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2001 Timothy McVeigh executed for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed at least 168
1998 Karla Faye Tucker, murderer, executed at 38 1998 Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38 1997 Gary Burris, murderer (Kenneth Chambers), executed in Indiana 1997 Durlyn Eddmonds, murderer, executed at 45 1997 Walter Stewart, murderer, executed at 42 1997 William Lyle Woratzeck, convicted killer, executed in Ariz at 51 1997 Eric Schneider, murderer of 2 teachers, executed in MO at 35 1997 Randy Greenawalt, convicted killer, executed by injection at 47 1996 Najibullah, President of Afghanistan Democratic Party 1986 - 1990, executed 1994 David Lawson, executed in North Carolina (wanted execution shown on Donahue) 1994 John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52 1994 Andrei Tsjikatilo, Rostov Ripper, Russian mass murdered, executed 1992 Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas at 34 1992 Robert Harris, murderer, executed in California's gas chamber at 39 1989 Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's dictator Nicolea, executed 1989 Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, executed 1989 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25) 1989 Elena Ceaucescu, wife of Romanian dictator Nicolae, executed 1989 Nicolae Ceaucescu, Romanian dictator (1945-89), executed 1989 Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed 1989 Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida at 42 1988 Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for U.S., executed 1986 Paulo Correia, Guinee-Bissaus colonel/putschist, executed 1985 Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed 1982 Charlie Brooks, Jr., convicted murderer became 1st U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas 1982 Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran 1982 5 murderers, of Egyptian President Sadat, executed 1982 Wilfred Hawker, Suriname Sergeant-major, executed 1979 Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed 1979 Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/military governor of Teheran, executed 1978 Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed 1977 Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st U.S. execution since 1967 1974 60 Ethiopia government officials executed 1969 9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria 1968 Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed 1967 Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-born guerrilla, executed in Bolivia 1966 Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed 1963 Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Washington state execution in 25 yrs 1960 Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba 1959 Charles Starkwether, murderer, executed 1958 Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed 1958 Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed 1958 Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed 1956 T Kostov, Bulgarian vice-premier, executed 1955 Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging 1954 Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed 1953 Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed 1953 Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries 1953 Julius Rosenberg, New York City, 1st U.S. civilian executed for espionage at 37 1952 A J Pieters, SS-Untersturmfuhrer, executed 1952 Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed 1951 Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed 1950 Robert W. Lehnhoff, Executioner of Groningen, SS fuhrer, executed 1949 Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, executed 1949 Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon 1949 Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed 1949 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54 1949 Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54 1948 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens 1948 Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42 1947 Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed 1947 J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed 1947 Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed 1946 J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed 1946 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45 1946 Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed 1946 Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed 1946 August Borms, Flemish nazi collaborator, executed at 67 1946 Masaharu Homma, Lieutenant General (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed 1946 Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61 1945 Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Minister of Defense/Prime Minister 1942 - 1945, executed at 58 1945 Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 1945 Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge 1945 Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed 1945 Claretta Petacci, mistress of Mussolini, executed 1945 Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician executed 1945 J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed 1945 Hannie Schaft, "Girl with red hair," executed 1945 Hendrik N Werkman, resistance/painter (Blue Boat), executed at 63 1945 Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands 1945 Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed 1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers 1945 53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers 1945 Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm 1945 Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm 1945 Wim Speelman, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed 1945 Walraven [Wally] van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis, executed at 39 1945 Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1945 Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1945 Eddie Slovik, 1st U.S. executed for desertion since Civil War at 25 1945 Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37 1944 In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis 1944 Joop Brouwer de Koning, youngest Dutch radio operator, executed at 25 1944 Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed 1944 Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest 1944 Segundo "Boy" Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22 1944 Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau 1944 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen 1944 Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed 1944 Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1944 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught 1944 Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49 1944 Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed 1944 French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed 1944 Gerrit Jan van der Veen, Wolffensperger, resister, executed at 41 1944 Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28 1944 Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad 1944 Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 1944 Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37 1944 ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed 1944 J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1943 Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed 1943 H van Zanten, guerrilla leader on North Sumatra, executed 1943 Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed 1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed 1943 Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32 1943 Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1943 Dionysius Remiens, resistance fighter, executed at 24 1943 Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed 1943 Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22 1943 Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24 1943 Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20 1943 Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22 1943 Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35 1943 John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23 1943 Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20 1943 Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21 1943 Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23 1943 Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32 1943 Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19 1943 Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36 1943 Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42 1943 Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed 1943 Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed 1943 C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed 1943 Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1943 Karl Groger, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed 1942 Bosinier de la Chapelle, French murderer of Admiral Darlan, executed at 24 1942 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed 1942 Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed 1942 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris 1942 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel 1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in U.S. executed in Washington D.C. 1942 Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32 1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis 1942 Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62 1942 Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50 1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed 1942 Johan H Westerveld, Lt-colonel/leader Order Service, executed 1942 Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58 1941 Juanita Spellini, first women executed in California 1941 Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40 1941 Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik, Dutch resist fighter in France, executed at 36 1941 Maurice Charles Emile Barlier, French resistance fighter, executed at 35 1941 Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London 1941 Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania 1941 Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), executed at 46 1941 A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Bernard Ijzerdraat, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46 1941 J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed 1941 Ernst Cahn, owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed 1939 Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed 1938 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35 1936 Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, Spanish Falange, executed 1936 Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed 1936 Peter H J "Piet" van Doorne, director BOVA Red Peppers, executed at 52 1934 Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46 1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass 1924 Gee John, U.S. mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada), dies 1922 6 old minsters in Greece, executed 1920 Alexander Koltsjak, Admiral/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed 1918 Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II, executed at 13 1918 Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicholas, executed at 17 1918 Nicolas II Aleksandrovitch, last tsar of Russia, executed at 50 1917 William Smith, British deserter in France, executed at 20 1917 Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris 1917 Herbert Morris, Jamaican deserter in France, executed at 17 1917 Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed 1916 Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51 1916 Charles Fryatt, British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies 1916 Padraic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by British firing squad 1916 Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed 1915 Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder 1915 Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II) 1915 Julius Rosenberg, New York City, 1st U.S. civilian executed for espionage 1914 Eugene Odene, French mayor of Senlis, executed 1914 Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks 1914 German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad 1912 General Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of U.S. occupation, is executed 1910 Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, executed 1909 Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist, executed 1906 Johann Hoch, U.S. murderer, executed 1902 Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed 1890 John Hart or William Kemmler, U.S., 1st executed in electric chair (NY) 1885 Louis Riel, French rebel who fought against Canada, executed at 41 1885 Charles George Gordon, British Governor-General of Sudan, executed at 51 1865 Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty 1858 French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed 1850 Bab, Baha'i prophet, executed in Tabriz Iran 1829 William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh 1815 Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards 1815 Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15), executed 1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish 1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed 1810 Andreas Hofer, military leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42 1803 Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed 1799 Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed 1795 Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed 1794 Robespierre, and 22 other terrorists executed to thunderous cheers 1793 Jean-Sylvain, French historian (Napoleon), executed at 53 1776 Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed 1775 Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia 1760 Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward 1759 Marquis and Marquess of Tavora, Portugese nobles, executed 1757 John Byng, English Admiral (Minorca), executed at 52 1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch 1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing 1738 Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed 1738 Baruch Leibov, converted Russian Naval officer to Judaism, executed 1732 Pieter Vuyst, Dutch Governor-General of Ceylon, executed 1722 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed 1721 Nathaniel Hawes, tortured and executed in England for robbery 1719 Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/lord of the manor, executed at 59 1699 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow 1692 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass 1685 James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles 2, executed 1683 Kara Mustapha, Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83), executed 1674 Franciscus van Enden, Flemish jesuit/free thinker, executed at 72 1671 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured and executed in Moscow 1661 Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed 1647 Achsah Young, 1st woman known to be a witch, executed in Salem Mass 1642 Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed 1632 Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed 1606 Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed at 35 1601 Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth 1600 Charles I, king of England, 1625-49, ; executed by Parliament 1596 Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico 1594 Michel Renichon, priest, executed 1593 John Penry, English congressionalist, executed 1587 Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed 1587 Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed 1586 Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24 1580 Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed 1572 Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36 1570 Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed 1570 Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 1559 Jacques d'Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed 1554 Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, executed 1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason 1540 Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed 1538 Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth, 1572 1536 Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed 1535 Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57 1535 John Houghton, English, executed 1525 Thomas Munzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed 1505 John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed 1495 William Stanley, English lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy 1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV 1456 Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted 1440 Bluebeard, pirate, executed 1419 Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows 1141 Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed 468 Huna Mari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita 388 Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed 31 Sejanus, Roman head of praetorisch guard, 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