 1820–1829 (London; name also given as Foxten) |
| Samuel Haywood | 1820–1848 (Leicestershire & the Midlands) |
| "Bungey's" Ralph Fleming | c1826 (Durham) Reported in the paper as being sought for theft of a cloak, the common hangman sentenced to 2 months in prison.[72] [73] He was sentenced to transportation for seven years for theft of a cotton gown in September, 1829. It was said he had previously committed innumerable thefts.[74] |
| William Lee | −1827 |
| George Mitchell | 1828–1845 (Southwest) |
| 1829–1874 |
| James Coates | 1835–1839 (Yorkshire) Coates was under sentence of seven years transportation but took on the role of hangman remaining in confinement at York Castle. He was one of three prisoners that escaped from the castle in 1839.[75] |
| John Scott | 1835–1847 (last executioner of Edinburgh)[76] James Eddy was found guilty of his homicide, whilst drink he had assaulted Scott, who was said to be in frail health.[77] |
| John Wilkinson | 1839–1840 (Yorkshire; no execution carried out) |
| Nathaniel Howard | 1840–1853 (Yorkshire)[78] |
| 1843–1872 |
| Thomas Askern | 1856–1877 (initially Yorkshire) |
| 1873–1883 |
| 1872–1883 |
| George Meker, or George Incher | 1875–1881 (Staffordshire) |
| 1883–1884 |
| 1884–1891 (Home Office List) |
| 1884–1901 (Home Office List) |
| 1892–1895 (Home Office List) |
| William Warbrick | 1893–1910 (Home Office List) |
| 1897–1901 (Home Office List) |
| 1900–1910 (Home Office List) |
| 1901–1923 (Home Office List) |
| 1902–1905 (Home Office List) |
| 1902–1905 (Home Office List) |
| William Willis | 1906–1926 (Home Office List; assistant to John Ellis from 1906;[79] assisted him in the execution of Hawley Harvey Crippen[80]) |
| 1906–1946 (Home Office List) |
| 1915–1935 (Home Office List) |
| Thomas Phillips | 1918–1941 (Home Office List) |
| Robert Wilson | 1920–1936 (Home Office List) |
| 1928–1937 (Home Office List) |
| 1932–1941 (Home Office List) |
| 1932–1956 (Home Office List) |
| Henry Kirk, or Harry Kirk | 1941–1950 (Home Office List) |
| 1941–1955 (Home Office List) |
| 1941–1964 (Home Office List) |
| Herbert Allen | 1949–early 1950s (assistant) not to be confused with Henry Bernard Allen above; both men were known socially as "Harry Allen" |
| 1949–1954 (assistant) |
| 1950–1964 (Home Office List) |
| Royston Lawrence Rickard | 1953–1964 (assistant) |
| Harry Frank Robinson | 1958–1964 (assistant) |
| Samuel Barrass Plant | 1961–1964 (assistant) |
| John Underhill | 1963–1964 (assistant) | |
United States
John C. Woods (1911–1950). Hangman for the Third Army in WWII. He was one of the hangmen who executed Nazi war criminals.
Joseph Malta (1918–1999) was the hangman who, with John C. Woods, executed the top 10 leaders of the Third Reich in Nuremberg on October 16, 1946, for crimes against humanity.
Alabama
| Clarence Burford, warden at Kilby Prison from 1952 to 1965, was involved in several executions.[81] |
| Murray Daniels, assistant warden at Kilby Prison in the 1950s, involved in eleven executions.[82] |
| J.D. White, warden at Holman Correctional Facility from 1980 to 1983, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences. Executed Alabama's first post-Furman inmate, John Louis Evans on April 22, 1983.[83] |
| Willie Johnson, warden at Holman Correctional Facility from 1983 to 1988, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences[84] | |
| Charlie Jones, warden at Holman Correctional Facility from 1988 to 2002, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences[85] |
| Grantt Culliver, warden at Holman Correctional Facility from 2002 to 2009, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences[86] |
| Gary Hetzel, warden at Holman Correctional Facility since 2012, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences | |
Arkansas
During the first part of the 20th century, operators of the electric chair were known as "State electricians".Colorado
| John J. "Jack" Eeles – corrections officer who served as hangman at Colorado State Penitentiary until he was murdered in a prison riot on October 3, 1929.[87] | |
| Wayne K. Patterson – warden at Colorado State Penitentiary who pulled the lever to start execution of Luis Jose Monge on June 2, 1967. This was the last execution in the United States prior to the 1972 US Supreme Court case Furman vs. Georgia, which temporarily invalidated the death penalty procedures nationwide. Patterson was opposed to capital punishment.[88] | |
Indiana
| Jack P. Duckworth | 1981 – Warden of Indiana State Prison at Michigan City who was required by law to throw the switch at the electrocution of Steven Timothy Judy[89] | |
Louisiana
| c. 1725–1737 or after (an emancipated slave appointed public executioner of Louisiana (New France)) |
| Grady H. Jarratt | 1941 (last name also given as Jarrett) |
| Edward "Ephie" Foster | active in 1946 (substitute executioner) |
| "Sam Jones" | 1983–1991 (Sam Jones is a pseudonym used by that executioner) | |
Massachusetts
| Edwin B. Currier | circa 1910 – Chief Engineer at Massachusetts General Hospital who operated electric chair control panel during executions at Charlestown Prison.[90] | |
Mississippi
Missouri
| Alan R. Doerhoff | (apparently involved in executions also in Indiana, Arizona and at least one Federal) | |
New York
Erie County
| September 6, 1872 and February 14, 1873[96] | |
New York State Electrician
| 1890–1914 |
| 1913–1926 |
| 1926–1939 |
| 1939–1953 |
| 1953–1963 | |
Ohio
Before Statehood
- Sheriff John Ludlow on November 15, 1792 (today's Hamilton County)
Adams County
- Sheriff John Ellison, Jr. on December 10, 1808
Cuyahoga County
- Sheriff Samuel S. Baldwin and Deputy Sheriff & Coroner Levi Johnson on June 26, 1812
- Sheriff Miller S. Spangler on June 1, 1855
- Sheriff Felix Nicola on February 9 and 10, 1866 and August 10, 1866
- Sheriff John Frazee on February 4 or 13, 1869 and April 25, 1872
- Sheriff Pardon B. Smith on April 29, 1874
- Sheriff A. P. Winslow on June 22, 1876
- Sheriff John Wilcox on February 13, 1879
Fairfield County
- Sheriff Daniel Kishler and Coroner John Heck on October 14, 1836
Franklin County
- Sheriff William Domigan and Coroner A. W. Reader on February 9, 1844 (a double execution, including the first reported execution of a woman in Ohio's history)
- Sheriff Silas W. Park and Coroner Elias Gaver on December 17, 1858
Gallia County
- Sheriff Samuel Holcomb on September 9, 1817
Ross County
- Sheriff Jeremiah McLene and Coroner Benjamin Urmston on August 3, 1804
Portage County
- Sheriff Asa Burroughs on November 30, 1816
State Executioners with the Gallows
- Warden Isaac Peetry between 1885 and 1886, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden E.G. Coffin between 1886 and 1890, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden B.F. Dyer between 1890 and 1892, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden C.C. James between 1892 and 1896, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden E.G. Coffin between 1896 and 1897, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
State Executioners with the Electric Chair
- Warden E.G. Coffin between 1897 and 1900, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden W.N. Darby between 1900 and 1903, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden E. A. Hershey between 1903 and 1904, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden O.B. Gould between 1904 and 1909, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden T.H.B. Jones between 1909 and 1913, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden D.E. Thomas between 1913 and 1935, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden J.C. Woodard between 1935 and 1939, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden F.D. Henderson between 1939 and 1948, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden R.W. Alvis between 1948 and 1959, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden B.C. Sacks between 1959 and 1961, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
- Warden E.L. Maxwell between 1961 and 1963, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
- Zoe Himes in 1911 (a secretary of Clarion County, PA, Court House, she reportedly executed Vincent Voycheck on June 1, 1911)
- Frank Wilson electrical industry superintendent from Pittsburgh area who served as executioner between 1939 and 1953 at Rockview Prison.[99]
South Carolina
Tench Boozer (1911–1918)[100]
Texas
- Joe Byrd - Captain of the guard at the Walls Unit who served as executioner between 1936 and 1964. The nearby prison cemetery, where unclaimed remains of executed inmates are buried by the state, is named in his honor.
- W. James "Jim" Estelle - Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) between 1972 and 1983. Was designated executioner under policy developed by the TDCJ in 1976.[101] Was the individual pushing the drugs into the IV lines at the December 1982 execution of Charlie Brooks, the first inmate in the United States to be executed by lethal injection.
Virginia
| 1982–1999 – Givens, a corrections officer at Virginia State Penitentiary and later Greensville Correctional Center, served as official executioner for all executions carried out in the state during this time period. | |
West Virginia
Jefferson County
Zimbabwe and former Rhodesia
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- Evans, Richard J.: Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600–1987. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996; London: Penguin Books, 1997
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- Koch, Tankred: Die Geschichte der Henker: Scharfrichterschicksale aus acht Jahrhunderten. Heidelberg: Kriminalistikverlag, 1988; Herrsching: Manfred-Pawlak-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991
- Lachance, André: Le Bourreau au Canada sous le Régime Français. Québec, QC: Société historique de Québec, 1966
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- Nowosadtko, Jutta: Scharfrichter und Abdecker: Der Alltag zweier "unehrlicher Berufe" in der Frühen Neuzeit. Paderborn: 1994
- Ribeiro, João Luiz: No Meio das Galinhas as Baratas Não Têm Razão: A Lei de 10 de Junho de 1835 – Os Escravos e a Pena de Morte no Império do Brasil 1822–1889. Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Renovar, 2005.
- Rossa, Kurt: Todesstrafen: Von den Anfängen bis heute. Bergisch-Gladbach: Bastei-Lübbe-Verlag, 1979
- Streib, Victor L.: The Fairer Death: Executing Women in Ohio. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006
- Welsh-Huggins, Andrew: No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009
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See also
Sources
- Book: Bleakley, Horace . The Hangmen of England: How They Hanged and Whom They Hanged, The Life Story of "Jack Ketch" through two Centuries . London . Chapman and Hall . 1929 .
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