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)
 * Denise Bloch (1945)
 * Guy Biéler (1944)
 * 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)

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)
 * Madame Elisabeth (1793)
 * György Dózsa (1514)
 * Jean-Michel Duroy (1795)
 * 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)

Post 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)
 * 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
 * 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) most recent execution in Louisiana
 * Charu Chandra Bose (1909)
 * Khudiram Bose (1908)
 * 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)
 * 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
 * Flor Contemplación (1995)
 * James Copeland (1857)
 * Frank J. Coppola (1982) first post-Gregg execution in Virginia
 * James Corbitt (1950)
 * 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)
 * Ronnie Lee Gardner (2010) most recent execution in Utah
 * 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
 * Barbara Graham (1955)
 * John Grant (2021)
 * Jimmy Lee Gray (1983) first post-Gregg execution in Mississippi
 * 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)
 * Murray Hooper (2022) most recent execution in Arizona
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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 (2001)
 * 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 Charles 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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
 * 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)
 * 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) most recent execution in Indiana
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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"
 * 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)

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

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)

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

 * Roger Casement (1916) arms trafficking
 * Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers (1986), drug trafficking
 * Andrew Chan (2015), drug trafficking
 * Ong Ah Chuan (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

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 (1791)
 * 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)