# 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

* 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

## Espionage

* Jack Agazarian (1945)
* James J. Andrews (1862)
* Yolande Beekman (1944)
* Robert Benoist (1944)
* Guy Biéler (1944)
* Denise Bloch (1945)
* Carmelo Borg Pisani (1942)
* Andrée Borrel (1944)
* Roger Casement (1916)
* Madeleine Damerment (1944)
* Gratien Fernando (1942)
* Sasha Fillipov (1942)
* William Grover-Williams (1945)
* Nathan Hale (1776)
* Mata Hari (1917)
* Noor Inyat Khan (1944)
* Josef Jakobs (1941)
* Cecily Lefort (1945)
* Vera Leigh (1944)
* Carl Hans Lody (1914)
* John Kenneth Macalister (1944)
* Karl Heinrich Meier (1940)
* Gilbert Norman (1944)
* Sonia Olschanezky (1944)
* John Pendlebury (1941)
* Frank Pickersgill (1944)
* Eliane Plewman (1944)
* Richard Quirin (d, 1942)
* Karel Richard Richter (1941)
* Lilian Rolfe (1945)
* Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1953)
* Diana Rowden (1944)
* Yvonne Rudelatt (1945)
* Roméo Sabourin (1944)
* Heba Selim (1974)
* Suzanne Spaak (1944)
* Violette Szabo (1945)
* Hannah Szenes (1944)
* Josef Waldberg (1940)

## 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)

* Demetrius (330 BC)
* Panyassis (454 BC)
* Cleopatra Selene of Syria (69 BC)
* Longinus of Selinus (498)

### 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)

### Early Modern Era (1500–1800)

* Marie Antoinette (1793)
* Madame du Barry (1793)
* Micaela Bastidas (1781)
* Frei Caneca (1825)
* Ștefan Cantacuzino (1716)
* King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1649)
* Cuauhtémoc (1525)
* Daskalogiannis (1771)
* György Dózsa (1514)
* Jean-Michel Duroy (1795)
* Madame Elisabeth (1793)
* Matija Gubec (1573)
* Kryštof Harant (1621)
* Wijard Jelckama (1523)
* Matthew Keogh (1798)
* Jan Sladký Kozina (1695)
* King Louis XVI of France (1793)
* Jacques Vincent Ogé (1791)
* Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1619)
* Jöran Persson (1568)
* Maximilien Robespierre (1794)
* Crown Prince Sado (1762)
* Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1794)
* Tiradentes (1792)
* Dun Mikiel Xerri (1799)

### 19th century

* Abushiri (1889)
* John Brown (1859)
* Federico Fernández Cavada (1871)
* Athanasios Diakos (1821)
* Tsanko Dyustabanov (1876)
* Robert Emmet (1803)
* Charles Hindelang (1839)
* Andreas Hofer (1810)
* Agustín de Iturbide (1823)
* Georgi Izmirliev (1876)
* Hermann Jellinek (1848)
* Peer Ali Khan (1857)
* François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier (1839)
* Muhammad Ali Madali (1898)
* Maximilian of Mexico (1867)
* Miguel Miramón (1867)
* Francisco Morazán (1842)
* Joachim Murat (1815)
* Bhima Nayak (1876)
* Hassan bin Omari (1895)
* Gabriel Prosser (1800)
* Mateo Pumacahua (1815)
* José Rizal (1896)
* Thomas Russell (1803)
* Biswanath Sardar (1808)
* Ram Baksh Singh (1857)
* Hong Tianguifu (1864)
* William Walker (1860)
* Henry Wirz (1865)

### 1900s

* Peter Handcock (1902)
* Harry "Breaker" Morant (1902)
* Gideon Scheepers (1902)

### 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)

### 1940s

* Ion Antonescu (1946)
* Eugen Bolz (1945)
* Kurt Daluege (1946)
* Alois Eliáš (1942)
* Bogdan Filov (1945)
* Hans Frank (1946)
* Wilhelm Frick (1946)
* Amon Göth (1946)
* Arthur Greiser (1946)
* Irma Grese (1945)
* Alfred Jodl (1946)
* Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1946)
* Wilhelm Keitel (1946)
* Komarudin (1949)
* Pierre Laval (1945)
* Draža Mihailović (1946)
* Arndt Pekurinen (1944)
* Vidkun Quisling (1945)
* Joachim von Ribbentrop (1946)
* Alfred Rosenberg (1946)
* Fritz Sauckel (1946)
* Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1946)
* Eddie Slovik (1945)
* Julius Streicher (1946)
* Ferenc Szálasi (1946)
* Jozef Tiso (1947)
* Hideki Tōjō (1948)
* Tomoyuki Yamashita (1946)

### 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

* Adolf Eichmann (1962)
* Ernesto Guevara (1967)
* Évariste Kimba (1966)
* Patrice Lumumba (1961)
* Adnan Menderes (1961)
* Hasan Polatkan (1961)
* Chris Soumokil (1966)
* Fatin Rüştü Zorlu (1961)

### 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

* Hameed Baloch (1981)
* Maurice Bishop (1983)
* Elena Ceaușescu (1989)
* Nicolae Ceaușescu (1989)
* Diarra Traoré (1985)
* Henri Zongo (1989)

### Since 1990

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

## Murder

* Zainal Abidin Abdul Malik (1996)
* Shaiful Edham bin Adam (1999)
* Ariffin Agas (2002)
* Jack Alderman (2008)
* Clarence Ray Allen (2006) most recent execution in California
* Peter Anthony Allen (1964) one of the last two executions in the UK
* Johan Alfred Ander (1910) last execution in Sweden
* Sunny Ang (1967)
* James Arcene (1885)
* Ahmad Najib Aris (2016)
* Herbert Rowse Armstrong (1922)
* Hesham Ashmawy (2020)
* Hıdır Aslan (1984) last execution in Turkey
* James Autry (1984)
* Jean-Charles-Alphonse Avinain (1867)
* Manny Babbitt (1999)
* Billy Bailey (1996)
* Wesley Baker (2005) last execution in Maryland
* John Battaglia (2018)
* Jereboam O. Beauchamp (1826)
* Noah Beauchamp (1842)
* Grete Beier (1908) last woman publicly executed in the Kingdom of Saxony
* Derek Bentley (1953) pardoned
* Rodney Berget (2018)
* Brandon Bernard (2020)
* Wilford Berry Jr. (1999) first post-Gregg execution in Ohio
* Bhabani Prasad Bhattacharya (1935)
* Manoranjan Bhattacharya (1932)
* Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya (1933)
* Kenneth Biros (2009) also rape, robbery, and sexual penetration
* Jesse Bishop (1979) first post-Gregg execution in Nevada
* Ramakrishna Biswas (1931)
* Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé (1851)
* Gerald Bordelon (2010)
* Charu Chandra Bose (1909)
* Khudiram Bose (1908)
* Alfred Bourgeois (2020)
* Charles Brooks Jr. (1982) first post-Gregg execution in Texas
* Cal Coburn Brown (2010) last execution in Washington
* Claude Buffet (1972)
* Henry John Burnett (1963) last execution in Scotland
* Edwin Bush (1961)
* Elizabeth Butchill (1780)
* Frederick Bywaters (1923)
* Charles Campbell (1994)
* Jérôme Carrein (1977)
* Beatrice Cenci (1599)
* Brajakishore Chakraborty (1934)
* Marco Allen Chapman (2008) most recent execution in Kentucky
* Dhananjoy Chatterjee (2004)
* Michael David Clagett (2000)
* Botak Chin (1981)
* Andrew Chou Hock Guan (1975)
* David Chou Hock Heng (1975)
* Pramod Ranjan Choudhury (1926)
* Styllou Christofi (1954)
* James Lee Clark (2007)
* Terry D. Clark (2001) first post-Gregg execution in New Mexico and last execution in New Mexico
* Robert Glen Coe (2000) first post-Gregg execution in Tennessee
* Wilbert Coffin (1956)
* Charles Coleman (1990) first post-Gregg execution in Oklahoma
* Robert Dale Conklin (2005)
* Flor Contemplación (1995)
* James Copeland (1857)
* Frank J. Coppola (1982) first post-Gregg execution in Virginia
* James Corbitt (1950)
* Joseph Edward Corcoran (2024)
* Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (1910)
* Ba Cụt (1956)
* Gary Lee Davis (1997) first post-Gregg execution in Colorado and last execution in Colorado
* David Thomas Dawson (2006) most recent execution in Montana
* John Dickman (1910)
* Hamida Djandoubi (1977) last execution in France
* Samuel Herbert Dougal (1903)
* Mrigendra Dutta (1933)
* Ruth Ellis (1955) last woman executed in the UK
* Gwynne Owen Evans (1964) one of the last two executions in the UK
* John Louis Evans (1983) first post-Gregg execution in Alabama
* Timothy Evans (1950) pardoned
* Jason Fairbanks (1801)
* Mona Fandey (2001)
* Samuel Flippen (2006) most recent execution in North Carolina
* Edmond Foley (1921)
* Francis Forsyth (1960)
* Francisco (1876) last execution in Brazil (former Empire of Brazil)
* Sidney Harry Fox (1930)
* Robert Alan Fratta (2023)
* Ronnie Lee Gardner (2010)
* Micheal Anak Garing (2019)
* Juan Garza (2001)
* Nirmal Jibon Ghosh (1934)
* Gary Gilmore (1977) first post-Gregg execution in Utah and in the United States
* Lewis Eugene Gilbert (2003)
* Barbara Graham (1955)
* John Grant (2021)
* Jimmy Lee Gray (1983) first post-Gregg execution in Mississippi
* Carey Dale Grayson (2024)
* Oswald Grey (1962)
* Biren Datta Gupta (1910)
* Dinesh Gupta (1931)
* Orlando Cordia Hall (2020)
* James Hanratty (1962)
* Donald Harding (1992) first post-Gregg execution in Arizona
* Frederick John Harris (1965)
* Robert Alton Harris (1992) first post-Gregg execution in California
* Bruno Hauptmann (1936)
* Haw Tua Tau (1982)
* Neville Heath (1946)
* Gary M. Heidnik (1999) most recent execution in Pennsylvania
* Dustin Higgs (2021) most recent execution by the United States federal government
* Joe Hill (1915)
* Paul Jennings Hill (2003)
* Taberon Honie (2024) most recent execution in Utah
* Murray Hooper (2022)
* Mark Hopkinson (1992) first post-Gregg execution in Wyoming and last execution in Wyoming
* Walter Horsford (1898)
* Took Leng How (2006)
* James W. Hutchins (1984) first post-Gregg execution in North Carolina
* James Inglis (1951)
* Paul Irniger (1939)
* Kho Jabing (2016)
* Mohammed Ali bin Johari (2008)
* Corey Johnson (2021)
* Ernest Lee Johnson (2021)
* Shannon Johnson (2012) last execution in Delaware
* Louis Jones Jr. (2003)
* Quintin Jones (2021)
* Juliana (ca. 1542)
* Muhammad Kadar (2015)
* Michalis Karaolis (1956)
* İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1973)
* Marvallous Keene (2009)
* Ned Kelly (1880) and armed robbery
* William Kemmler (1890)
* Thomas Kent (1916)
* Charles Kerins (1944)
* Karl-Otto Koch (1945)
* François Claudius Koenigstein (1892)
* S. Nagarajan Kuppusamy (1999)
* Pierre François Lacenaire (1836)
* LaGrand brothers (1999)
* Lela Pandak Lam (1877)
* Donnie Cleveland Lance (2020)
* Jeffrey Landrigan (2010)
* Terry Langford (1998)
* Lau Lee Peng (2000)
* William Emmett LeCroy Jr. (2020)
* Daniel Lewis Lee (2020)
* Ledell Lee (2017)
* Antoine Léger (1824)
* Leong Siew Chor (2007)
* Anthony Ler (2002)
* Teresa Lewis (2010)
* José Gregorio Liendo (1973)
* Adrian Lim (1988) notorious child killer in Singapore
* Lim Chin Chong (1998)
* Peter Lim Swee Guan (1975)
* Raymond Lisenba (1942) last execution by hanging in California
* Clayton Lockett (2014)
* Howard Long (1939) last execution in New Hampshire
* Theerasak Longji (2018) most recent execution in Thailand
* Johannes Lötter (1901)
* Arthur Lucas (1962) one of the last two executions in Canada
* Daryl Mack (2006) most recent execution in Nevada
* Patrick Maher (1921)
* Solomon Mahlangu (1979)
* Mahsuri (1819)
* Kelvin Malone (1999)
* Mampuru II (1883)
* Michael Manning (1954) last execution in the Republic of Ireland
* Leslie Dale Martin (2002)
* Jason Massey (2001)
* Robert Lee Massie (2001)
* Mahmood Hussein Mattan (1952) pardoned
* Robert McGladdery (1961) last execution in Northern Ireland
* Dennis McGuire (2014)
* Duncan McKenzie (1995) first post-Gregg execution in Montana
* Harold McQueen Jr. (1997) first post-Gregg execution in Kentucky
* Daisy de Melker (1932)
* George Mercer (1989) first post-Gregg execution in Missouri
* Louisa May Merrifield (1953)
* Anthony Miller (1960) last teenager executed in the UK
* Vuyisile Mini (1964)
* Lezmond Mitchell (2020)
* Anantahari Mitra (1926)
* Benjamin Moloise (1985)
* Lisa Marie Montgomery (2021)
* Thomas Hartley Montgomery (1873) only Irish policeman sentenced to death for murder
* Carey Dean Moore (2018) most recent execution in Nebraska
* Harry Charles Moore (1997) most recent execution in Oregon
* Patrick Moran (1921)
* William Morva (2017) last execution in Virginia
* Leon Moser (1995)
* Norishyam s/o Mohamed Ali (1999)
* Shukri Mustafa (1978)
* Mun Se-gwang (1974)
* Khwan-On Natthaphon (2002)
* Keith Dwayne Nelson (2020)
* Hester Rebecca Nepping (1812)
* Susan Newell (1923) last woman executed in Scotland
* Solomon Ngobeni (1989) last execution in South Africa
* Oh Laye Koh (1995)
* Harold Lamont Otey (1994) first post-Gregg execution in Nebraska
* Gary Otte (2017)
* Freddie Eugene Owens (2024)
* Elijah Page (2007) first post-Gregg execution in South Dakota
* Anath Bondhu Panja (1933)
* Zsiga Pankotia (1961)
* Russell Pascoe (1963)
* Ronald Phillips (2017)
* Harry Pierpont (1934)
* Guenther Podola (1959) last execution in the UK for the murder of a policeman
* Victor Prévost (1880)
* Wesley Ira Purkey (2020)
* Willie James Pye (2024)
* Christian Ranucci (1976)
* Kanesan Ratnam (2003)
* Charles Rhines (2019) most recent execution in South Dakota
* Paul Ezra Rhoades (2011)
* Joseph Riaud (1876)
* James Terry Roach (1986)
* Alfred Rouse (1931)
* Ramkrishna Roy (1934)
* Buck Ruxton (1936)
* Sacco and Vanzetti (1927)
* Gopinath Saha (1924)
* Ahmed Salim (2024)
* August Sangret (1943)
* Utuwankande Sura Saradiel (1864) and armed robbery
* Richard Schuh (1949)
* Jay D. Scott (2001)
* Frederick Seddon (1912)
* Joseph Carl Shaw (1985) first post-Gregg execution in South Carolina
* Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (1760)
* Baikuntha Shukla (1934)
* Roshan Singh (1927)
* Bhagat Singh (1931)
* Sukhdev (1931)
* Shivaram Rajguru (1931)
* Ahmad Isma'il 'Uthman Saleh (2000)
* Võ Thị Sáu (1952)
* Boysie Singh (1957)
* Jaturun Siripongs (1999)
* James Smith (1962)
* James Edward Smith (1990)
* John Eldon Smith (1983) first post-Gregg execution in Georgia
* Kenneth Eugene Smith (2024) first execution by nitrogen hypoxia
* Sandra Smith (1989) last woman executed in South Africa
* John Spenkelink (1979) first post-Gregg execution in Florida
* John Frederick Stockwell (1934)
* Robert Austin Sullivan (1983)
* John Edward Swindler (1990) first post-Gregg execution in Arkansas
* Tan Chee Wee (2004)
* Tan Kheng Ann (1965) mastermind of the Pulau Senang prison riots, which led to four murders of prison officers and the subsequent executions of Tan and 17 other rioters
* Teo Boon Ann (1990)
* Teo Kim Hong (1996)
* Steven Ray Thacker (2013)
* John Thanos (1994) first post-Gregg execution in Maryland
* Edith Thompson (1923)
* Thomas Martin Thompson (1998)
* Norman Thorne (1925)
* Maksa Tohaiee (1993)
* Too Yin Sheong (1999)
* Thomas Traynor (1921)
* Karla Faye Tucker (1998)
* Ronald Turpin (1962) one of the last two executions in Canada
* Robert Van Hook (2018) most recent execution in Ohio
* Christopher Vialva (2020)
* Hans Vollenweider (1940) last execution in Switzerland
* Charles Walker (1990) first post-Gregg execution in Illinois
* Berthold Wehmeyer (1949)
* Keith Wells (1994) first post-Gregg execution in Idaho
* Thomas Whelan (1921)
* Jerry White (1995)
* Alfred Charles Whiteway (1953)
* Dennis Whitty (1963)
* Keith Daniel Williams (1996)
* Marcel Wayne Williams (2017)
* Robert E. Williams (1997)
* Robert Wayne Williams (1983) first post-Gregg execution in Louisiana
* Thomas Williams (1942)
* Rhoda Willis (1907) last woman executed in Wales
* Mimi Wong, the first female offender to be executed in Singapore since its independence in 1965 (1973)
* Joseph Wood (2014)
* Nathaniel Woods (2020)
* Eric Wrinkles (2009)
* Edmund Zagorski (2018)
* Keith Zettlemoyer (1995) first post-Gregg execution in Pennsylvania
* William G. Zuern Jr. (2004)

### Mass murder

* Floyd Allen (1913)
* Ali Amrozi bin Haji Nurhasyim (2008)
* Fritz Angerstein (1925)
* Annice (1828)
* Shoko Asahara (2018)
* Bai Ningyang (2006)
* Peter Barnes (1940)
* Michael Barrett (1868) last public execution in the UK
* Bangla Bhai (2007)
* Dominick Bodkin (1740)
* Bernard Bolender (1995)
* Vernon Booher (1929)
* Lester Bower (2015)
* Earl Bramblett (2003)
* Arthur Brown Jr. (2023)
* John Brown (1859)
* Richard Burgess (1866)
* Abel Clemmons (1806)
* Robert Raymond Cook (1960)
* William Cook (1952)
* Manuel Martínez Coronado (1998)
* Ditbardh and Josef Cuko (1992)
* Frederick Bailey Deeming (1892)
* Marion Butler Dudley (2006)
* Seiichi Endo (2018)
* Samuel Ferguson (1865)
* Giuseppe Marco Fieschi (1836)
* Marvin Francois (1985)
* James Governor (1901)
* Jack Gilbert Graham (1957)
* Joseph-Albert Guay (1951)
* Joseph Hamilton (1906)
* Robert Wayne Harris (2012)
* George Hassell (1928)
* Olga Hepnarová (1975)
* Richard Hickock (1965)
* Kenichi Hirose (2018)
* Daniel Hittle (2000)
* Daryl Holton (2007)
* Dustin Honken (2020)
* Hsu Tung-chih (1984)
* Huda bin Abdul Haq (2008)
* Yoshihiro Inoue (2018)
* Jin Ruchao (2001)
* Steven Timothy Judy (1981) first post-Gregg execution in Indiana
* Ajmal Kasab (2012)
* Marcin Kasprzak (1905)
* Toivo Koljonen (1943)
* James Lammers (1952)
* John D. Lee (1877)
* Vladimír Lulek (1989)
* Jeffrey Lundgren (2006)
* Vassilis Lymberis (1972) last execution in Greece
* Ma Jiajue (2004)
* Wiremu Kīngi Maketū (1842)
* Zainuzzaman Mohamad Jasadi (2001)
* Luis Monge (1967)
* James McCormick (1940)
* Timothy McVeigh (2001) first post-Gregg execution by the United States federal government
* Anatoly Nagiyev (1981)
* Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri (1997)
* Jay Wesley Neill (2002)
* Tomomitsu Niimi (2018)
* John Filip Nordlund (1900) last execution by axe in Sweden
* Kazuaki Okazaki (2018)
* Carl Panzram (1930)
* Marguerite Pitre (1953)
* Gilbert Postelle (2022)
* Saeed al-Qashash (1999)
* Giannis and Thymios Retzos (1930)
* Généreux Ruest (1952)
* Imam Samudra (2008)
* Shi Yuejun (2008)
* Andrey Shpagonov (1995)
* George David Silva (1912)
* Ronald Gene Simmons (1990)
* Clay King Smith (2001)
* Perry Smith (1965)
* Roger Dale Stafford (1995)
* Mamoru Takuma (2004)
* Abraham Thomas (1958)
* Masami Tsuchiya (2018)
* Wang Binyu (2005)
* Wang Xiwen (1981)
* Coy Wayne Wesbrook (2016)
* William James Williams (2005)
* Hastings Arthur Wise (2005)
* Yan Yanming (2005)
* Yang Jia (2008)
* Yang Zanyun (2019)
* Thomas Young (1959)
* Andrew Zondo (1986)

### 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"
* Iskandar Rahmat (2025)
* 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"

## Piracy

* José Joaquim Almeida (1832)
* Peter Alston (1804)
* John Auger (1718)
* Joseph Baker (1800)
* Joseph Bannister (1687)
* Eli Boggs (1861)
* Stede Bonnet (1718)
* Satyendranath Bosu (1908)
* Joseph Bradish (1700)
* Nicolas Brigaut (1686)
* James Browne (1677)
* Roberto Cofresí (1825)
* Jacques Colaert (1600)
* Richard Coyle (1738)
* Mary Critchett (1729)
* Alexander Dalzeel (1715)
* Robert Deal (1721)
* Kanailal Dutta (1908)
* Alv Erlingsson (1290)
* John Fenn (1723)
* William Fly (1726)
* Charles Gibbs (1831)
* Pedro Gilbert (1835)
* John Golden (1694)
* Nathaniel Gordon (1862)
* John Gow (1725)
* Thomas Green (1705)
* Jean Baptiste Guedry (1726)
* Louis Guittar (1700)
* Charles Harris (1723)
* Klein Henszlein (1573)
* David Herriot (1718)
* Albert W. Hicks (1860)
* Hendrick van Hoven (1699)
* Calico Jack (1720)
* Daniel Johnson (1675)
* Peter Johnson (1672)
* Edward Jordan (1809)
* John Julian (1733)
* William Kidd (1701)
* James Kelly (1701)
* Walter Kennedy (1721)
* Olivier Levasseur (1730)
* Narciso López (1851)
* Peter Love (1610)
* Matthew Luke (1722)
* Philip Lyne (1726)
* Simon Mascarino (1721)
* Samuel Mason (1803)
* Gottfried Michaelsen (1402)
* Christopher Moody (1722)
* Duncan Mackintosh (1689)
* Jan Mendoses (1615)
* Andrea Morisco (1308)
* Pedro Ñancúpel (1888)
* John Oxenham (1580)
* Cabeza de Perro (18??)
* John Prie (1727)
* John Quelch (1704)
* Walter Raleigh (1618)
* Stenka Razin (1671)
* Philip Roche (1723)
* James Skyrme (1722)
* Gustav Skytte (1663)
* Benito de Soto (1830)
* Filippo di Piero Strozzi (1582)
* Thomas Sutton (1722)
* Jacques Tavernier (1673)
* Joseph Thompson (1719)
* Jean Tristan (1693)
* Charles Vane (1721)
* Thomas Vaughan (1696)
* Rachel Wall (1789) last woman executed in Massachusetts
* Hennig Wichmann (1402)
* Magister Wigbold (1401)
* Nicholas Woodall (c.1718)
* Wang Zhi (1560)
* Chen Zuyi (1407)

## 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)

* Otto Ballerstedt
* Herbert von Bose
* Karl Ernst
* Fritz Gerlich
* Karl-Günther Heimsoth
* Edmund Heines
* Peter von Heydebreck
* Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald
* Edgar Jung
* Gustav Ritter von Kahr
* Erich Klausener
* Adalbert Probst
* Ernst Röhm
* Kurt von Schleicher
* Emil Sembach
* Bernhard Stempfle
* Gregor Strasser

### Executed during the Great Purge

* Alexander Abramov-Mirov (1937)
* Valentine Adler (1942)
* Maksim Ammosov (1938)
* Zigmas Angarietis (1940)
* Ecaterina Arbore (1937)
* Sanjar Asfendiyarov (1938)
* Urunboi Ashurov (1938)
* Kaikhaziz Atabayev (1938)
* Nedirbay Aytakov (1938)
* Isaac Babel (1940)
* Ivan Bakayev (1936)
* Alexey Bakulin (1939)
* Mikhail Batorsky (1938)
* Alexander Beloborodov (1938)
* Boris Berman (1939)
* Matvei Berman (1939)
* Konon Berman-Yurin (1936)
* Sergei Bessonov (1941)
* Anastasia Bitsenko (1938)
* Waclaw Bogucki (1937)
* Vladimir Bogushevsky (1939)
* Mikhail Boguslavsky (1937)
* Oskar Böhme (1938)
* Georgy Bondar (1939)
* Volf Bronner (1939)
* Andrei Bubnov (1938)
* Gavril Buciușcan (1937)
* Nikolay Bukharin (1938)
* Pavel Bulanov (1938)
* Samson Chanba (1937)
* Virendranath Chattopadhyaya (1937)
* Mikhail Chernov (1938)
* Vlas Chubar (1939)
* Rose Cohen (1937)
* Vladimir Ćopić (1939)
* Nikolay Dobrokhotov (1938)
* Yakov Drobnis (1937)
* Ehsanollah Khan Dustdar (1939)
* Sholom Dvolajckij (1937)
* Roberts Eidemanis (1937)
* Robert Eikhe (1940)
* Efrem Eshba (1939)
* Boris Feldman (1937)
* Abdurauf Fitrat (1938)
* George Fles (1939)
* Leo Flieg (1939)
* Lovett Fort-Whiteman (1939)
* Mikhail Frinovsky (1940)
* Aleksei Gastev (1939)
* Grigori Grinko (1938)
* Abraham Guloyan (1937)
* Abdurrahim Hojibayev (1933)
* Akmal Ikramov (1938)
* Vladimir Ivanov (1938)
* Abdullah Kadiri (1938)
* Karl Kahl (1938)
* Boris Kamkov (1937)
* Lev Karakhan (1937)
* Grigory Khakhanyan (1939)
* Karim Khakimov (1938)
* Aghasi Khanjian (1936)
* Fayzulla Khodzhayev (1938)
* Lazar Kogan (1939)
* Mikhail Koltsov (1940)
* August Kork (1937)
* Boris Kornilov (1938)
* Aleksandr Kosarev (1939)
* Stanisław Kosior (1939)
* Nikolai Krestinsky (1938)
* Pyotr Kryuchkov (1938)
* Béla Kun (1938)
* Sariya Lakoba (1936)
* Samuil Lehtțir (1937)
* Lev Levin (1938)
* Solomon Levit (1938)
* Ghulam Ambia Khan Lohani (1938)
* Nusratullo Maksum (1937)
* Vsevolod Meyerhold (1940)
* Levon Mirzoyan (1939)
* Nikolay Matorin (1936)
* Sergei Mrachkovsky (1936)
* Anna Mukhamedov (1938)
* Abani Mukherjee (1937)
* Nikolay Muralov (1937)
* Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (1940)
* Osip Piatnitsky (1938)
* Boris Pinson (1936)
* Fritz Platten (1942)
* Dmitry Pletnyov (1941)
* Pavel Postyshev (1939)
* Boris Pozern (1939)
* Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1937)
* Vitaly Primakov (1937)
* Vitovt Putna (1937)
* Georgy Pyatakov (1937)
* Karl Radek (1939)
* Abdullo Rakhimbayev (1938)
* Christian Rakovsky (1941)
* Nikolay Rattel (1939)
* Mark Rein (1937)
* Hermann Remmele (1939)
* Barbora Rezlerová-Švarcová (1941)
* Arkady Rosengolts (1938)
* Aleksey Rykov (1938)
* Timofei Sapronov (1937)
* Murat Salihov (1938)
* Rudolf Samoylovich (1939)
* Filimon Săteanu (1937)
* Leonid Serebryakov (1937)
* Dmitry Shakhovskoy (1939)
* Vasily Sharangovich (1938)
* Alexander Shliapnikov (1937)
* Shirinsho Shotemur (1937)
* Alexander Shotman (1937)
* Ivar Smilga (1938)
* Aleksandr Petrovich Smirnov (1938)
* Ivan Smirnov (1936)
* Vladimir Smirnov (1937)
* Pyotr Smorodin (1939)
* Jan Sten (1937)
* Boris Stomonyakov (1940)
* Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev (1940)
* Avetis Sultan-Zade (1938)
* Béla Székely (1939)
* Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan (1936)
* Boris Tolpygo (1939)
* Mikhail Trilisser (1940)
* Vladimir Tsyganko (1938)
* Kasym Tynystanov (1938)
* Ieronim Uborevich (1937)
* Nikolai Uglanov (1937)
* Abdukadyr Urazbekov (1938)
* Zinovy Ushakov (1940)
* Aleksandr Uspensky (1940)
* Iosif Vareikis (1938)
* Nikolai Efimovich Varfolomeev (1939)
* Mikhail Vasilyev-Yuzhin (1937)
* Ivan Voronaev 9d. 1937)
* Alexei Voshchakin (1937)
* Gaspar Voskanyan (1937)
* Genrikh Yagoda (1938)
* Iona Yakir (1937)
* Varvara Yakovleva (1941)
* Victor Yartsev (1940)
* Grigory Yevdokimov (1936)
* Yu Xiusong (1939)
* Aleksandr Yegorov (1939)
* Yefim Yevdokimov (1940)
* Nikolai Yezhov (1940)
* Abdulhamid Yunusov (1938)
* Pyotr Zalutsky (1937)
* Isaak Zelensky (1938)
* Berthe Zimmermann (1937)
* Grigory Zinoviev (1936)
* Dimitar Zlatarev (1937)
* Prokopy Zubarev (1938)

### 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 (c. 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 (c. AD 30–36) sedition
* John Lambert (1538) heresy
* Hugh Latimer (1555) heresy
* Sir Thomas More (1535) religious dissent
* Saint Paul (c. AD 64)
* Saint Peter (c. 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 (c.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
* Jacopo Bonfadio (1550), Italian humanist and historian
* Francesco Calcagno (1550), Venician Franciscan friar.
* Giovanni di Giovanni (1365), 15-year-old Italian boy charged with being "a public and notorious passive sodomite"
* Lisbetha Olsdotter (1679), Swedish cross-dresser and early female soldier (disguised as a man).
* Dominique Phinot (c.1556), French composer of the Renaissance
* 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

* Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni (2005)
* Leo Echegaray (1999)
* Li Feng (2003)
* Luo Yanlin (2008)
* Ronald Wolfe (1964)

#### 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)