List of people who were executed explained

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

Arson and sabotage

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

Assassination

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

Firearm offences

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

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

Ancient Times (pre AD 500)

Pre-Modern Era (500-1500)

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

1900s

1910s

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

1920s

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

1930s

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

1950s

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

1960s

1970s

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

1980s

Post 1990

Saddam Hussein (2006)
Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Naggar (2000)
Tal'at Fu'ad Qasim (1995)

Murder

Serial killers

Frank Abbandando (1942) contract killer
Zaven Almazyan (1973) known as "the Voroshilovgrad Maniac"
Diogo Alves (1841) known as "the Aqueduct Murderer"
Klaas Annink (1775) known as "Huttenkloas"
Stephen Wayne Anderson (2002)
Velma Barfield (1984)
Donald Beardslee (2005)
Martha Beck (1951) known as one of the "Lonely Hearts Killers"
Oleksandr Berlizov (1972) known as "the Night Demon"
Mohammed Bijeh (2005) known as "the Vampire of the Tehran Desert"
Jake Bird (1949) known as "the Tacoma Axe Murderer"
Oscar Ray Bolin (2016)
William Bonin (1996)
Gary Ray Bowles (2019)
Judy Buenoano (1998) known as "the Black Widow"
Ted Bundy (1989)
Frank Carter (1927) known as "the Phantom Sniper"
Augustine Chacon (1902) known as "the Hairy One"
Oba Chandler (2011)
George Chapman (1903)
Gao Chengyong (2019) known as "the Gansu Ripper"
The Chijon family (1995) a South Korean gang
Andrei Chikatilo (1994) known as "the Butcher of Rostov"
John Christie (1953)
Eric Edgar Cooke (1964) known as "the Night Caller"
Thomas Neill Cream (1892) known as "the Lambeth Poisoner"
Gordon Cummins (1942) known as "the Blackout Ripper"
Sarah Dazley (1843) known as "the Potton Poisoner"
Williamina "Minnie" Dean (1895) only woman executed in New Zealand
Westley Allan Dodd (1993) first post-Gregg execution in Washington
Martin Dumollard (1862) known as "the Monster of Montluel"
Theodore Durrant (1898) known as "the Demon in the Belfry"
Amelia Dyer (1896) known as "the Ogress of Reading"
John Errol Ferguson (2013)
Raymond Fernandez (1951) known as one of the "Lonely Hearts Killers"
Albert Fish (1936) known as "the Brooklyn Vampire"
Joseph Paul Franklin (2013)
John Wayne Gacy (1994) known as "the Killer Clown"
Gilles Garnier (1573) known as "the Werewolf of Dole"
Carlton Gary (2018) known as "the Stocking Strangler"
Donald Henry Gaskins (1991) known as "the Redneck Charles Manson"
Harvey Glatman (1959) known as "the Glamour Girl Slayer"
Sergey Golovkin (1996) known as "the Boa", last execution in Russia
Fritz Haarmann (1925) known as "the Butcher of Hanover"
John George Haigh (1949) known as "the Acid Bath Murderer"
Saeed Hanaei (2002) known as "the Spider Killer"
William Henry Hance (1994) known as "the Force of Evil"
Robert Dale Henderson (1993)
H. H. Holmes (1896)
Yuri Ivanov (1989) known as "the Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac"
Thomas Jeffrey (1826) known as "Jeffries the Monster"
Hélène Jégado (1852)
Jack Harold Jones (2017)
John Joubert (1996) known as "the Woodford Slasher"
Willi Kimmritz (1950) perpetrator of the "Horror of the Brandenburg Forest" murders
Yoshio Kodaira (1949) known as "the Japanese Bluebeard"
Andrew Kokoraleis (1999) last execution in Illinois
Vasili Komaroff (1923) known as "the Wolf of Moscow"
Peter Kürten (1931) known as "the Vampire of Düsseldorf"
Henri Désiré Landru (1922) known as "the Bluebeard of Gambais"
Eddie Leonski (1942) known as "the Brownout Strangler"
Gamal Lineveldt (1941)
Robert Joseph "Bobby Joe" Long (2019) known as "the Adman Rapist"
John Lynch (1842) known as "the Berrima Axe Murderer"
Hiroshi Maeue (2009) known as "the Suicide Website Murderer"
Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour (2010)
Peter Manuel (1958) known as "the Beast of Birkenshaw"
Saad Iskandar Abdel Masih (1953)
David Mason (1993)
Hanafi Mat Hassan (2008)
Vladislav Mazurkievitz (1957) known as "the Gentleman Killer"
Daisy de Melker (1932)
Igor Mirenkov (1996) perpetrator of the "Svetlogorsk Nightmare" murders
Tsutomu Miyazaki (2008) known as "the Otaku Murderer"
Stanislav Modzelevski (1969) known as "the Vampire of Galkovek"
Catherine Montvoisin (1680) known as "La Voisin"
Elifasi Msomi (1956)
Seisaku Nakamura (1943) known as "the Hamamatsu Deaf Killer"
Earle Nelson (1928) known as "the Dark Strangler"
Robert Nixon (1939) known as "Brick Moron"
Gordon Stewart Northcott (1930) known as "the Ape Man"
Paul Ogorzow (1941) known as "the S-Bahn Murderer"
Manuel "Manny" Pardo (2012)
Steven Brian Pennell (1992) known as "the Route 40 Killer", first post-Gregg execution in Delaware
Marcel Petiot (1946)
Thomas W. Piper (1876) known as "the Boston Belfry Murderer"
Harry Powers (1932) known as "the Bluebeard of West Virginia"
Alfredo Prieto (2015)
Marion Albert Pruett (1999) known as "the Mad Dog"
Gilles de Rais (1440) known as "Bluebeard"
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz (2006) known as "the Railroad Killer"
Darrell Keith Rich (2000) known as "the Hilltop Rapist"
Stephen D. Richards (1879) known as "the Nebraska Fiend", first execution in the State of Nebraska
Ion Rîmaru (1971) known as "the Vampire of Bucharest"
Eric Robert (2012)
Daniel Rolling (2006) known as "the Gainesville Ripper"
Michael Bruce Ross (2005) first post-Gregg execution in Connecticut and last execution in Connecticut
Edward H. Rulloff (1871) known as "the Educated Killer"
Raya and Sakina (1920)
Tommy Lynn Sells (2014)
Abdullah Shah (2004) known as "Zardad's Dog"
Simicoudza Simicourba (1911)
Vasily Smirnov (1980) known as "the Gatchina Psychopath"
George Joseph Smith (1915) perpetrator of the "Brides in the Bath" murders
Arnold Sodeman (1936) known as "the Schoolgirl Strangler"
Timothy Wilson Spencer (1994) known as "the Southside Strangler"
Charles Starkweather (1959)
Vladimir Storozhenko (1982) known as "the Smolensk Strangler"
Peter Stumpp (1589) known as "the Werewolf of Bedburg"
Nicholas Todd Sutton (2020) most recent execution in Tennessee and via electric chair
François Tomasini (1914)
Jean-Baptiste Troppmann (1870) known as "the Human Tiger"
Joseph Vacher (1898) known as "the French Ripper"
Sek Kim Wah (1988) Singapore's first serial killer
Eugen Weidmann (1939) last public execution in France
Thomas Whisenhant (2010)
John Allen Williams known as "the Beltway Sniper"
Kenneth Williams (2017) most recent execution in Arkansas
Stanley Williams (2005)
Douglas Franklin Wright (1996) first post-Gregg execution in Oregon
Aileen Wuornos (2002)
Elias Xitavhudzi (1960) known as "the Pangaman"
Yang Xinhai (2004) known as "the Monster Killer"

Political opponents

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

Political purges

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

Executed members of the 20 July plot

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

Prisoners of war

Alexander George Arbuthnot and Robert C. Ambrister (1818) both hanged by Andrew Jackson
Marc Bloch (1944)
Emilio De Bono (1944)
Davy Crockett (1836)
Maximilian Kolbe (1941) volunteered himself in place of another
Élise Rivet (1945)
Elisabeth de Rothschild (1945)

Religious figures

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

Robbery and theft

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

Sexual offences

Homosexuality

Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477), German cross dressing lesbian executed for heresy against nature after having used a dildo on two female partners.
John Atherton (1640), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore^[1]
Jacopo Bonfadio (1550), Italian humanist and historian^[2]
Francesco Calcagno (1550), Venician Franciscan friar.^[3]
Giovanni di Giovanni (1365), 15-year-old Italian boy charged with being "a public and notorious passive sodomite"^[4] ^[5]
Lisbetha Olsdotter (1679), Swedish cross-dresser and early female soldier (disguised as a man).
Dominique Phinot (1556), French composer of the Renaissance^[6]
James Pratt and John Smith (1835), last two executions for sodomy in the UK
Tibira do Maranhão (1614), Brazilian Tupinambá executed for sodomy by French colonizers
Mervyn Tuchet (1631)

Sexual assault

Rape

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

Paedophiles

Other sex offences

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

Smuggling

Rosman Abdullah (2024), drug trafficking
Roger Casement (1916) arms trafficking
Roslan Bakar and Pausi Jefridin (2024), drug trafficking
Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers (1986), drug trafficking
Andrew Chan (2015), drug trafficking
Ong Ah Chuan (1981), drug trafficking
Low Hong Eng (1981), drug trafficking
Johannes van Damme (1994), drug trafficking
Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam (2022), drug trafficking
Vladislav Faibishenko and Yan Rokotov (1961)
Norasharee Gous (2022), drug trafficking
Arthur Gray (1748)
Derrick Gregory (1989), drug trafficking
Tony de la Guardia (1989), drug trafficking
Rodrigo Gularte (2015), drug trafficking
Thomas Kingsmill (1749)
Louis Mandrin (1755)
Michael McAuliffe (1993), drug trafficking
Marco Archer Moreira (2015), drug trafficking
Shanmugam Murugesu (2005), drug trafficking
Van Tuong Nguyen, (2005), drug trafficking
Abdul Kahar Othman (2022), drug trafficking
Akmal Shaikh (2009), drug trafficking
Kalwant Singh (2022), drug trafficking
Myuran Sukumaran (2015), drug trafficking
Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi (2007), drug trafficking
Zahra Bahrami (2011), drug trafficking
Rozman Jusoh (1996), drug trafficking
Cheuk Mei-mei (1994), drug trafficking
Elke Tsang Kai-mong (1994), drug trafficking
Daniel Chan Chi-pun (1995), drug trafficking
Tong Ching-man (1995), drug trafficking
Poon Yuen-chung (1995), drug trafficking
Angel Mou Pui-peng (1995), drug trafficking
Vignes Mourthi (2003), drug trafficking
Yen May Woen (2004), drug trafficking
Mohamed Shalleh Abdul Latiff (2023), drug trafficking
Saridewi Djamani (2023), drug trafficking
Tangaraju Suppiah (2023), drug trafficking

Treason

Antonio Osorio de Acuña (1526)
John Amery (1945)
George Johnson Armstrong (1941)
Humphrey Arundell (1550)
Hristo Atanasov (1908)
Anthony Babington (1586)
John Baird (1820)
Thomas Baker (1381)
John Ball (1381)
John Ballard (1586)
Thomas Bates (1606)
Jerome Bellamy (1586)
Nikos Beloyannis (1952)
Lavrenty Beria (1953)
Thomas Blount (1400)
Jeremiah Brandreth (1817)
John Brown (1859)
Thomas Bryan (1921)
Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (1753)
Roger Casement (1916)
Thomas Cranmer (1556)
Niren Dasgupta (1915)
William Davidson (1820)
Edward Despard (1803)
Everard Digby (1606)
Dragutin Dimitrijević (1917)
Henry Donn (1586)
Patrick Doyle (1921)
José María de Torrijos y Uriarte (1831)
Guy Fawkes (1606)
Gratien Fernando (1942)
Cardinal John Fisher (1535)
Henri de Fleury de Coulan (1666)
Frank Flood (1921)
Jopie Fourie (1914)
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (1747)
Robert Gage (1586)
Joseph Garang (1971)
Deniz Gezmiş (1972)
John Grant (1606)
Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan (1401)
Fethi Gürcan (1964)
Jack Hall (1716)
Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle (1323)
Andrew Hardie (1820)
Cai Hesen (1931)
Milada Horáková (1950)
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1572)
John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford (1537)
Kanao Inouye (1947)
Baillie of Jerviswood (1684)
William Joyce (1946)
Robert Keyes (1606)
Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai (1941)
Stanisław Kunicki (1886)
William Laud (1645)
Christopher Layer (1723)
Vasil Levski (1873)
Samuel Lount (1838)
Johannes Lötter (1901)
Marinus van der Lubbe (1934)
Abdel Khaliq Mahjub (1971)
Peter Matthews (1838)
Afanasi Matushenko (1907)
Vuyisile Mini (1964)
Qazi Mohammad (1947)
Sir Thomas More (1535)
David Morgan (1746)
Mengistu Neway (1961)
Michel Ney (1815)
John Nisbet (1685)
Arnaldo Ochoa (1989)
José Olaya (1823)
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1619)
Anzavur Ahmed Pasha (1921)
Henry Pedris (1915)
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel (1799)
Vishnu Ganesh Pingle (1915)
Pir of Pagaro VI (1943)
Carmelo Borg Pisani (1942)
Louis Riel (1885)
Ambrose Rookwood (1606)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1953)
Bernard Ryan (1921)
Fahmi Said (1941)
Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh (1945)
Policarpa Salavarrieta (1817)
Mahmud Salman (1942)
Heba Selim (1974)
Kamil Shabib (1944)
Pyotr Schmidt (1906)
Theodore Schurch (1946)
Duncan Scott-Ford (1942)
Manoranjan Sengupta (1915)
Abu Taher (1976)
Arthur Thistlewood (1820)
Chidiock Tichborne (1586)
Francis Towneley (1746)
Thomas Usk (1388)
Andrey Vlasov (1946)
Perkin Warbeck (1499)
Richard Whiting (1539)
James Wilson (1820)
Robert Wintour (1606)
Thomas Wintour (1606)
John Wrawe (1382)
Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1554)

Witchcraft

See main article: List of people executed for witchcraft.

Other

Executed by Tudors

See main article: List of people executed by the Tudors.

Beheaded

See main article: List of people who were beheaded.

External links

USA Executions and Victims since 1977

Notes and References

Web site: Changing Attitudes . 2009-11-29 . Norris . David . 2009-05-17 . Public Address at the service to mark international day against homophobia in Christ Church Cathedral . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090606062927/http://www.senatordavidnorris.ie/ChangingAttitudesArticle.htm . 2009-06-06 .
http://www.jacopobonfadio.it/jacopo_bonfadio.html Official website commemorating 500 years since Bonfadio's birth
Tucker, Scott (1997). The Queer Question: Essays on Desire and Democracy. Boston: South End Press. . p. 46.
Book: Rocke, Michael. Forbidden Friendships, Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence. 1996. Oxford University Press. 24, 227, 356, 360. 0-19-512292-5. registration.
Book: Meyer, Michael J . Literature and Homosexuality . 2000 . Rodopi . 206. 90-420-0519-X . .
Jacob, Roger "Dominique Phinot", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed January 1, 2006), (subscription access)