This is a list of people who were executed:
- Ignatius Kutu Acheampong
- Akwasi Afrifa
- Fred W.K. Akuffo
- Stephen Wayne Anderson
- Ion Antonescu
- Manuel Babbitt
- Nikos Beloyannis
- Lavrenty Beria
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- Maurice Bishop
- Anne Boleyn
- William George Bonin
- Nikolay Bukharin
- Ted Bundy
- Nicolae Ceausescu
- Caryl Chessman
- Andrei Chikatilo
- Galeazzo Ciano
- Davy Crockett
- Emilio De Bono
- Robert Erskine
- Guy Fawkes
- Bogdan Filov
- Wilhelm Frick
- John Wayne Gacy
- Juan Garza
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
- Gary Gilmore
- Barbara Graham
- Che Guevara
- Nathan Hale
- Robert Alton Harris
- Bruno Hauptmann
- Paul Jennings Hill
- Agustín de Iturbide
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Joan of Arc
- William Kemmler
- King Louis XVI
- Kevin Malone
- David Edward Mason
- Robert Lee Massie
- Maximilian of Mexico
- Timothy McVeigh
- Draza Mihailovic
- Miguel Miramón
- Francisco Morazán
- Thomas More
- Benito Mussolini
- Imre Nagy
- Mohammad Najibullah
- Nicholas II and family
- Vidkun Quisling
- Darrell Keith Rich
- Louis Riel
- Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
- Salem Ali Rubayyi
- Aleksey Rykov
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
- Jaturun Siripongs
- Eddie Slovik
- Aleksandur Stamboliyski
- Charles Starkweather
- Claus von Stauffenberg
- Ferenc Szálasi
- Jozef Tiso
- Hideki Tojo
- William Walker
- William Wallace
- Giuseppe Zangara
