This is a list of people who were executed:

• Ignatius Kutu Acheampong
• Akwasi Afrifa
• Jack Agazarian
• Fred Akuffo
• Stephen Wayne Anderson
• Ion Antonescu
• Marie Antoinette
• Manuel Babbitt
• Jereboam O. Beauchamp
• Noah Beauchamp
• Yolande Beekman
• Nikos Beloyannis
• Robert Benoist
• Derek Bentley
• Lavrenty Beria
• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Guy Biéler
• Maurice Bishop
• Denise Bloch
• Anne Boleyn
• William George Bonin
• Andrée Borrel
• Giordano Bruno
• Nikolay Bukharin
• Ted Bundy
• Frederick Bywaters
• Elena Ceausescu
• Nicolae Ceausescu
• King Charles I of England
• Dhananjoy Chatterjee
• André Chénier
• Caryl Chessman
• Andrei Chikatilo
• John Christie
• Galeazzo Ciano
• William Coffin
• Flor Contemplacion
• Charlotte Corday
• Doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen
• Davy Crockett
• Madeleine Damerment
• Georges Danton
• Emilio De Bono
• Adolf Eichmann
• Ruth Ellis
• Robert Erskine
• Timothy Evans
• Jason Fairbanks
• Guy Fawkes
• Bogdan Filov
• Wilhelm Frick
• John Wayne Gacy
• Juan Garza
• Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, (Iran, September 15, 1982)
• Gary Gilmore
• Olympe de Gouges
• Barbara Graham
• Jack Gilbert Graham
• William Grover-Williams
• Che Guevara
• Nathan Hale
• James Hanratty
• Robert Alton Harris
• Bruno Hauptmann
• Joe Hill
• Paul Jennings Hill
• Amir Abbas Hoveida, (Iran, April 7, 1979)
• Catherine Howard
• Agustín de Iturbide
• Zhila Izadi
• Joan of Arc
• Lev Kamenev
• Noor Inyat Khan
• Ned Kelly
• William Kemmler
• Maximilian Kolbe
• LaGrand brothers
• Antoine Lavoisier
• Cecily Lefort
• Vera Leigh
• King Louis XVI of France
• John Kenneth Macalister
• Kevin Malone
• David Edward Mason
• Robert Lee Massie
• Maximilian of Mexico
• Timothy McVeigh
• Draza Mihailovic
• Miguel Miramón
• Francisco Morazán
• St Thomas More
• Jean Moulin
• Benito Mussolini
• Imre Nagy
• Mohammad Najibullah
• Nguyen Van Lem a/k/a "Bay Lop"
• Nicholas II and family
• Gilbert Norman
• Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
• Sonia Olschanezky
• Arndt Pekurinen
• Frank Pickersgill
• Harry Pierpont
• Eliane Plewman
• Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
• Vidkun Quisling
• Atefeh Rajabi (Iran, September 17, 2004)
• Joachim von Ribbentrop
• Darrell Keith Rich
• Louis Riel
• Elise Rivet
• Mary Queen of Scots
• Maximilien Robespierre
• Madame Roland
• Lilian Rolfe
• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
• Elisabeth de Rothschild
• Diana Rowden
• Salem Ali Rubayyi
• Yvonne Rudelatt
• Aleksey Rykov
• Roméo Sabourin
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Louis de Saint-Just
• Ken Saro-Wiwa
• Michael Servetus
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart
• Jaturun Siripongs
• Eddie Slovik
• Suzanne Spaak
• Aleksandur Stamboliyski
• Charles Starkweather
• Claus von Stauffenberg
• Violette Szabo
• Ferenc Szálasi
• Hannah Szenes
• Edith Thompson
• Chidiock Tichborne
• Jozef Tiso
• Tiradentes
• Hideki Tojo
• Adam von Trott zu Solz
• Marinus van der Lubbe
• William Walker
• William Wallace
• Aileen Wuornos
• Giuseppe Zangara
• Gregory Zinoviev

Other:

• On March 5 1940, Stalin himself and other Soviet leaders signed the order to execute 25,700 Polish intelligentsia including 14,700 Polish prisoners of war.

• Concentration camps for Jews and other, "undesirables," also existed in Germany itself, and while not specifically designed for systematic extermination, many concentration camp prisoners died because of harsh conditions or were executed.

Related topics

• Capital punishment
• Capital punishment in the United Kingdom
• Capital punishment in the United States
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