List of people who were executed

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

Arson and sabotage

Assassination

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

Firearm offences

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

Ancient Times (pre AD 500)

Pre-Modern Era (500-1500)

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

Since 1990

Murder

Serial killers

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

Political opponents

Political purges

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

Executed members of the [20 July plot]

Prisoners of war

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

Religious figures

Rabbi Akiva religious dissident
Avvakum religious dissent
Saint Joan of Arc supposed heresy
Bartholomew
Qutubuddin Shaheed Dawoodi Bohra Dai al Mutlaq
Giordano Bruno heresy
Thomas Cranmer heresy
Cardinal John Fisher religious dissent
Jan Hus heresy
Jacob Hutter heresy
Saint James the Great
Jesus of Nazareth sedition
John Lambert heresy
Hugh Latimer heresy
Sir Thomas More religious dissent
Saint Paul
Saint Peter
Philip the Apostle
Michael Servetus heresy
Edward Wightman heresy
Lucilio Vanini apostasy

Robbery and theft

Manoranjan Bhattacharya armed robbery
Ramprasad Bismil, armed robbery
Joseph Blake
Spence Broughton
Johannes Bückler
Caryl Chessman
Thomas Cox
Isaac Darkin
Jenny Diver
Claude Duval
Barbara Erni, confidence trickster
Richard Ferguson
James Field
James Fitzpatrick
Eppelein von Gailingen
Captain Gallagher
Dimitar Obshti
Neesy O'Haughan
Captain Will Hollyday
Luke Hutton
Alexandru and Paul Ioanid
Constantia Jones
Thomas Edward Ketchum
Ashfaqulla Khan
Rajendra Lahiri
José Gregorio Liendo armed robbery
George Lyon
James MacLaine
Paulus Hector Mair, embezzlement of public funds
Étienne Monier
Orxines
Ishola Oyenusi multiple counts of armed robbery and carjacking
Robert Palin
John Poulter
John Rann
Jakob "Hannikel" Reinhard
Biswanath Sardar
Jack Sheppard
Henry Simms
Robert Snooks
Amy Spain, last female slave executed in the United States
William Spiggot
Dick Turpin
Jane Voss
Jonathan Wild, corruption
Ann Wyley, only black person executed in Michigan

Sexual offences

Homosexuality

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

Sexual assault

Rape

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

Paedophiles

Other sex offences

Claudine de Culam bestiality
Thomas Granger bestiality
Atefeh Rajabi adultery

Smuggling

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