- Mohammad Abdullah (d. 1871) assassination of John Paxton Norman
- Sher Ali Afridi (d. 1872) assassination of Viceroy Lord Mayo
- Pakhomy Andreyushkin (d. 1887) conspiracy to assassinate Russian Emperor Aleksandr III
- Narayan Apte (d. 1949) assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
- George Atzerodt (d. 1865) conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln
- John Bellingham (d. 1812) assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
- Eliyahu Bet-Zuri (d. 1945) assassination of Lord Moyne
- Mehmet Arif Bey (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- İsmail Canbulat Bey (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Mehmed Cavid Bey (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Mehmed Nâzım Bey (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Ziya Hurşit Bey (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Dmitry Bogrov (d. 1911) assassination of Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin
- Lee Bong-chang (d. 1932) attempted assassination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito
- Wilhelm Canaris (d. 1945) conspiracy to assassinate German Chancellor Adolf Hitler
- Madan Lal Dhingra (d. 1909) assassination of William Hutt Curzon Wyllie
- Reginald Dunne (d. 1922) assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson
- John Felton (d. 1628) assassination of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
- Vasily Generalov (d. 1887) conspiracy to assassinate Aleksandr III
- Nathuram Godse (d. 1949) assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
- Charles Guiteau (d. 1882) assassination of US President James A. Garfield
- Eliyahu Hakim (d. 1945) assassination of Lord Moyne
- David Herold (d. 1865) assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Ivan Kalyayev (d. 1905) assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
- Anant Laxman Kanhere (d. 1909) assassination of Collector A. M. T. Jackson
- Mirza Reza Kermani (d. 1896) assassination of Iranian Shah Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
- Nikolai Kibalchich (d. 1881) assassination of Russian Emperor Aleksandr II
- Kim Jae-gyu (d. 1980) assassination of South Korean President Park Chung-hee
- Vsevolod Lebedintsev (d. 1908) conspiracy to assassinate Russian Minister of Justice Ivan Shcheglovitov
- Naseeruddin Mauzi (d. 1920) assassination of Robert William Douglas Willoughby
- Hafız Mehmet (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Timofey Mikhailov (d. 1881) assassination of Aleksandr II
- Rajnarayan Mishra (d. 1944) assassination of Robert William Douglas Willoughby
- Vasili Osipanov (d. 1887) conspiracy to assassinate Aleksandr III
- Joseph O'Sullivan (d. 1922) assassination of Sir Henry Wilson
- Rüştü Pasha (d. 1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha
- Sophia Perovskaya (d. 1881) assassination of Aleksandr II
- Otto Planetta (d. 1934) assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
- Lewis Powell (d. 1865) conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and attempted assassination of US Secretary of State William Seward
- Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966) conspiracy to assassinate Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Nikolai Rysakov (d. 1881) assassination of Aleksandr II
- Karl Sack (d. 1945) conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler
- Petr Shevyrev (d. 1887) conspiracy to assassinate Aleksandr III
- Beant Singh (d. 1989) assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
- Kehar Singh (d. 1989) assassination of Indira Gandhi
- Satwant Singh (d. 1989) assassination of Indira Gandhi
- Udham Singh (d. 1940) assassination of Michael O'Dwyer
- Claus von Stauffenberg (d. 1944) attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler
- Adam von Trott zu Solz (d. 1944) conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler
- U Saw (d. 1948) assassination of Aung San
- Harikishan Talwar (d. 1931) attempted assassination of Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency
- Mary Surratt (d. 1865) assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Aleksandr Ulyanov (d. 1887) conspiracy to assassinate Aleksandr III
- Andrei Zhelyabov (d. 1881) assassination of Aleksandr II
- James J. Andrews (d. 1862)
- Carmelo Borg Pisani (d. 1942)
- Sasha Fillipov (d. 1942)
- Nathan Hale (d. 1776)
- Karl Heinrich Meier (d. 1940)
- Karel Richard Richter (d. 1941)
- Josef Waldberg (d. 1940)
- John Atherton (d. 1640), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore[1]
- James Pratt and John Smith (d. 1835), two London men who became the last two people to be executed for sodomy in the UK
- Peter Anthony Allen (d. 1964) one of the last two criminals executed in the UK
- James Arcene (d. 1885) and robbery
- Ahmad Najib Aris (d. 2016)
- Herbert Rowse Armstrong (d. 1922)
- Hesham Ashmawy (d. 2020)
- Hıdır Aslan (d. 1984) last criminal executed in Turkey
- Billy Bailey (d. 1996)
- Kevin Barry (d. 1920)
- John Battaglia (d. 2018)
- Jereboam O. Beauchamp (d. 1826)
- Noah Beauchamp (d. 1842)
- Grete Beier (d. 1908) the last woman to be publicly executed in the Kingdom of Saxony
- Derek Bentley (d. 1953) pardoned
- Brandon Bernard (d. 2020)
- Bhabani Prasad Bhattacharya (d. 1935)
- Manoranjan Bhattacharya (d. 1932) and armed robbery
- Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya (d. 1933)
- Kenneth Biros (d. 2009) also rape, robbery, and sexual penetration
- Ramakrishna Biswas (d. 1931)
- Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé (d. 1851)
- Charu Chandra Bose (d. 1909)
- Khudiram Bose (d. 1908)
- Claude Buffet (d. 1972)
- Henry John Burnett (d. 1963) last criminal executed in Scotland
- Edwin Bush (d. 1961)
- Elizabeth Butchill (d. 1780)
- Frederick Bywaters (d. 1923)
- Charles Campbell (d. 1994)
- Jérôme Carrein (d. 1977)
- Beatrice Cenci (d. 1599)
- Brajakishore Chakraborty (d. 1934)
- Dhananjoy Chatterjee (d. 2004)
- Botak Chin (d. 1981)
- Lim Chin Chong (d. 1998)
- Pramod Ranjan Choudhury (d. 1926)
- Styllou Christofi (d. 1954)
- James Lee Clark (d. 2007)
- Wilbert Coffin (d. 1956)
- Flor Contemplación (d. 1995)
- James Copeland (d. 1857)
- James Corbitt (d. 1950)
- Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (d. 1910)
- Ba Cụt (d. 1956)
- John Dickman (d. 1910)
- Samuel Herbert Dougal (d. 1903)
- Mrigendra Dutta (d. 1933)
- Ruth Ellis (d. 1955) last woman executed in the UK
- Gwynne Owen Evans (d. 1964) one of the last two criminals executed in the UK
- John Louis Evans (d. 1983)
- Timothy Evans (d. 1950) pardoned
- Jason Fairbanks (d. 1801)
- Mona Fandey (d. 2001)
- Edmond Foley (d. 1921)
- Francis Forsyth (d. 1960)
- Sidney Harry Fox (d. 1930)
- Juan Garza (d. 2001)
- Nirmal Jibon Ghosh (d. 1934)
- Gary Gilmore (d. 1977)
- Barbara Graham (d. 1955)
- Oswald Grey (d. 1962)
- Biren Datta Gupta (d. 1910)
- Dinesh Gupta (d. 1931)
- James Hanratty (d. 1962)
- Bruno Hauptmann (d. 1936)
- Frederick John Harris (d. 1965)
- Robert Alton Harris (d. 1992)
- Neville Heath (d. 1946)
- Dustin Higgs (d. 2021)
- Joe Hill (d. 1915)
- Paul Jennings Hill (d. 2003)
- Walter Horsford (d. 1898)
- Took Leng How (d. 2006)
- James Inglis (d. 1951)
- Paul Irniger (d. 1939)
- Kho Jabing (d. 2016)
- Juliana (d. ca. 1542)
- Michalis Karaolis (d. 1956)
- İbrahim Kaypakkaya (d. 1973)
- Ned Kelly (d. 1880) and armed robbery
- William Kemmler (d. 1890)
- Thomas Kent (d. 1916)
- Charles Kerins (d. 1944)
- François Claudius Koenigstein (d. 1892)
- Pierre François Lacenaire (d. 1836)
- LaGrand brothers (d. 2001) and armed robbery
- Lela Pandak Lam (d. 1877)
- Antoine Léger (d. 1824)
- Teresa Lewis (d. 2010)
- José Gregorio Liendo (d. 1973) also robbery and rape
- Adrian Lim (d. 1988) notorious child killer in Singapore
- Raymond Lisenba (d. 1942) last criminal executed by hanging in California
- Arthur Lucas (d. 1962) one of the last two criminals executed in Canada
- Patrick Maher (d. 1921)
- Solomon Mahlangu (d. 1979)
- Mahsuri (d. 1819)
- Mampuru II (d. 1883)
- Michael Manning (d. 1954) last criminal executed in the Republic of Ireland
- Mahmood Hussein Mattan (d. 1952) pardoned
- Robert McGladdery (d. 1961) last criminal executed in Northern Ireland
- Daisy de Melker (d. 1932)
- Louisa May Merrifield (d. 1953)
- Anthony Miller (d. 1960) last teenager executed in the UK
- Anantahari Mitra (d. 1926)
- Benjamin Moloise (d. 1985)
- Thomas Hartley Montgomery (d. 1873) only Irish policeman sentenced to death for murder
- Patrick Moran (d. 1921)
- Shukri Mustafa (d. 1978)
- Mun Se-gwang (d. 1974)
- Hester Rebecca Nepping (d. 1812)
- Susan Newell (d. 1923) last woman executed in Scotland
- Solomon Ngobeni (d. 1989) last criminal executed in South Africa
- Anath Bondhu Panja (d. 1933)
- Zsiga Pankotia (d. 1961)
- Russell Pascoe (d. 1963)
- Harry Pierpont (d. 1934)
- Guenther Podola (d. 1959) last person executed in the UK for the murder of a policeman
- Victor Prévost (d. 1880)
- Christian Ranucci (d. 1976)
- Joseph Riaud (d. 1876)
- Alfred Rouse (d. 1931)
- Ramkrishna Roy (d. 1934)
- Buck Ruxton (d. 1936)
- Sacco and Vanzetti (d. 1927)
- Gopinath Saha (d. 1924)
- August Sangret (d. 1943)
- Utuwankande Sura Saradiel (d. 1864) and armed robbery
- Richard Schuh (d. 1949)
- Frederick Seddon (d. 1912)
- Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (d. 1760)
- Baikuntha Shukla (d. 1934)
- Roshan Singh (d. 1927)
- Bhagat Singh (d. 1931)
- Sukhdev (d. 1931)
- Shivaram Rajguru (d. 1931)
- Ahmad Isma'il 'Uthman Saleh (d. 2000)
- Võ Thị Sáu (d. 1952)
- Boysie Singh (d. 1957)
- James Smith (d. 1962)
- Sandra Smith (d. 1989) last woman executed in South Africa
- John Frederick Stockwell (d. 1934)
- Edith Thompson (d. 1923)
- Norman Thorne (d. 1925)
- Thomas Traynor (d. 1921)
- Karla Faye Tucker (d. 1998)
- Ronald Turpin (d. 1962) one of the last two criminals executed in Canada
- Berthold Wehmeyer (d. 1949)
- Thomas Whelan (d. 1921)
- Jerry White (d. 1995)
- Alfred Charles Whiteway (d. 1953)
- Dennis Whitty (d. 1963)
- Thomas Williams (d. 1942)
- Rhoda Willis (d. 1907) last woman executed in Wales
- Edmund Zagorski (d. 2018)
Mass murder
edit- Floyd Allen (d. 1913)
- Ali Amrozi bin Haji Nurhasyim (d. 2008)
- Fritz Angerstein (d. 1925)
- Annice (d. 1828)
- Shoko Asahara (d. 2018)
- Bai Ningyang (d. 2006)
- Peter Barnes (d. 1940)
- Michael Barrett (d. 1868) last criminal publicly executed in the UK
- Bangla Bhai (d. 2007)
- Dominick Bodkin (d. 1740)
- Bernard Bolender (d. 1995)
- Vernon Booher (d. 1929)
- Lester Bower (d. 2015)
- Earl Bramblett (d. 2003)
- Richard Burgess (d. 1866)
- Abel Clemmons (d. 1806)
- Robert Raymond Cook (d. 1960)
- William Cook (d. 1952)
- Manuel Martínez Coronado (d. 1998)
- Ditbardh and Josef Cuko (d. 1992)
- Frederick Bailey Deeming (d. 1892)
- Marion Butler Dudley (d. 2006)
- Seiichi Endo (d. 2018)
- Samuel Ferguson (d. 1865)
- Giuseppe Marco Fieschi (d. 1836)
- James Governor (d. 1901)
- Jack Gilbert Graham (d. 1957)
- Joseph-Albert Guay (d. 1951)
- Joseph Hamilton (d. 1906)
- Robert Wayne Harris (d. 2012)
- George Hassell (d. 1928)
- Olga Hepnarová (d. 1975)
- Richard Hickock (d. 1965)
- Kenichi Hirose (d. 2018)
- Daniel Hittle (d. 2000)
- Daryl Holton (d. 2007)
- Dustin Honken (d. 2020)
- Hsu Tung-chih (d. 1984)
- Huda bin Abdul Haq (d. 2008)
- Yoshihiro Inoue (d. 2018)
- Jin Ruchao (d. 2001)
- Steven Timothy Judy (d. 1981)
- Ajmal Kasab (d. 2012)
- Marcin Kasprzak (d. 1905)
- Toivo Koljonen (d. 1943)
- James Lammers (d. 1952)
- John D. Lee (d. 1877)
- Vladimír Lulek (d. 1989)
- Jeffrey Lundgren (d. 2006)
- Vassilis Lymberis (d. 1972) last criminal executed in Greece
- Ma Jiajue (d. 2004)
- Wiremu Kīngi Maketū (d. 1842)
- Luis Monge (d. 1967)
- James McCormick (d. 1940)
- Timothy McVeigh (d. 2001)
- Anatoly Nagiyev (d. 1981)
- Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri (d. 1997)
- Jay Wesley Neill (d. 2002)
- Tomomitsu Niimi (d. 2018)
- Kazuaki Okazaki (d. 2018)
- Carl Panzram (d. 1930)
- Marguerite Pitre (d. 1953)
- Gilbert Postelle (d. 2022)
- Saeed al-Qashash (d. 1999)
- Giannis and Thymios Retzos (d. 1930)
- Généreux Ruest (d. 1952)
- Imam Samudra (d. 2008)
- Shi Yuejun (d. 2008)
- Andrey Shpagonov (d. 1995)
- George David Silva (d. 1912)
- Ronald Gene Simmons (d. 1990)
- Clay King Smith (d. 2001)
- Perry Smith (d. 1965)
- Roger Dale Stafford (d. 1995)
- Mamoru Takuma (d. 2004)
- Abraham Thomas (d. 1958)
- Masami Tsuchiya (d. 2018)
- Wang Binyu (d. 2005)
- Wang Xiwen (d. 1981)
- Coy Wayne Wesbrook (d. 2016)
- William James Williams (d. 2005)
- Hastings Arthur Wise (d. 2005)
- Yan Yanming (d. 2005)
- Yang Jia (d. 2008)
- Yang Zanyun (d. 2019)
- Thomas Young (d. 1959)
- Andrew Zondo (d. 1986)
- Frank Abbandando (d. 1942) contract killer
- Stephen Wayne Anderson (d. 2002)
- William Bonin (d. 1996)
- Gary Ray Bowles (d. 2019)
- Ted Bundy (d. 1989)
- Oba Chandler (d. 2011)
- George Chapman (d. 1903)
- Andrei Chikatilo (d. 1994)
- John Christie (d. 1953)
- Gordon Cummins (d. 1942)
- Martin Dumollard (d. 1862)
- Albert Fish (d. 1936)
- Joseph Paul Franklin (d. 2013)
- John Wayne Gacy (d. 1994)
- Carlton Gary (d. 2018)
- John George Haigh (d. 1949)
- Robert Dale Henderson (d. 1993)
- Hélène Jégado (d. 1852)
- Henri Désiré Landru (d. 1922)
- Gamal Lineveldt (d. 1941)
- Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour (d. 2010)
- Peter Manuel (d. 1958)
- Saad Iskandar Abdel Masih (d. 1953)
- Elifasi Msomi (d. 1956)
- Marcel Petiot (d. 1946)
- Raya and Sakina (d. 1920)
- Tommy Lynn Sells (d. 2014)
- Simicoudza Simicourba (d. 1911)
- George Joseph Smith (d. 1915)
- Charles Starkweather (d. 1959)
- François Tomasini (d. 1914)
- Joseph Vacher (d. 1898)
- Sek Kim Wah (d. 1988) Singapore's first serial killer
- Stanley Williams (d. 2005)
- Aileen Wuornos (d. 2002)
- Elias Xitavhudzi (d. 1960)
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