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
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)
19th century
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
1950s King Faisal II of Iraq (1958) Dedan Kimathi (1957) Moshe Marzouk (1955) Juan José Valle (1956) 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
Mass murder
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 Bennie Demps (2000) Westley Allan Dodd (1993) first post-Gregg execution in Washington Martin Dumollard (1862) known as "the Monster of Montluel" Michael Durocher (1993) 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" James Waybern Hall (1946) 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)