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List of people who were executed

This is a list of people who were executed:

• Jack Agazarian
• Ignatius Kutu Acheampong
• Akwasi Afrifa
• Fred W.K. Akuffo
• Stephen Wayne Anderson
• Ion Antonescu
• Marie Antoinette
• Manuel Babbitt
• Jereboam O. Beauchamp
• Noah Beauchamp
• Yolande Beekman
• Nikos Beloyannis
• Robert Benoist
• Lavrenty Beria
• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Guy Biéler
• Maurice Bishop
• Denise Bloch
• Anne Boleyn
• William George Bonin
• Andrée Borrel
• Giordano Bruno
• Nikolay Bukharin
• Ted Bundy
• Nicolae Ceausescu
• King Charles I of England
• Dhananjoy Chatterjee
• André Chénier
• Caryl Chessman
• Andrei Chikatilo
• Galeazzo Ciano
• Flor Contemplacion
• Charlotte Corday
• Davy Crockett
• Madeleine Damerment
• Georges Danton
• Emilio De Bono
• Robert Erskine
• Guy Fawkes
• Bogdan Filov
• Wilhelm Frick
• John Wayne Gacy
• Juan Garza
• Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
• Gary Gilmore
• Olympe de Gouges
• Barbara Graham
• Jack Gilbert Graham
• William Grover-Williams
• Che Guevara
• Nathan Hale
• Robert Alton Harris
• Bruno Hauptmann
• Joe Hill
• Paul Jennings Hill
• Catherine Howard
• Agustín de Iturbide
• Noor Inyat Khan
• Jesus of Nazareth
• Joan of Arc
• William Kemmler
• Antoine Lavoisier
• King Louis XVI of France
• Cecily Lefort
• Vera Leigh
• John Kenneth Macalister
• Kevin Malone
• David Edward Mason
• Robert Lee Massie
• Maximilian of Mexico
• Timothy McVeigh
• Draza Mihailovic
• Miguel Miramón
• Francisco Morazán
• Thomas More
• Jean Moulin
• Benito Mussolini
• Imre Nagy
• Mohammad Najibullah
• Nicholas II and family
• Gilbert Norman
• Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
• Sonia Olschanezky
• Frank Pickersgill
• Harry Pierpont
• Eliane Plewman
• Vidkun Quisling
• Darrell Keith Rich
• Louis Riel
• Elise Rivet
• Mary Queen of Scots
• Maximilien Robespierre
• Madame Roland
• Lilian Rolfe
• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
• Elisabeth de Rothschild
• Diana Rowden
• Salem Ali Rubayyi
• Yvonne Rudelatt
• Aleksey Rykov
• Roméo Sabourin
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Ken Saro-Wiwa
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart
• Jaturun Siripongs
• Eddie Slovik
• Suzanne Spaak
• Aleksandur Stamboliyski
• Charles Starkweather
• Claus von Stauffenberg
• Violette Szabo
• Ferenc Szálasi
• Hannah Szenes
• Chidiock Tichborne
• Jozef Tiso
• Tiradentes
• Hideki Tojo
• Adam von Trott zu Solz
• Marinus van der Lubbe
• William Walker
• William Wallace
• Giuseppe Zangara

Other:

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

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

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