# List of people executed in Romania

This is a list of people executed in Romania. The list includes judicial executions carried out on the territory of present-day Romania, whether by that state or its antecedents.

## Earlier jurisdictions

* Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526)
** György Dózsa, peasant revolt leader, July 20, 1514
* Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)
** Sándor Kendi, anti-Habsburg noble, August 30, 1594
** Balthasar Báthory, anti-Habsburg noble, September 11, 1594
** Farkas Kovacsóczy, anti-Habsburg noble, September 11, 1594
** István Jósika, statesman, September 11, 1598
** Starina Novak, prisoner of war, February 5, 1601
* Habsburg monarchy
** Horea and Cloșca, leaders of the Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan, February 28, 1785
** Norbert Ormay, colonel in the 1848 revolution, August 22, 1849
** The 13 Martyrs of Arad, generals in the 1848 revolution, October 6, 1849
* Moldavia
** Luca Arbore, diplomat, April 1523
** Bartolomeo Bruti, diplomat, 1591
** Andronikos Kantakouzenos, statesman, 1601
** Nichifor Beldiman, statesman, c. 1616
** Alexandru Coci, statesman, 1653
** Vasile Gheuca and Gavril Costachi, statesmen, 1680
** Manolache Bogdan and Ioniță Cuza, statesmen, August 18, 1778
* Wallachia
** Udrea Băleanu, statesman, c. May 1601
** Leca of Cătun, statesman, February or March 1616
** Hrizea of Bogdănei, pretender, April to September 1657
** Istratie Leurdeanu, statesman, 1658
** Diicul Buicescul, pretender, July 1659
** Constantin I Cantacuzino, statesman, 1663
** Staico Bucșanu [ro], statesman, June 7, 1693
* Ottoman Empire
** Lupu Mehedințeanu, statesman, 1618
** Constantine Hangerli, Prince of Wallachia, February 18, 1799
* Hungarian State
** Stephan Ludwig Roth, 1848 revolutionary, May 11, 1849
** Ioan Buteanu, 1848 revolutionary, May 23, 1849
* Austria-Hungary
** Emil Rebreanu, military officer, May 14, 1917

## Kingdom of Romania

* Filimon Sârbu, communist activist and anti-fascist militant, July 19, 1941
* Francisc Panet, communist activist, November 7, 1941
* Pompiliu Ștefu, communist activist and anti-fascist militant, March 28, 1942
* Nicolae Mohănescu, socialist activist and anti-fascist militant, 1942
* Petre Gheorghe, communist activist and anti-fascist militant, February 8, 1943
* Ion Antonescu, World War II-era dictator, June 1, 1946
* Mihai Antonescu, foreign minister under Ion Antonescu, June 1, 1946
* Gheorghe Alexianu, governor of Transnistria, June 1, 1946
* Constantin Vasiliu [ro], general and Gendermarie commander, June 1, 1946

## Communist period

* Nicolae Dabija, anti-communist resistance fighter (together with 6 other members of his group), October 28, 1949
* Remus Koffler, communist activist, April 17, 1954
* Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, purged justice minister, April 17, 1954
* Eugen Țurcanu, Pitești Prison figure, December 17, 1954
* Iosif Capotă, anti-communist resistance fighter, September 2, 1958
* Toma Arnăuțoiu, anti-communist resistance fighter (together with his brother and 14 other members of his group), July 18, 1959
* Oliviu Beldeanu [ro], lead participant in the 1955 seizure of the Romanian embassy in Bern, February 18, 1960
* Ioanid Gang, group of five bank robbers, 1960
* Gheorghe Arsenescu, anti-communist resistance fighter, May 29, 1962
* Ion Rîmaru, serial killer, October 23, 1971
* Gheorghe Ștefănescu, businessman convicted of economic crimes, December 14, 1981
* Ion Pistol, convicted murderer, May 12, 1987
* Vasile Trifan, convicted murderer, May 13, 1987

## Romanian Revolution

* Nicolae Ceaușescu, dictator, December 25, 1989
* Elena Ceaușescu, wife of Nicolae, December 25, 1989