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<ul id="toc-Denmark-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Democratic Republic of the Congo</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-England" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#England"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>England</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-England-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-European_New_World_colonies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#European_New_World_colonies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>European New World colonies</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-European_New_World_colonies-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle European New World colonies subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-European_New_World_colonies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Bolivia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bolivia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.1</span> <span>Bolivia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bolivia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Brazil_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Brazil_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.2</span> <span>Brazil</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Brazil_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-British_North_America" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#British_North_America"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.3</span> <span>British North America</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-British_North_America-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Haiti" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Haiti"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.4</span> <span>Haiti</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Haiti-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mexico" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mexico"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.5</span> <span>Mexico</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mexico-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Panama" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Panama"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.6</span> <span>Panama</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Panama-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Peru" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Peru"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.7</span> <span>Peru</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Peru-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Finland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Finland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Finland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Finland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-France" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#France"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>France</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-France-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle France subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-France-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Ancien_Régime" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ancien_Régime"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.1</span> <span><i>Ancien Régime</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ancien_Régime-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-French_Revolution" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#French_Revolution"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.2</span> <span>French Revolution</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-French_Revolution-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-French_First_Republic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#French_First_Republic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.3</span> <span>French First Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-French_First_Republic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Restoration" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Restoration"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.4</span> <span>Restoration</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Restoration-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-French_Republic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#French_Republic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.5</span> <span>French Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-French_Republic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Georgia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Georgia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>Georgia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Georgia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Germany" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Germany"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>Germany</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Germany-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Germany subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Germany-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Pre-20th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pre-20th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16.1</span> <span>Pre-20th century</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pre-20th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Weimar_Republic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Weimar_Republic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16.2</span> <span>Weimar Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Weimar_Republic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nazi_Germany" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nazi_Germany"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16.3</span> <span>Nazi Germany</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nazi_Germany-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Great_Britain" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Great_Britain"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">17</span> <span>Great Britain</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Great_Britain-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hungary" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hungary"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">18</span> <span>Hungary</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hungary-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-India" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#India"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">19</span> <span>India</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-India-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Indonesia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Indonesia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">20</span> <span>Indonesia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Indonesia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Iraq" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Iraq"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">21</span> <span>Iraq</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Iraq-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Iraq subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Iraq-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Ancient_Mesopotamia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ancient_Mesopotamia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">21.1</span> <span>Ancient Mesopotamia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ancient_Mesopotamia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Umayyad_era" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Umayyad_era"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">21.2</span> <span>Umayyad era</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Umayyad_era-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Abbasid_era" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Abbasid_era"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">21.3</span> <span>Abbasid era</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Abbasid_era-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Modern" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Modern"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">21.4</span> <span>Modern</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Modern-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Iceland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Iceland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">22</span> <span>Iceland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Iceland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Iran" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Iran"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">23</span> <span>Iran</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Iran-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ireland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ireland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">24</span> <span>Ireland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ireland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Israel" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Israel"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">25</span> <span>Israel</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Israel-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Italy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Italy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">26</span> <span>Italy</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Italy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Italy subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Italy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Ancient_Rome" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ancient_Rome"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">26.1</span> <span>Ancient Rome</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ancient_Rome-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Medieval_Italy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Medieval_Italy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">26.2</span> <span>Medieval Italy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Medieval_Italy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Later_Italy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Later_Italy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">26.3</span> <span>Later Italy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Later_Italy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Japan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Japan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">27</span> <span>Japan</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Japan-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Japan subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Japan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Home_islands" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Home_islands"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">27.1</span> <span>Home islands</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Home_islands-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Japanese-occupied_territories_(20th_century)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Japanese-occupied_territories_(20th_century)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">27.2</span> <span>Japanese-occupied territories (20th century)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Japanese-occupied_territories_(20th_century)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Modern_Japan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Modern_Japan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">27.3</span> <span>Modern Japan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Modern_Japan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Jordan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Jordan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">28</span> <span>Jordan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Jordan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Korea" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Korea"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">29</span> <span>Korea</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Korea-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Libya" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Libya"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">30</span> <span>Libya</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Libya-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Netherlands/Belgium" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Netherlands/Belgium"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">31</span> <span>Netherlands/Belgium</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Netherlands/Belgium-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Norway" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Norway"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">32</span> <span>Norway</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Norway-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pakistan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pakistan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">33</span> <span>Pakistan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pakistan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Philippines" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Philippines"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">34</span> <span>Philippines</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Philippines-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Poland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Poland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">35</span> <span>Poland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Poland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Portugal" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Portugal"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">36</span> <span>Portugal</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Portugal-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Russia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Russia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">37</span> <span>Russia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Russia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Saudi_Arabia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Saudi_Arabia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">38</span> <span>Saudi Arabia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Saudi_Arabia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Scotland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Scotland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">39</span> <span>Scotland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Scotland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Serbia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Serbia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">40</span> <span>Serbia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Serbia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spain" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spain"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">41</span> <span>Spain</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spain-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sri_Lanka" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sri_Lanka"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">42</span> <span>Sri Lanka</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sri_Lanka-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sweden" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sweden"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">43</span> <span>Sweden</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sweden-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Syria" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Syria"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">44</span> <span>Syria</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Syria-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Switzerland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Switzerland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">45</span> <span>Switzerland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Switzerland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Turkey" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Turkey"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span 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.ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2017</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p> The following is a list of <b>people who were beheaded</b>, arranged alphabetically by country or region and with date of <a href="/wiki/Decapitation" title="Decapitation">decapitation</a>. Special sections on "Religious figures" and "Fictional characters" are also appended. </p><p>These individuals lost their heads intentionally (as a form of execution or posthumously). A list of people who were decapitated accidentally, including animal-related deaths, can be found at <a href="/wiki/List_of_people_who_were_decapitated" title="List of people who were decapitated">List of people who were decapitated</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vecelli,_Tiziano_-_Judith_-_c._1515.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Vecelli%2C_Tiziano_-_Judith_-_c._1515.jpg/220px-Vecelli%2C_Tiziano_-_Judith_-_c._1515.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Vecelli%2C_Tiziano_-_Judith_-_c._1515.jpg/330px-Vecelli%2C_Tiziano_-_Judith_-_c._1515.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Vecelli%2C_Tiziano_-_Judith_-_c._1515.jpg/440px-Vecelli%2C_Tiziano_-_Judith_-_c._1515.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1066" data-file-height="1300" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Salome" title="Salome">Salome</a> and the Beheading of <a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">St. John the Baptist</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Titian" title="Titian">Titian</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Decapitaci%C3%B3n_de_San_Pablo_-_Simonet_-_1887.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Decapitaci%C3%B3n_de_San_Pablo_-_Simonet_-_1887.jpg/220px-Decapitaci%C3%B3n_de_San_Pablo_-_Simonet_-_1887.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Decapitaci%C3%B3n_de_San_Pablo_-_Simonet_-_1887.jpg/330px-Decapitaci%C3%B3n_de_San_Pablo_-_Simonet_-_1887.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Decapitaci%C3%B3n_de_San_Pablo_-_Simonet_-_1887.jpg/440px-Decapitaci%C3%B3n_de_San_Pablo_-_Simonet_-_1887.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1939" data-file-height="1195" /></a><figcaption><i>The Beheading of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Paul" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Paul">Saint Paul</a></i>. Painting by <a href="/wiki/Enrique_Simonet" title="Enrique Simonet">Enrique Simonet</a> in 1887</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Austria">Austria</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Austria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Haydn" title="Joseph Haydn">Joseph Haydn</a> (1809) – celebrated composer posthumously beheaded; see <a href="/wiki/Haydn%27s_head" class="mw-redirect" title="Haydn's head">Haydn's head</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Azerbaijan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kyaram_Sloyan" title="Kyaram Sloyan">Kyaram Sloyan</a> (2016) – <a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurdish</a> <a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidi</a> soldier, posthumously decapitated by Azerbaijani soldiers during the <a href="/wiki/2016_Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict" title="2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict">2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict</a>. Photos and videos of various soldiers posing with his severed head were widely circulated online after his death.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Genadi Petrosyan (2020) – ethnically <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> citizen of the <a href="/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Nagorno-Karabakh Republic">Nagorno-Karabakh Republic</a> (<a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Artsakh" title="Republic of Artsakh">Republic of Artsakh</a>) beheaded by Azerbaijani soldiers during the <a href="/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war">2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war</a>.</li> <li>Yuri Asryan (2020) – ethnically Armenian citizen of the <a href="/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Nagorno-Karabakh Republic">Nagorno-Karabakh Republic</a> (<a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Artsakh" title="Republic of Artsakh">Republic of Artsakh</a>) beheaded by Azerbaijani soldiers during the <a href="/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war">2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war</a>. Along with Genadi Petrosyan, videos and photos of both beheadings were circulated through social media, most notably <a href="/wiki/Telegram_(software)" title="Telegram (software)">Telegram</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Brazil">Brazil</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Brazil"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Ot%C3%A1vio_Jord%C3%A3o_da_Silva" class="mw-redirect" title="Death of Otávio Jordão da Silva">Jordão da Silva Cantanhede</a> (2013) – a Brazilian amateur <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> referee,<sup id="cite_ref-NY_News_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NY_News-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was <a href="/wiki/Lynching" title="Lynching">lynched</a>, quartered, and beheaded by football spectators in <a href="/wiki/Pio_XII,_Maranh%C3%A3o" title="Pio XII, Maranhão">Pio XII, Maranhão</a>, after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013. Spectators then put his head on a stake in the middle of the pitch. A viral video later surfaced of medical officials reassembling his body.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IBT_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IBT-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Deadspin_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Deadspin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Rodrigo" title="João Rodrigo">João Rodrigo Silva Santos</a> (2013) – Brazilian football player, murdered and beheaded by suspected drug traffickers.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Canada">Canada</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Canada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Fred_Fulton_and_Verna_Decarie" title="Murder of Fred Fulton and Verna Decarie">Fred Fulton</a> (2005) – stabbed to death along with Veronica "Verna" Decarie by Gregory Allan Despres during <a href="/wiki/Paranoid_schizophrenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Paranoid schizophrenia">paranoid schizophrenia</a>-led delusions. Fulton was additionally beheaded with a homemade sword.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean" title="Killing of Tim McLean">Tim McLean</a> (2008) – murdered, beheaded, and partially cannibalized by <a href="/wiki/Vince_Weiguang_Li" class="mw-redirect" title="Vince Weiguang Li">Vince Weiguang Li</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_Canada" title="Greyhound Canada">Greyhound Canada</a> bus in <a href="/wiki/Portage_la_Prairie" title="Portage la Prairie">Portage la Prairie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">Manitoba</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Jun_Lin" title="Murder of Jun Lin">Jun Lin</a> (2012) – fatally stabbed, dismembered, necrophilliaced and possibly cannibalized in a video depicting his murder by Luka Magnotta.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His severed head was recovered at the edge of a small lake in Montreal's <a href="/wiki/Angrignon_Park" title="Angrignon Park">Angrignon Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Fribjon Bjornson (2012) – severed head found on the <a href="/wiki/Nak%27azdli_Band" title="Nak'azdli Band">Nak'azdli</a> reserve near <a href="/wiki/Fort_St._James" title="Fort St. James">Fort St. James</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Tien Ly (2022) – decapitated after being killed by her son, Dallas Ly.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Central_African_Republic">Central African Republic</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Central African Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Didier Wangay (2021) - Former acting Mayor of <a href="/wiki/Bambari" title="Bambari">Bambari</a>; <a href="/wiki/Wagner_Group" title="Wagner Group">Wagner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_African_Armed_Forces" title="Central African Armed Forces">FACA</a> arrested Wangay and his family in Gallougou on 15 December 2021 and beheaded him, his son, wife, niece, and nephew. Afterwards, their heads were displayed in Bambari as trophies.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Josué Béfio (2024) - <a href="/wiki/Anti-balaka" title="Anti-balaka">Anti-balaka</a> leader in <a href="/wiki/Ouham-Fafa" title="Ouham-Fafa">Ouham-Fafa</a>; Béfio, along with his bodyguard, were beheaded at a military base in <a href="/wiki/Bouca" title="Bouca">Bouca</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="China">China</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jingkeciqinwang.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Jingkeciqinwang.png/250px-Jingkeciqinwang.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Jingkeciqinwang.png/375px-Jingkeciqinwang.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Jingkeciqinwang.png/500px-Jingkeciqinwang.png 2x" data-file-width="560" data-file-height="318" /></a><figcaption>Mural depicting <a href="/wiki/Jing_Ke" title="Jing Ke">Jing Ke</a>'s assassination attempt on the <a href="/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang" title="Qin Shi Huang">King of Qin</a>; the severed head of Huan Yi is in an open box at bottom.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Huan_Yi" title="Huan Yi">Huan Yi (Fan Wuji)</a> (桓齮, 227 BC) – traitorous <a href="/wiki/Qin_(state)" title="Qin (state)">Qin</a> general; his severed head was instrumental in <a href="/wiki/Jing_Ke" title="Jing Ke">Jing Ke</a>'s assassination attempt of the Qin king.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Han_Xin" title="Han Xin">Han Xin</a> (韓信, 196 BC) – executed by <a href="/wiki/Empress_L%C3%BC" title="Empress Lü">Empress Lü</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wang_Mang" title="Wang Mang">Wang Mang</a> (王莽, 23 AD) – Founder of the <a href="/wiki/Xin_dynasty" title="Xin dynasty">Xin dynasty</a>; posthumously beheaded after being killed by a rebel mob.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guan_Yu" title="Guan Yu">Guan Yu</a> (關羽, 219) – executed during civil war by <a href="/wiki/Sun_Quan" title="Sun Quan">Sun Quan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guan_Ping" title="Guan Ping">Guan Ping</a> (關平, 219) – son of Guan Yu, executed during civil war by <a href="/wiki/Sun_Quan" title="Sun Quan">Sun Quan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yu_Cong" title="Yu Cong">Yu Cong</a> (于琮, 881) – <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty" title="Tang dynasty">Tang</a> official beheaded by agrarian rebel <a href="/wiki/Huang_Chao" title="Huang Chao">Huang Chao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Yun_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Li Yun (Tang dynasty)">Li Yun</a> (887) – decapitated by <a href="/wiki/Wang_Chongrong" title="Wang Chongrong">Wang Chongrong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhu_Mei" title="Zhu Mei">Zhu Mei</a> (887) – decapitated by <a href="/wiki/Wang_Xingyu" title="Wang Xingyu">Wang Xingyu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chen_Jingxuan" title="Chen Jingxuan">Chen Jingxuan</a> (陳敬瑄, 893) – Tang general</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cui_Zhaowei" title="Cui Zhaowei">Cui Zhaowei</a> (崔昭緯, 896) – Tang official</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wen_Tianxiang" title="Wen Tianxiang">Wen Tianxiang</a> (文天祥, 1283) – scholar and general</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wang_Zhi_(pirate)" title="Wang Zhi (pirate)">Wang Zhi</a> (王直, 1560) – pirate and smuggler executed by the Ming dynasty</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xia_Wanchun" title="Xia Wanchun">Xia Wanchun</a> (夏完淳, 1647) – poet, executed by Qing official <a href="/wiki/Hong_Chengchou" title="Hong Chengchou">Hong Chengchou</a> who betrayed Ming before the <a href="/wiki/Ming_dynasty" title="Ming dynasty">Ming dynasty</a> fell.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Ferdinand_de_Capillas" title="Francis Ferdinand de Capillas">St Francis de Capillas</a> (聖劉方濟, 1648) – beheaded at <a href="/wiki/Fogang_County" title="Fogang County">Fogang County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Schlagintweit" title="Adolf Schlagintweit">Adolf Schlagintweit</a> (1857) – German botanist and explorer; executed by the ruler of <a href="/wiki/Kashgar" title="Kashgar">Kashgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lin_Xu" title="Lin Xu">Lin Xu</a> (林旭, 1898) and <a href="/wiki/Tan_Sitong" title="Tan Sitong">Tan Sitong</a> (譚嗣同, 1898) – executed with four others during the <a href="/wiki/Qing_dynasty" title="Qing dynasty">Qing dynasty</a> by <a href="/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Cixi" title="Empress Dowager Cixi">Empress Dowager Cixi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murders_of_John_and_Betty_Stam" title="Murders of John and Betty Stam">John and Betty Stam</a> (1934) – American Christian missionaries executed by the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Red_Army" title="Chinese Red Army">Chinese Red Army</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chile">Chile</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Chile"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murders_of_Mar%C3%ADa_Jos%C3%A9_Reyes_and_Juan_Duarte" title="Murders of María José Reyes and Juan Duarte">María José Reyes and Juan Duarte</a> (2012) – beheaded by a seller of antiquities in <a href="/wiki/Lolol" title="Lolol">Lolol</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Croatia">Croatia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Croatia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Petru_Zrinskom_i_Krsti_Frankopanu_odrubljene_su_glave_u_Beckom_Novom_Mjestu_30.4.1671._god.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Petru_Zrinskom_i_Krsti_Frankopanu_odrubljene_su_glave_u_Beckom_Novom_Mjestu_30.4.1671._god.jpg/249px-Petru_Zrinskom_i_Krsti_Frankopanu_odrubljene_su_glave_u_Beckom_Novom_Mjestu_30.4.1671._god.jpg" decoding="async" width="249" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Petru_Zrinskom_i_Krsti_Frankopanu_odrubljene_su_glave_u_Beckom_Novom_Mjestu_30.4.1671._god.jpg/374px-Petru_Zrinskom_i_Krsti_Frankopanu_odrubljene_su_glave_u_Beckom_Novom_Mjestu_30.4.1671._god.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Petru_Zrinskom_i_Krsti_Frankopanu_odrubljene_su_glave_u_Beckom_Novom_Mjestu_30.4.1671._god.jpg/498px-Petru_Zrinskom_i_Krsti_Frankopanu_odrubljene_su_glave_u_Beckom_Novom_Mjestu_30.4.1671._god.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1238" data-file-height="809" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan in <a href="/wiki/Wiener_Neustadt" title="Wiener Neustadt">Wiener Neustadt</a>. </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Petar_Berislavi%C4%87" title="Petar Berislavić">Petar Berislavić</a> (1520) – beheaded in combat as he got surrounded by many Ottoman soldiers. His head and body were retrieved by Croatian soldiers and taken first to <a href="/wiki/Biha%C4%87" title="Bihać">Bihać</a> and subsequently to <a href="/wiki/Veszpr%C3%A9m" title="Veszprém">Veszprem</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petar_Kru%C5%BEi%C4%87" title="Petar Kružić">Petar Kružić</a> (1537) – beheaded in combat against the Ottomans. His severed head was then demonstrated to defenders of <a href="/wiki/Fortress_of_Klis" title="Fortress of Klis">Klis fortress</a> to persuade them to surrender.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>  </li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikola_IV_Zrinski" title="Nikola IV Zrinski">Nikola Šubić Zrinski</a> (1566) – killed and posthumously beheaded by the Ottomans during the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Szigetv%C3%A1r" title="Siege of Szigetvár">Siege of Szigetvár</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnate_conspiracy" title="Magnate conspiracy">Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan</a> (1671) – sentenced to death and beheaded for conspiring against Habsburg emperor.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Tomislav_Salopek" title="Murder of Tomislav Salopek">Tomislav Salopek</a> (2015) – Croatian topographer who was abducted by <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">ISIS</a> in <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> and subsequently beheaded.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Denmark">Denmark</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Denmark"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Palles" title="Anne Palles">Anne Palles</a> (1693) – executed in <a href="/wiki/Copenhagen" title="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a> for witchcraft.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Povel_Juel" title="Povel Juel">Povel Juel</a> (1723) – executed in Copenhagen for <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9" title="Lèse-majesté">lèse-majesté</a>.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Niels_Knudsen_Drostrup&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Niels Knudsen Drostrup (page does not exist)">Niels Knudsen Drostrup</a> (1752) – executed by axe in Løgstør for deadly arson.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Struensee" title="Johann Friedrich Struensee">Johann Friedrich Struensee</a> (1772) – executed in Copenhagen for <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9" title="Lèse-majesté">lèse-majesté</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enevold_Brandt" title="Enevold Brandt">Enevold Brandt</a> (1772) – executed in Copenhagen for <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9" title="Lèse-majesté">lèse-majesté</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Kim_Wall" title="Murder of Kim Wall">Kim Wall</a> (2017) – Swedish journalist who was murdered and dismembered by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Madsen" title="Peter Madsen">Peter Madsen</a> on his submarine.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Democratic Republic of the Congo"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zaida_Catal%C3%A1n" title="Zaida Catalán">Zaida Catalán</a> (2017) – Swedish politician of Chilean descent, kidnapped and murdered in 2017</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="England">England</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: England"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For English beheadings after 1707, see <a href="#Great_Britain">§ Great Britain</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Heads_on_spikes.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Heads_on_spikes.png/220px-Heads_on_spikes.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Heads_on_spikes.png/330px-Heads_on_spikes.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Heads_on_spikes.png 2x" data-file-width="354" data-file-height="392" /></a><figcaption>The heads of famous English traitors were customarily spiked on <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge" title="London Bridge">London Bridge</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Guy_de_Beauchamp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Guy_de_Beauchamp.jpg/220px-Guy_de_Beauchamp.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="425" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Guy_de_Beauchamp.jpg/330px-Guy_de_Beauchamp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Guy_de_Beauchamp.jpg/440px-Guy_de_Beauchamp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="530" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Piers Gaveston at the feet of the Earl of Warwick, 1312</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vExecHughDespenser.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vExecHughDespenser.jpg/220px-BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vExecHughDespenser.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vExecHughDespenser.jpg/330px-BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vExecHughDespenser.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vExecHughDespenser.jpg/440px-BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vExecHughDespenser.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1414" data-file-height="1380" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Hugh Despenser the younger, 1326</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beheading_duke_somerset.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Beheading_duke_somerset.jpg/220px-Beheading_duke_somerset.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Beheading_duke_somerset.jpg/330px-Beheading_duke_somerset.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Beheading_duke_somerset.jpg/440px-Beheading_duke_somerset.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1822" data-file-height="2252" /></a><figcaption>The execution of <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Beaufort,_4th_Duke_of_Somerset" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset">Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset</a> at Tewkesbury, 1471</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Waltheof,_Earl_of_Northumbria" title="Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria">Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria</a> (1076) – executed at Winchester by order of <a href="/wiki/William_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="William I of England">William I</a> for taking part in the <a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Earls" title="Revolt of the Earls">Revolt of the Earls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dafydd_ap_Gruffydd" class="mw-redirect" title="Dafydd ap Gruffydd">Dafydd ap Gruffydd</a>, Prince of Wales (1283) – hanged, drawn and quartered in Shrewsbury by <a href="/wiki/Edward_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward I">Edward I</a> for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wallace" title="William Wallace">William Wallace</a> (1305) – Scottish resistance fighter, hanged, drawn and quartered by <a href="/wiki/Edward_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward I">Edward I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piers_Gaveston" class="mw-redirect" title="Piers Gaveston">Piers Gaveston</a> (1312) – executed near Warwick by <a href="/wiki/Thomas,_2nd_Earl_of_Lancaster" title="Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster">Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster</a> in the Baron's Revolt</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas,_2nd_Earl_of_Lancaster" title="Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster">Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Steward" title="Lord High Steward">Lord High Steward</a> (1322) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Castle" title="Pontefract Castle">Pontefract Castle</a> by <a href="/wiki/Edward_II_of_England" title="Edward II of England">Edward II of England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_FitzAlan,_9th_Earl_of_Arundel" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel">Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel</a> (1326) – executed at Hereford by <a href="/wiki/Isabella_of_France" title="Isabella of France">Queen Isabella</a>, Regent for <a href="/wiki/Edward_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward III">Edward III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Despenser_the_Younger" title="Hugh Despenser the Younger">Hugh Despenser the Younger</a> (1326) – hanged, drawn and quartered by order of <a href="/wiki/Isabella_of_France" title="Isabella of France">Queen Isabella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_of_Woodstock,_1st_Earl_of_Kent" title="Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent">Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_Wardens_of_the_Cinque_Ports" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports">Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports</a> (1330) – executed at Winchester by <a href="/wiki/Isabella_of_France" title="Isabella of France">Queen Isabella</a>, Regent for <a href="/wiki/Edward_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward III">Edward III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hales_(knight)" title="Robert Hales (knight)">Sir Robert Hales</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Treasurer" title="Lord High Treasurer">Lord High Treasurer</a> (1381) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Tower_Hill" title="Tower Hill">Tower Hill</a> by rebels during the <a href="/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt" title="Peasants' Revolt">Peasants' Revolt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Sudbury" title="Simon Sudbury">Simon of Sudbury</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_London" title="Bishop of London">Bishop of London</a> (1381) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Tower_Hill" title="Tower Hill">Tower Hill</a> by rebels during the <a href="/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt" title="Peasants' Revolt">Peasants' Revolt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Lyons_(Warden_of_the_Mint)" title="Richard Lyons (Warden of the Mint)">Richard Lyons</a> – London merchant and financier (1381) – beheaded in London by rebels during the <a href="/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt" title="Peasants' Revolt">Peasants' Revolt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Cavendish" title="John Cavendish">Sir John Cavendish</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England_and_Wales" title="Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales">Chief Justice of the King's Bench</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_(education)" title="Chancellor (education)">Chancellor</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> (1381) – executed in Bury St Edmunds by rebels during the <a href="/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt" title="Peasants' Revolt">Peasants' Revolt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wat_Tyler" title="Wat Tyler">Wat Tyler</a> (1381) – beheaded in London by order of the Lord Mayor of London during the <a href="/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt" title="Peasants' Revolt">Peasants' Revolt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ball_(priest)" title="John Ball (priest)">John Ball</a> (1381) – hanged, drawn and quartered at St Albans after the <a href="/wiki/Peasants_Revolt" class="mw-redirect" title="Peasants Revolt">Peasants Revolt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_de_Burley" class="mw-redirect" title="Simon de Burley">Sir Simon de Burley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> (1388) – executed on Tower Hill by the <a href="/wiki/Merciless_Parliament" title="Merciless Parliament">Merciless Parliament</a> for supporting <a href="/wiki/Richard_II_of_England" title="Richard II of England">Richard II of England</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_de_Beauchamp,_1st_Baron_Beauchamp_(fourth_creation)" class="mw-redirect" title="John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (fourth creation)">John de Beauchamp</a> (1388) – executed on Tower Hill by the Merciless Parliament for supporting <a href="/wiki/Richard_II_of_England" title="Richard II of England">Richard II of England</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Sir John Emsley (1388) – executed on Tower Hill by the Merciless Parliament for supporting <a href="/wiki/Richard_II_of_England" title="Richard II of England">Richard II of England</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_FitzAlan,_11th_Earl_of_Arundel" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel">Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> (1397) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Richard_II_of_England" title="Richard II of England">Richard II of England</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_le_Scrope" class="mw-redirect" title="William le Scrope">William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Bussy" title="John Bussy">Sir John Bussy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Green_(politician,_died_1399)" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Green (politician, died 1399)">Sir Henry Green</a> (1399) – executed in Bristol Castle by the Duke of Hereford (soon to be <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV of England</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_de_Lumley,_1st_Baron_Lumley" class="mw-redirect" title="Ralph de Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley">Ralph de Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley</a> (1400) – executed at Cirencester during reign of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Epiphany_Rising" title="Epiphany Rising">Epiphany Rising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_le_Despenser,_1st_Earl_of_Gloucester" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester">Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester</a> (1400) – executed at Bristol by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Epiphany_Rising" title="Epiphany Rising">Epiphany Rising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Holland,_1st_Duke_of_Exeter" title="John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter">John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_Great_Chamberlain" title="Lord Great Chamberlain">Lord Great Chamberlain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Justice_of_Chester" title="Justice of Chester">Justice of Chester</a> (1400) – executed at Pleshey Castle, Essex by order of <a href="/wiki/Joan_Fitzalan,_Countess_of_Hereford" title="Joan Fitzalan, Countess of Hereford">Joan Fitzalan, Countess of Hereford</a>, with the approval of her son-in-law <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a>, for the <a href="/wiki/Epiphany_Rising" title="Epiphany Rising">Epiphany Rising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Montacute,_3rd_Earl_of_Salisbury" class="mw-redirect" title="John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury">John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> (1400) – executed at Cirencester during reign of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Epiphany_Rising" title="Epiphany Rising">Epiphany Rising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Holland,_1st_Duke_of_Surrey" title="Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey">Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> – <a href="/wiki/Earl_Marshal" title="Earl Marshal">Earl Marshal</a> (1400) – executed at Cirencester during reign of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Epiphany_Rising" title="Epiphany Rising">Epiphany Rising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Brocas_(rebel)" title="Bernard Brocas (rebel)">Sir Benard Brocas</a> (1400) – beheaded at Tyburn during reign of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Epiphany_Rising" title="Epiphany Rising">Epiphany Rising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Percy,_1st_Earl_of_Worcester" title="Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester">Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester</a> (1403) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a> (Hanged, drawn and quartered)</li> <li>Sir David Walsh (1403) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a> (Hanged, drawn and quartered)</li> <li>Danney Parsons (1403) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a> (Hanged, drawn and quartered)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_de_Mowbray,_4th_Earl_of_Norfolk" title="Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk">Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk</a> – <a href="/wiki/Earl_Marshal" title="Earl Marshal">Earl Marshal</a> (1405) – executed at York by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a> for treason<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Scrope_(bishop)" title="Richard Scrope (bishop)">Richard le Scrope</a>, Archbishop of York (1405) – executed at York by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a> for treason<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Sir William de Plumpton (1405) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a> for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_of_Conisburgh,_3rd_Earl_of_Cambridge" title="Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge">Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge</a> (1415) – executed at Southampton by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_V_of_England" title="Henry V of England">Henry V of England</a> for his involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Southampton_Plot" title="Southampton Plot">Southampton Plot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Scrope,_3rd_Baron_Scrope_of_Masham" title="Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham">Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> (1415) – executed at Southampton by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_V_of_England" title="Henry V of England">Henry V of England</a> for his involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Southampton_Plot" title="Southampton Plot">Southampton Plot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_de_la_Pole,_1st_Duke_of_Suffolk" title="William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk">William de la Pole</a> (1450) – beheaded at sea, possibly by order of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Plantagenet,_3rd_Duke_of_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York">Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Fiennes,_1st_Baron_Saye_and_Sele" title="James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele">James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele</a> (1450) – beheaded in London by rebels led by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Cade" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack Cade">Jack Cade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Tuchet,_5th_Baron_Audley" title="James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley">James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley</a> (1459) – executed after <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Blore_Heath" title="Battle of Blore Heath">Battle of Blore Heath</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Neville,_5th_Earl_of_Salisbury" title="Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury">Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a>, <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Most_Honourable_Privy_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council">PC</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a> (1460) – executed after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wakefield" title="Battle of Wakefield">Battle of Wakefield</a> for being a Yorkist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund,_Earl_of_Rutland" title="Edmund, Earl of Rutland">Edmund, Earl of Rutland</a> (1460) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/John_Clifford,_9th_Baron_de_Clifford" class="mw-redirect" title="John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford">Lord Clifford</a> for being a Yorkist (stabbed to death during the Battle of Wakefield and later decapitated)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Thorpe_(Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Thorpe (Speaker of the House of Commons)">Thomas Thorpe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)" title="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)">Speaker of the House of Commons</a> (1461) – beheaded by a London mob</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owen_Tudor" title="Owen Tudor">Sir Owen Tudor</a> (1461) – executed after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mortimer%27s_Cross" title="Battle of Mortimer's Cross">Battle of Mortimer's Cross</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Kyriell" title="Thomas Kyriell">Sir Thomas Kyriell</a> (1461) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou" title="Margaret of Anjou">Margaret of Anjou</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_St_Albans" title="Second Battle of St Albans">Second Battle of St Albans</a> for being a Yorkist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Bonville,_1st_Baron_Bonville" title="William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville">William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville</a> (1461) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou" title="Margaret of Anjou">Margaret of Anjou</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_St_Albans" title="Second Battle of St Albans">Second Battle of St Albans</a> for being a Yorkist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Courtenay,_14th_Earl_of_Devon" title="Thomas Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon">Thomas Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon</a> (1461) – executed after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Towton" title="Battle of Towton">Battle of Towton</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Butler,_5th_Earl_of_Ormond" title="James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond">James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond</a> – 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1461) – executed after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Towton" title="Battle of Towton">Battle of Towton</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li>Lord Aubrey de Vere (1462) – son of <a href="/wiki/John_de_Vere,_12th_Earl_of_Oxford" title="John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford">John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford</a> (1462) – beheaded for treason at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/John_Tiptoft,_1st_Earl_of_Worcester" title="John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester">John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tuddenham" title="Thomas Tuddenham">Thomas Tuddenham</a> (1462) – beheaded for treason at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/John_Tiptoft,_1st_Earl_of_Worcester" title="John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester">John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_de_Vere,_12th_Earl_of_Oxford" title="John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford">John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford</a> (1462) – beheaded for treason at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/John_Tiptoft,_1st_Earl_of_Worcester" title="John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester">John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Beaufort,_3rd_Duke_of_Somerset" title="Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset">Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset</a> (1464) – beheaded after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hexham" title="Battle of Hexham">Battle of Hexham</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hungerford,_3rd_Baron_Hungerford" title="Robert Hungerford, 3rd Baron Hungerford">Robert Hungerford, 3rd Baron Hungerford</a> (1464) – beheaded at Newcastle after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hexham" title="Battle of Hexham">Battle of Hexham</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_de_Ros,_9th_Baron_de_Ros" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros">Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros</a> (1464) – beheaded at Newcastle after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hexham" title="Battle of Hexham">Battle of Hexham</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Wentworth" title="Philip Wentworth">Sir Philip Wentworth</a> (1464) – beheaded at Middleham after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hexham" title="Battle of Hexham">Battle of Hexham</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Tailboys" title="William Tailboys">William Tailboys</a> (1464) – executed after <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hexham" title="Battle of Hexham">Battle of Hexham</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li>Sir Touchus Winterton (1469) – executed at York by order of <a href="/wiki/Edward_IV" title="Edward IV">Edward IV</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li>Sir Charles Winterton (1469) – brother of above – executed at York by order of <a href="/wiki/Edward_IV" title="Edward IV">Edward IV</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Woodville,_1st_Earl_Rivers" title="Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers">Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Treasurer" title="Lord High Treasurer">Lord High Treasurer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lord_Warden_of_the_Cinque_Ports" title="Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports">Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports</a> (1469) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Neville,_16th_Earl_of_Warwick" title="Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick">Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick</a> for being a Yorkist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Woodville" title="John Woodville">Sir John Woodville</a> (1469) – son of above – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Neville,_16th_Earl_of_Warwick" title="Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick">Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick</a> for being a Yorkist</li> <li>Sir Richard Smith (1469) – executed for treason at Salisbury for being a Lancastrian; brother of Sir Hugh Courtenay and the 14th and 15th Earls of Devon who were all executed for being Lancastrians (in 1471, 1461 and 1471 respectively)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Herbert,_1st_Earl_of_Pembroke_(1468_creation)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1468 creation)">William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1468 creation)</a> (1469) – executed after <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Edgecote_Moor" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Edgecote Moor">Battle of Edgecote Moor</a> for being a Yorkist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Richard_Herbert" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Richard Herbert">Sir Richard Herbert</a> (1469) – executed after <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Edgecote_Moor" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Edgecote Moor">Battle of Edgecote Moor</a> for being a Yorkist, also illegitimate son of the above</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Stafford,_1st_Earl_of_Devon" title="Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon">Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon</a> (1469) – captured and executed in Bridgewater for being a Yorkist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Welles,_7th_Baron_Welles" title="Richard Welles, 7th Baron Welles">Richard Welles, 7th Baron Welles</a> (1470) – executed on battlefield of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Losecoat_Field" title="Battle of Losecoat Field">Losecote</a> by order of <a href="/wiki/Edward_IV" title="Edward IV">Edward IV</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li>Sir Lawrence Davis (1470) – executed on battlefield of Losecote by order of <a href="/wiki/Edward_IV" title="Edward IV">Edward IV</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Welles,_8th_Baron_Willoughby_de_Eresby" title="Robert Welles, 8th Baron Willoughby de Eresby">Robert Welles, 8th Baron Willoughby de Eresby</a> (1470) – son of Richard Welles; executed after <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Losecoat_Field" title="Battle of Losecoat Field">Battle of Losecoat</a> by order of <a href="/wiki/Edward_IV" title="Edward IV">Edward IV</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tiptoft,_1st_Earl_of_Worcester" title="John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester">John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Treasurer" title="Lord High Treasurer">Lord High Treasurer</a> (1470) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI_of_England" title="Henry VI of England">Henry VI</a> for being a Yorkist<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Beaufort,_4th_Duke_of_Somerset" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset">Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset</a> (1471) – beheaded after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tewkesbury" title="Battle of Tewkesbury">Battle of Tewkesbury</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Courtenay,_15th_Earl_of_Devon" title="John Courtenay, 15th Earl of Devon">John Courtenay, 15th Earl of Devon</a> (1471) – beheaded after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tewkesbury" title="Battle of Tewkesbury">Battle of Tewkesbury</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Courtenay_(died_1471)" title="Hugh Courtenay (died 1471)">Sir Hugh Courtenay</a> (1471) – beheaded after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tewkesbury" title="Battle of Tewkesbury">Battle of Tewkesbury</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gervase_Clifton_(1415%E2%80%931471)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gervase Clifton (1415–1471)">Sir Gervase Clifton</a> (1471) – beheaded after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tewkesbury" title="Battle of Tewkesbury">Battle of Tewkesbury</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li>Ben Glover (1471) – beheaded after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tewkesbury" title="Battle of Tewkesbury">Battle of Tewkesbury</a> for being a Lancastrian<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (The eldest son of <a href="/wiki/Delves_baronets" title="Delves baronets">Sir John Delves</a>, who was killed in the battle.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tresham_(speaker)" title="Thomas Tresham (speaker)">Sir Thomas Tresham</a> – MP for Buckinghamshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire, <a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Cambridgeshire_and_Huntingdonshire" class="mw-redirect" title="High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire">High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Sussex" class="mw-redirect" title="High Sheriff of Sussex">High Sheriff of Sussex</a>, <a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Surrey" title="High Sheriff of Surrey">High Sheriff of Surrey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Comptroller_of_the_Household" title="Comptroller of the Household">Comptroller of the Household</a>, <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)" title="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)">Speaker of the House of Commons</a> (1471) – beheaded after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tewkesbury" title="Battle of Tewkesbury">Battle of Tewkesbury</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Langstrother" title="John Langstrother">John Langstrother</a> – Grand Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (1471) – beheaded after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tewkesbury" title="Battle of Tewkesbury">Battle of Tewkesbury</a> for being a Lancastrian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Neville_(died_1471)" title="Thomas Neville (died 1471)">Sir Thomas Neville, the Bastard of Fauconberg</a> (1471) – executed at Middleham Castle or Southampton by order of <a href="/wiki/Edward_IV" title="Edward IV">Edward IV</a> for being a Lancastrian<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Vaughan_(soldier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Vaughan (soldier)">Sir Thomas Vaughan</a> (1483) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" title="Richard III of England">Richard III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hastings,_1st_Baron_Hastings" title="William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings">William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings</a> (1483) – executed near Tower Chapel by order of <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" title="Richard III of England">Richard III</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Stafford,_2nd_Duke_of_Buckingham" title="Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham">Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Constable_of_England" title="Lord High Constable of England">Lord High Constable</a> (1483) – beheaded at Shrewsbury by order of <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" title="Richard III of England">Richard III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Woodville,_2nd_Earl_Rivers" title="Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers">Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chief_Butler_of_England" title="Chief Butler of England">Chief Butler of England</a> (1483) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Castle" title="Pontefract Castle">Pontefract Castle</a> by order of <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" title="Richard III of England">Richard III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Grey" title="Richard Grey">Sir Richard Grey</a> (1483) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Castle" title="Pontefract Castle">Pontefract Castle</a> by order of <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" title="Richard III of England">Richard III</a></li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_St._Leger" title="Thomas St. Leger">Thomas St. Leger</a> (1483) – beheaded at Exeter for rebellion against his brother-in-law <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" title="Richard III of England">Richard III</a></li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/George_Browne_(died_1483)" title="George Browne (died 1483)">George Browne</a> (1483) – beheaded at Tower Hill for rebellion against <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" title="Richard III of England">Richard III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Catesby" title="William Catesby">William Catesby</a> (1485) – beheaded at Leicester by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII of England</a> after the Battle of Bosworth for being a Yorkist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Stanley_(Battle_of_Bosworth)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Stanley (Battle of Bosworth)">Sir William Stanley</a> (1495) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Tower_Hill" title="Tower Hill">Tower Hill</a> by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII of England</a> for supporting the pretender Perkin Warbeck<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Mountford_(died_1495)" title="Simon Mountford (died 1495)">Simon Mountford</a> (1495) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Tower_Hill" title="Tower Hill">Tower Hill</a> by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII of England</a> for supporting the pretender Perkin Warbeck</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Tuchet,_7th_Baron_Audley" title="James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley">James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley</a> (1497) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII of England</a> for opposing taxation<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Plantagenet,_17th_Earl_of_Warwick" title="Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick">Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick</a> – <a href="/wiki/List_of_heirs_to_the_English_throne" title="List of heirs to the English throne">Heir to the English Throne</a> from 9 April 1484 – March 1485 (1499) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII of England</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Tyrrell" title="James Tyrrell">Sir James Tyrrell</a> (1502) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII of England</a> for treason<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Sir Leon Taylor (1502) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII of England</a> for treason<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Dudley" title="Edmund Dudley">Sir Edmund Dudley</a> – <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)" title="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)">Speaker of the House of Commons</a> (1510) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for extortion<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Empson" title="Richard Empson">Sir Richard Empson</a> – <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)" title="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)">Speaker of the House of Commons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Duchy_of_Lancaster" title="Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster">Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster</a> (1510) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for extortion<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Barton_(privateer)" title="Andrew Barton (privateer)">Sir Andrew Barton</a> – <a href="/wiki/High_Admiral_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="High Admiral of Scotland">High Admiral of Scotland</a> (1511) – executed on capture as a pirate, according to ballads.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_de_la_Pole,_3rd_Duke_of_Suffolk" title="Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk">Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk</a> (1513) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> as Yorkist claimant to throne<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Stafford,_3rd_Duke_of_Buckingham" title="Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham">Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Steward" title="Lord High Steward">Lord High Steward</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Constable_of_England" title="Lord High Constable of England">Lord High Constable</a> (1521) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> as claimant to throne<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhys_ap_Gruffydd_(rebel)" title="Rhys ap Gruffydd (rebel)">Sir Rhys ap Gruffydd</a> (1531) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for conspiracy with Scotland<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Fisher" title="John Fisher">Saint John Fisher</a> – Catholic Bishop of Rochester (1535) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for refusing to take <a href="/wiki/Oath_of_Supremacy" title="Oath of Supremacy">Oath of Supremacy</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Lawrence_(martyr)" title="Robert Lawrence (martyr)">Robert Lawrence</a> (1535) – hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn for refusing to take <a href="/wiki/Oath_of_Supremacy" title="Oath of Supremacy">Oath of Supremacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_More" title="Thomas More">Saint Thomas More</a> – knight, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Duchy_of_Lancaster" title="Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster">Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster</a>, <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)" title="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)">Speaker of the House of Commons</a> (1535) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for refusing to take <a href="/wiki/Oath_of_Supremacy" title="Oath of Supremacy">Oath of Supremacy</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Boleyn" title="Anne Boleyn">Anne Boleyn</a> – Queen of England and Henry's Wife (1536) – executed by sword at the <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_London" title="Tower of London">Tower of London</a> by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_Treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High Treason">High Treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Boleyn,_Viscount_Rochford" title="George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford">George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford</a> (1536) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_Treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High Treason">High Treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Norris_(courtier)" title="Henry Norris (courtier)">Sir Henry Norris</a> – <a href="/wiki/Groom_of_the_stool" class="mw-redirect" title="Groom of the stool">Groom of the Stool</a> (1536) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_Treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High Treason">High Treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Brereton_(groom)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Brereton (groom)">Sir William Brereton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Bath">KB</a> – <a href="/wiki/Groom_of_the_Chamber" title="Groom of the Chamber">Groom of the Privy Chamber</a> (1536) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_Treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High Treason">High Treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Weston" title="Francis Weston">Sir Francis Weston</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gentleman_of_the_Privy_Chamber" class="mw-redirect" title="Gentleman of the Privy Chamber">Gentleman of the Privy Chamber</a> (1536) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_Treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High Treason">High Treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Smeaton" title="Mark Smeaton">Mark Smeaton</a> (1536) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Tower_Hill" title="Tower Hill">Tower Hill</a> by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_Treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High Treason">High Treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Darcy,_1st_Baron_Darcy_de_Darcy" title="Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy">Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a> (1537) – beheaded at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for being in the <a href="/wiki/Pilgrimage_of_Grace" title="Pilgrimage of Grace">Pilgrimage of Grace</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hussey,_1st_Baron_Hussey_of_Sleaford" title="John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford">John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chief_Butler_of_England" title="Chief Butler of England">Chief Butler of England</a> (1537) – beheaded at Lincoln by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for being in the <a href="/wiki/Pilgrimage_of_Grace" title="Pilgrimage of Grace">Pilgrimage of Grace</a></li> <li>Adam Chen (1537) – hanged, drawn and quartered by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for being in <a href="/wiki/Bigod%27s_Rebellion" class="mw-redirect" title="Bigod's Rebellion">Bigod's Rebellion</a></li> <li>Sir Colin Keast (1538) – beheaded at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for being in <a href="/wiki/Bigod%27s_Rebellion" class="mw-redirect" title="Bigod's Rebellion">Bigod's Rebellion</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Pole,_11th_Baron_Montacute" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Pole, 11th Baron Montacute">Henry Pole, 11th Baron Montacute</a> (1539) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for being in <a href="/wiki/Exeter_Conspiracy" title="Exeter Conspiracy">Exeter Conspiracy</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Courtenay,_1st_Marquess_of_Exeter" title="Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter">Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a>, <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_England" title="Privy Council of England">PC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Warden_of_the_Stannaries" title="Lord Warden of the Stannaries">Lord Warden of the Stannaries</a> (1539) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for being in <a href="/wiki/Exeter_Conspiracy" title="Exeter Conspiracy">Exeter Conspiracy</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Carew_(courtier)" title="Nicholas Carew (courtier)">Sir Nicholas Carew</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a>, <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_England" title="Privy Council of England">PC</a> – <a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_Horse" title="Master of the Horse">Master of the Horse</a> (1539) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for being in <a href="/wiki/Exeter_Conspiracy" title="Exeter Conspiracy">Exeter Conspiracy</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Dingley" title="Thomas Dingley">Sir Thomas Dingley</a> (1539) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for being implicated in the <a href="/wiki/Pilgrimage_of_Grace" title="Pilgrimage of Grace">Pilgrimage of Grace</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Fortescue_(martyr)" title="Adrian Fortescue (martyr)">Blessed Sir Adrian Fortescue</a> (1539) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for Catholicism<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Whiting_(Abbot)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Whiting (Abbot)">Richard Whiting, Abbot of Glastonbury</a> (1539) – executed on Glastonbury Tor by order of Thomas Cromwell (hung, drawn and quartered)</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maria_Stuart_Execution.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Maria_Stuart_Execution.jpg/220px-Maria_Stuart_Execution.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Maria_Stuart_Execution.jpg/330px-Maria_Stuart_Execution.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Maria_Stuart_Execution.jpg/440px-Maria_Stuart_Execution.jpg 2x" data-file-width="927" data-file-height="754" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1587</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Execution_of_Sir_Walter_Raleigh.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Execution_of_Sir_Walter_Raleigh.jpg/220px-Execution_of_Sir_Walter_Raleigh.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="304" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Execution_of_Sir_Walter_Raleigh.jpg/330px-Execution_of_Sir_Walter_Raleigh.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Execution_of_Sir_Walter_Raleigh.jpg 2x" data-file-width="431" data-file-height="595" /></a><figcaption>Raleigh just before being beheaded in 1618– an illustration from c. 1860</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Execution_of_Charles_I.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/The_Execution_of_Charles_I.jpg/220px-The_Execution_of_Charles_I.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/The_Execution_of_Charles_I.jpg/330px-The_Execution_of_Charles_I.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/The_Execution_of_Charles_I.jpg/440px-The_Execution_of_Charles_I.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1928" data-file-height="1707" /></a><figcaption>This contemporary German print depicts Charles I's decapitation in 1649.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monmouth%27s_Execution.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Monmouth%27s_Execution.gif/250px-Monmouth%27s_Execution.gif" decoding="async" width="250" height="392" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Monmouth%27s_Execution.gif 1.5x" data-file-width="255" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Execution of <a href="/wiki/James_Scott,_1st_Duke_of_Monmouth" title="James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth">James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth</a> by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Ketch" title="Jack Ketch">Jack Ketch</a> on Tower Hill, 15 July 1685 (O.S), in a popular print.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell,_1st_Earl_of_Essex" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex">Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a>, <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Most_Honourable_Privy_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council">PC</a> – <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_(England)" title="Secretary of State (England)">Secretary of State</a>, <a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_Rolls" title="Master of the Rolls">Master of the Rolls</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Privy_Seal" title="Lord Privy Seal">Lord Privy Seal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_the_Isle_of_Wight" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of the Isle of Wight">Governor of the Isle of Wight</a>, <a href="/wiki/Justice_in_Eyre" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice in Eyre">Justice in Eyre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Great_Chamberlain" title="Lord Great Chamberlain">Lord Great Chamberlain</a> (1540) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for treason<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Hungerford,_1st_Baron_Hungerford_of_Heytesbury" title="Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury">Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury</a> (1540) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High treason">high treason</a> and buggery<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grane" title="Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane">Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_Deputy_of_Ireland" title="Lord Deputy of Ireland">Lord Deputy of Ireland</a> (1541) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_Treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High Treason">High Treason</a> after allowing the escape of his nephew <a href="/wiki/Gerald_FitzGerald,_11th_Earl_of_Kildare" title="Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare">Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Pole,_8th_Countess_of_Salisbury" class="mw-redirect" title="Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury">Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury</a> (1541) – executed at Tower Green by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High treason">high treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Neville_II" title="John Neville II">Sir John Neville of Chevet</a> (1541) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Culpepper" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Culpepper">Sir Thomas Culpepper</a> (1541) – executed at Tyburn by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High treason">high treason</a> (adultery with the queen)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Howard" title="Catherine Howard">Catherine Howard</a> – Queen of England and Henry's Wife (1542) – executed at Tower Green by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_Treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High Treason">High Treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Boleyn,_Viscountess_Rochford" title="Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford">Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford</a> – wife of executed <a href="/wiki/George_Boleyn,_Viscount_Rochford" title="George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford">George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford</a> and sister-in-law of <a href="/wiki/Anne_Boleyn" title="Anne Boleyn">Anne Boleyn</a> (1542) – executed at Tower Green by order of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for High Treason<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Howard,_Earl_of_Surrey" title="Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey">Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a> – <a href="/wiki/Earl_Marshal" title="Earl Marshal">Earl Marshal</a> (1547) – executed at Tower Hill during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII of England</a> for treason<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Seymour,_1st_Baron_Seymour_of_Sudeley" title="Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley">Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley</a> – <a href="/wiki/Master-General_of_the_Ordnance" title="Master-General of the Ordnance">Master-General of the Ordnance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Warden_of_the_Cinque_Ports" title="Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports">Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Admiralty" class="mw-redirect" title="British Admiralty">Lord High Admiral</a>, also was the husband of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a> sixth wife and widow <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Parr" title="Catherine Parr">Catherine Parr</a> and the brother of Henry's third wife <a href="/wiki/Jane_Seymour" title="Jane Seymour">Jane Seymour</a> (1549) – beheaded for treason at Tower Hill during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward VI of England">Edward VI of England</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Seymour,_1st_Duke_of_Somerset" title="Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset">Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a>, <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Most_Honourable_Privy_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council">PC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earl_Marshal" title="Earl Marshal">Earl Marshal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Treasurer" title="Lord High Treasurer">Lord High Treasurer</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Admiralty" class="mw-redirect" title="British Admiralty">Lord High Admiral</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Protector" title="Lord Protector">Lord Protector</a> of England in the period between the death of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a> in 1547 and his own indictment in 1549 (1552) – executed at Tower Hill during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward VI of England">Edward VI of England</a> for plotting murder of John Dudley<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Arundell_of_Lanherne" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Arundell of Lanherne">Sir Thomas Arundell of Lanherne</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gentleman_of_the_Privy_Chamber" class="mw-redirect" title="Gentleman of the Privy Chamber">Gentleman of the Privy Chamber</a> (1552) – beheaded at Tower Hill during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward VI of England">Edward VI of England</a> for treason<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Fane,_Ralph_DNB_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fane,_Ralph_DNB-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Stanhope_(died_1552)" title="Michael Stanhope (died 1552)">Sir Michael Stanhope</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gentleman_of_the_Privy_Chamber" class="mw-redirect" title="Gentleman of the Privy Chamber">Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber</a> (1552) – beheaded at Tower Hill during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward VI of England">Edward VI of England</a> for treason<sup id="cite_ref-Fane,_Ralph_DNB_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fane,_Ralph_DNB-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dudley,_1st_Duke_of_Northumberland" title="John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland">John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> – Vice-Admiral, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Admiral" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Admiral">Lord Admiral</a>, Governor of <a href="/wiki/Boulogne" class="mw-redirect" title="Boulogne">Boulogne</a>, President of the Council in the Marches, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Great_Chamberlain" title="Lord Great Chamberlain">Lord Great Chamberlain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Steward" title="Lord Steward">Grand Master of the Royal Household</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earl_Marshal_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Earl Marshal of England">Earl Marshal of England</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_President_of_the_Council" title="Lord President of the Council">Lord President of the Council</a>, Warden General of the Scottish Marches (1553) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" title="Mary I of England">Mary I</a> for supporting Lady Jane Grey<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Gates" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Gates">Sir John Gates</a> <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Bath">KB</a> (1553) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" title="Mary I of England">Mary I</a> for supporting Lady Jane Grey<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Palmer_(died_1553)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Thomas Palmer (died 1553)">Sir Thomas Palmer</a> (1553) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" title="Mary I of England">Mary I</a> for supporting Lady Jane Grey<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey" title="Lady Jane Grey">Lady Jane Grey</a> – <a href="/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs" title="List of English monarchs">Queen of England</a> 10–19 July 1553 and <a href="/wiki/List_of_heirs_to_the_English_throne" title="List of heirs to the English throne">Heir to the English and Irish Thrones</a> 21 June – 10 July 1553 (1554) – executed at Tower Green by Mary I as claimant to throne<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Guilford_Dudley" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Guilford Dudley">Lord Guilford Dudley</a> – son of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland and <a href="/wiki/List_of_English_consorts" class="mw-redirect" title="List of English consorts">Royal Consort of England</a> 10–19 July 1553 (1554) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" title="Mary I of England">Mary I</a> for supporting Lady Jane Grey<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Grey,_1st_Duke_of_Suffolk" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk">Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a> – father of the above, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Leicestershire" title="Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire">Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Justice_in_Eyre" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice in Eyre">Justice in Eyre</a> (1554) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" title="Mary I of England">Mary I</a> for rebellion<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wyatt_the_younger" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Wyatt the younger">Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger</a> (1554) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" title="Mary I of England">Mary I</a> for rebellion<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Howard,_4th_Duke_of_Norfolk" title="Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk">Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a> – <a href="/wiki/Earl_Marshal" title="Earl Marshal">Earl Marshal</a> (1572) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/Ridolfi_plot" title="Ridolfi plot">Ridolfi plot</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Percy,_7th_Earl_of_Northumberland" title="Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland">Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland</a> (1572) – executed at York during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I of England</a> for taking part in the <a href="/wiki/Rising_of_the_North" title="Rising of the North">Rising of the North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Doughty_(explorer)" title="Thomas Doughty (explorer)">Sir Thomas Doughty</a> (1578) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Francis_Drake" title="Francis Drake">Sir Francis Drake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Arden" title="Edward Arden">Edward Arden</a> (1583) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Tyburn" title="Tyburn">Tyburn</a> during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High treason">high treason</a> (hanged, drawn and quartered)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Throckmorton" title="Francis Throckmorton">Sir Francis Throckmorton</a> (1584) – executed during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I of England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots" title="Mary, Queen of Scots">Mary, Queen of Scots</a> – <a href="/wiki/List_of_Scottish_monarchs" title="List of Scottish monarchs">Queen of Scots</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_French_consorts" class="mw-redirect" title="List of French consorts">Queen consort of France</a> (1587) – Executed during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I of England</a> for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Devereux,_2nd_Earl_of_Essex" title="Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex">Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> – <a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_Horse" title="Master of the Horse">Master of the Horse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earl_Marshal" title="Earl Marshal">Earl Marshal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Ireland" title="Lord Lieutenant of Ireland">Lord Lieutenant of Ireland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Custos_Rotulorum_of_Pembrokeshire" title="Custos Rotulorum of Pembrokeshire">Custos Rotulorum of Pembrokeshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Custos_Rotulorum_of_Staffordshire" title="Custos Rotulorum of Staffordshire">Custos Rotulorum of Staffordshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Master-General_of_the_Ordnance" title="Master-General of the Ordnance">Master-General of the Ordnance</a> (1601) – executed at Tower Hill during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_Treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High Treason">High Treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Blount" title="Christopher Blount">Sir Christopher Blount</a> (1601) – executed at Tower Hill during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_Treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High Treason">High Treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Danvers" title="Charles Danvers">Sir Charles Danvers</a> (1601) – executed at Tower Hill during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I of England</a> for <a href="/wiki/High_Treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High Treason">High Treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Raleigh" title="Walter Raleigh">Sir Walter Raleigh</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_Warden_of_the_Stannaries" title="Lord Warden of the Stannaries">Lord Warden of the Stannaries</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Cornwall" title="Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall">Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vice-Admiral_of_Devon" title="Vice-Admiral of Devon">Vice-Admiral of Devon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Captain_of_the_Yeomen_of_the_Guard" title="Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard">Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Jersey" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Jersey">Governor of Jersey</a> (1618) – executed in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Palace_Yard" title="Old Palace Yard">Old Palace Yard</a>, Westminster by orders of James VI</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mervyn_Touchet,_2nd_Earl_of_Castlehaven" class="mw-redirect" title="Mervyn Touchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven">Mervyn Touchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven</a> – executed at Tower Hill for aiding buggery (1631)<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth,_1st_Earl_of_Strafford" title="Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford">Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> – <a href="/wiki/Custos_Rotulorum_of_the_West_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire">Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Yorkshire" title="Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire">Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Ireland" title="Lord Lieutenant of Ireland">Lord Deputy of Ireland</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Lord_Lieutenants_of_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Lord Lieutenants of Ireland">Lord Lieutenant of Ireland</a> (1641) – executed at Tower Hill on orders of <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_England" title="Parliament of England">Parliament</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Alexander_Carew,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet">Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet</a> (1644) – executed at Tower Hill for treason on orders of <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_England" title="Parliament of England">Parliament</a><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Archbishop <a href="/wiki/William_Laud" title="William Laud">William Laud</a> – <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> (1645) – executed at Tower Hill on orders of Parliament<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hotham_the_younger" class="mw-redirect" title="John Hotham the younger">Sir John Hotham the Younger</a> (1645) – executed at Tower Hill on orders of Parliament for betraying the parliamentarians to the Royalists<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Hotham,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet">Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet the Elder</a>, of Scarborough (1645) – father of above – executed for betraying the parliamentarians to the Royalists<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I of England</a> and Scotland (1649) – executed in Whitehall, London by order of Cromwell's Parliament</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Hamilton,_1st_Duke_of_Hamilton" title="James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton">James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> – <a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_Horse" title="Master of the Horse">Master of the Horse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor_of_Scotland" title="Lord Chancellor of Scotland">Lord Chancellor of Scotland</a> (1649) – executed by order of Cromwell's Parliament for being a Royalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Capell,_1st_Baron_Capell_of_Hadham" title="Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham">Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham</a> (1649) – executed by order of Cromwell's Parliament for being a Royalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Rich,_1st_Earl_of_Holland" title="Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland">Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> – <a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_Horse" title="Master of the Horse">Master of the Horse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Captain_of_the_Yeomen_of_the_Guard" title="Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard">Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Berkshire" title="Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire">Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Middlesex" title="Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex">Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex</a>, <a href="/wiki/Justice_in_Eyre" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice in Eyre">Justice in Eyre</a> (1649) – executed in London by order of Cromwell's Parliament for being a Royalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hyde_(Royalist)" title="Henry Hyde (Royalist)">Sir Henry Hyde</a> (1650) – beheaded in London by order of Cromwell's Parliament for being a Royalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eusebius_Andrews_(Royalist)" title="Eusebius Andrews (Royalist)">Eusebius Andrews</a> (1650) – beheaded on Tower Hill for treason as a Royalist.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Stanley,_7th_Earl_of_Derby" title="James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby">James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Garter">KG</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Cheshire" title="Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire">Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Lancashire" title="Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire">Lancashire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vice-Admiral_of_Cheshire" title="Vice-Admiral of Cheshire">Vice-Admiral of Cheshire</a> (1651) – executed at Bolton by order of Cromwell's Parliament for being a Royalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gerard_(Royalist)" title="John Gerard (Royalist)">John Gerard</a> (1654) – beheaded on Tower Hill for plotting against <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Penruddock" title="John Penruddock">Sir John Penruddock</a> (1655) – executed at Exeter by order of Cromwell's Parliament for being a Royalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Henry_Slingsby,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Henry Slingsby, 1st Baronet">Sir Henry Slingsby, 1st Baronet</a> (1658) – beheaded on Tower Hill, London by order of Cromwell's Parliament for being a Royalist<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hewett_(chaplain)" title="John Hewett (chaplain)">Reverend Dr. John Huett</a> (1658) – beheaded on Tower Hill, London by order of Cromwell's Parliament for being a Royalist<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Clement" title="Gregory Clement">Gregory Clement</a> (1660) (MP) – hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross by <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a> as a regicide<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a> (1661) – posthumously beheaded at Tyburn by order of <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a> as a regicide.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Ireton" title="Henry Ireton">Henry Ireton</a> (1661) – posthumously beheaded at Tyburn by order of <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a> as a regicide.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bradshaw_(judge)" title="John Bradshaw (judge)">John Bradshaw</a> (1661) – posthumously beheaded at Tyburn by order of <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a> as a regicide.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Vane_the_Younger" title="Henry Vane the Younger">Sir Henry Vane the Younger</a> (1662) – executed at Tower Hill by order of <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a> for the death of his father Charles I<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Twyn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Twyn (page does not exist)">John Twyn</a> (1663) – hanged, drawn, quartered and beheaded (and head displayed on a Ludgate spike) for publishing an anonymous pamphlet justifying the right of rebellion against the king</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Howard,_1st_Viscount_Stafford" title="William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford">William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford</a> (1680) – executed at Tower Hill for <a href="/wiki/Treason" title="Treason">treason</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Plunkett" title="Oliver Plunkett">Saint Oliver Plunkett</a> (1681) – hanged, drawn and quartered in London for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Russell,_Lord_Russell" title="William Russell, Lord Russell">William Russell, Lord Russell</a> – <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Tavistock_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tavistock (UK Parliament constituency)">Tavistock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tavistock_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tavistock (UK Parliament constituency)">Tavistock</a> (1683) – executed for being involved with the <a href="/wiki/Rye_House_Plot" title="Rye House Plot">Rye House Plot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algernon_Sidney" title="Algernon Sidney">Algernon Sidney</a> (1683) – executed at Tower Hill for being involved with the <a href="/wiki/Rye_House_Plot" title="Rye House Plot">Rye House Plot</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Armstrong" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Thomas Armstrong">Sir Thomas Armstrong</a> – <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Stafford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stafford (UK Parliament constituency)">Stafford</a> (1684) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/George_Jeffreys,_1st_Baron_Jeffreys" title="George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys">Judge Jeffreys</a> for supporting Monmouth</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Scott,_1st_Duke_of_Monmouth" title="James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth">James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth</a> (1685) – executed at Tower Hill in reign of <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">James II</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sedgemoor" title="Battle of Sedgemoor">Battle of Sedgemoor</a> for treason<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Lady <a href="/wiki/Alice_Lisle" title="Alice Lisle">Alice Lisle</a> (1685) – executed at Winchester by Judge Jeffreys during the <a href="/wiki/Bloody_Assizes" title="Bloody Assizes">Bloody Assizes</a> for harbouring Monmouth rebels</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Fenwick,_3rd_Baronet" title="Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet">Sir John Fenwick</a> (1697) – Jacobite Rebel executed at Tower Hill in reign of <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William III</a> for treason<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="European_New_World_colonies">European New World colonies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: European New World colonies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For beheadings after the respective dates of independence, see the respective country headings.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Blackbeard_head_bow.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Blackbeard_head_bow.gif/220px-Blackbeard_head_bow.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Blackbeard_head_bow.gif/330px-Blackbeard_head_bow.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Blackbeard_head_bow.gif/440px-Blackbeard_head_bow.gif 2x" data-file-width="621" data-file-height="584" /></a><figcaption>Blackbeard's severed head hanging from <a href="/wiki/Robert_Maynard" title="Robert Maynard">Maynard</a>'s bowsprit</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Diego-de-Almagro.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Diego-de-Almagro.png/220px-Diego-de-Almagro.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Diego-de-Almagro.png/330px-Diego-de-Almagro.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Diego-de-Almagro.png/440px-Diego-de-Almagro.png 2x" data-file-width="568" data-file-height="713" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Diego de Almagro</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bolivia"><a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Bolivia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Ascencio_Padilla" title="Manuel Ascencio Padilla">Manuel Ascencio Padilla</a> (1816) – executed for insurrection after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Laguna" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of La Laguna">Battle of La Laguna</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brazil_2"><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Brazil"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (<a href="/wiki/Tiradentes" title="Tiradentes">Tiradentes</a>) (1792) – the body was quartered after his hanging for revolutionary activity</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="British_North_America"><a href="/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United_States" title="Colonial history of the United States">British North America</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: British North America"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wingina" title="Wingina">Wingina</a> (1586) – <a href="/wiki/Roanoke_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Roanoke tribe">Roanoke Indian</a> chief executed by first English settlers in the New World<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Wituwamat (1623) – Neponset warrior killed and beheaded by the <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Colony" title="Plymouth Colony">Plymouth Colony</a> Pilgrim/soldier <a href="/wiki/Miles_Standish" class="mw-redirect" title="Miles Standish">Miles Standish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metacomet" title="Metacomet">Metacomet</a> (1676) – <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a> <a href="/wiki/Wampanoag" title="Wampanoag">Wampanoag</a> chief "King Philip" executed for resisting white settlement</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackbeard" title="Blackbeard">Blackbeard</a> (1718) – famous pirate beheaded after capture at <a href="/wiki/Ocracoke_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Ocracoke Island">Ocracoke Island</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Haiti"><a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Haiti"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dutty_Boukman" title="Dutty Boukman">Dutty Boukman</a> (1791) – executed by the French for promoting a <a href="/wiki/Slave_rebellion" title="Slave rebellion">slave rebellion</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mexico"><a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Mexico"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_Hidalgo_y_Costilla" title="Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla">Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ignacio_Allende" title="Ignacio Allende">Ignacio Allende</a> (1811) – Mexican insurgents were beheaded after their <a href="/wiki/Execution_by_firing_squad" title="Execution by firing squad">execution by firing squad</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Panama"><a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Panama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vasco_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_de_Balboa" title="Vasco Núñez de Balboa">Vasco Núñez de Balboa</a> (1519) – <a href="/wiki/Conquistador" title="Conquistador">Spanish conquistador</a> who discovered the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a>. Executed by rivals <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro" title="Francisco Pizarro">Francisco Pizarro</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Arias_de_Avila" class="mw-redirect" title="Pedro Arias de Avila">Pedro Arias de Avila</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peru"><a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Peru"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Diego_de_Almagro" title="Diego de Almagro">Diego de Almagro</a> (1538) – executed in <a href="/wiki/Cusco" title="Cusco">Cuzco</a> by his rival <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro" title="Francisco Pizarro">Francisco Pizarro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blasco_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Vela" title="Blasco Núñez Vela">Blasco Núñez Vela</a> (1546) - Peru's first viceroy; killed in battle with <a href="/wiki/Gonzalo_Pizarro" title="Gonzalo Pizarro">Gonzalo Pizarro</a>, then decapitated, near <a href="/wiki/Quito" title="Quito">Quito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gonzalo_Pizarro" title="Gonzalo Pizarro">Gonzalo Pizarro</a> (1548) – executed in Peru by <a href="/wiki/Pedro_de_la_Gasca" title="Pedro de la Gasca">Pedro de la Gasca</a> for rebellion</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Finland">Finland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Finland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Mikael Munck (1599) – executed in the <a href="/wiki/%C3%85bo_Bloodbath" title="Åbo Bloodbath">Åbo Bloodbath</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahvo_Putkonen" title="Tahvo Putkonen">Tahvo Putkonen</a> (1825) – beheaded for murder; this was the last legal beheading in Finland.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="France">France</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancien_Régime"><span id="Ancien_R.C3.A9gime"></span><i><a href="/wiki/Ancien_R%C3%A9gime" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancien Régime">Ancien Régime</a></i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Ancien Régime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Olivier_IV_de_Clisson" title="Olivier IV de Clisson">Olivier IV de Clisson</a> (1343) – executed by <a href="/wiki/Philip_VI_of_France" title="Philip VI of France">Philip VI of France</a> for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_de_Montaigu" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean de Montaigu">Jean de Montaigu</a> (1409) – executed in Paris by <a href="/wiki/Charles_VI_of_France" title="Charles VI of France">Charles VI of France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comte_de_Montgomery" class="mw-redirect" title="Comte de Montgomery">Gabriel de Lorges, Comte de Montgomery</a> (1574) – executed by <a href="/wiki/Catherine_de%27_Medici" title="Catherine de' Medici">Catherine de' Medici</a> for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_de_Talleyrand-P%C3%A9rigord,_comte_de_Chalais" title="Henri de Talleyrand-Périgord, comte de Chalais">Henri de Talleyrand-Périgord, comte de Chalais</a> (1626) – executed in <a href="/wiki/Nantes" title="Nantes">Nantes</a> for conspiracy against <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu" title="Cardinal Richelieu">Cardinal Richelieu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Jean_de_la_Barre" title="François-Jean de la Barre">François-Jean de la Barre</a> (1766) – beheaded and burnt in <a href="/wiki/Abbeville" title="Abbeville">Abbeville</a> for blasphemy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Jacques_Pelletier" title="Nicolas Jacques Pelletier">Nicolas Jacques Pelletier</a> (1792) – highwayman convicted of murder. First person to be <a href="/wiki/Guillotine" title="Guillotine">guillotined</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French_Revolution"><a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: French Revolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Note: some estimates place the number of persons executed by the guillotine, particularly during the <a href="/wiki/Reign_of_Terror" title="Reign of Terror">Reign of Terror</a> (1793–1794), at 40,000. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ex%C3%A9cution_de_Marie_Antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ex%C3%A9cution_de_Marie_Antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793.jpg/220px-Ex%C3%A9cution_de_Marie_Antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ex%C3%A9cution_de_Marie_Antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793.jpg/330px-Ex%C3%A9cution_de_Marie_Antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ex%C3%A9cution_de_Marie_Antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793.jpg/440px-Ex%C3%A9cution_de_Marie_Antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1148" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Marie Antoinette, 1793</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:La_fourn%C3%A9e_des_Girondins_10-11-1793.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/La_fourn%C3%A9e_des_Girondins_10-11-1793.jpg/220px-La_fourn%C3%A9e_des_Girondins_10-11-1793.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/La_fourn%C3%A9e_des_Girondins_10-11-1793.jpg/330px-La_fourn%C3%A9e_des_Girondins_10-11-1793.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/La_fourn%C3%A9e_des_Girondins_10-11-1793.jpg/440px-La_fourn%C3%A9e_des_Girondins_10-11-1793.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1830" data-file-height="1245" /></a><figcaption>Execution of <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Pierre_Brissot" title="Jacques Pierre Brissot">Jacques Pierre Brissot</a>, 1793</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Execution_robespierre,_saint_just....jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Execution_robespierre%2C_saint_just....jpg/220px-Execution_robespierre%2C_saint_just....jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Execution_robespierre%2C_saint_just....jpg/330px-Execution_robespierre%2C_saint_just....jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Execution_robespierre%2C_saint_just....jpg/440px-Execution_robespierre%2C_saint_just....jpg 2x" data-file-width="3490" data-file-height="2270" /></a><figcaption>The execution of <a href="/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre" title="Maximilien Robespierre">Robespierre</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:L%27execution_de_Maximilien_de_Robespierre_a_la_guillotine.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/L%27execution_de_Maximilien_de_Robespierre_a_la_guillotine.jpg/220px-L%27execution_de_Maximilien_de_Robespierre_a_la_guillotine.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/L%27execution_de_Maximilien_de_Robespierre_a_la_guillotine.jpg/330px-L%27execution_de_Maximilien_de_Robespierre_a_la_guillotine.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/L%27execution_de_Maximilien_de_Robespierre_a_la_guillotine.jpg/440px-L%27execution_de_Maximilien_de_Robespierre_a_la_guillotine.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3080" data-file-height="4312" /></a><figcaption>The execution of <a href="/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre" title="Maximilien Robespierre">Robespierre</a>, 1794</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Cazotte" title="Jacques Cazotte">Jacques Cazotte</a> (1792) – guillotined for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnaud_II_de_La_Porte" title="Arnaud II de La Porte">Arnaud II de La Porte</a> (1792) – second political victim of the guillotine</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_III_Maximilien_de_la_Woestyne,_3rd_Marquess_of_Becelaere" title="François III Maximilien de la Woestyne, 3rd Marquess of Becelaere">François III Maximilien de la Woestyne, 3rd Marquess of Becelaere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_XVI_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis XVI of France">Louis XVI of France</a> (1793) – guillotined</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie_Antoinette" title="Marie Antoinette">Marie Antoinette</a> (1793) – guillotined for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles-Louis_Antiboul" title="Charles-Louis Antiboul">Charles-Louis Antiboul</a> (1793) – guillotined as a <a href="/wiki/Girondist" class="mw-redirect" title="Girondist">Girondist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Sylvain_Bailly" title="Jean Sylvain Bailly">Jean Sylvain Bailly</a> (1793) – Mayor of Paris. Guillotined</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madame_du_Barry" title="Madame du Barry">Madame du Barry</a> (1793) – guillotined for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Boyer-Fonfr%C3%A8de" title="Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède">Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède</a> (1793) - guillotined as a Girondist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Pierre_Brissot" title="Jacques Pierre Brissot">Jacques Pierre Brissot</a> (1793) – guillotined as a <a href="/wiki/Girondist" class="mw-redirect" title="Girondist">Girondist</a> for sedition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Corday" title="Charlotte Corday">Charlotte Corday</a> (1793) – guillotined for the murder of <a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat" title="Jean-Paul Marat">Jean-Paul Marat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Ducos" title="Jean-François Ducos">Jean-François Ducos</a> (1793) – guillotined as a Girondist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Fauchet_(revolutionist)" title="Claude Fauchet (revolutionist)">Claude Fauchet</a> (1793) – guillotined as a Girondist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armand_Gensonn%C3%A9" title="Armand Gensonné">Armand Gensonné</a> (1793) – guillotined as a Girondist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympe_de_Gouges" title="Olympe de Gouges">Olympe de Gouges</a> (1793) – guillotined for sedition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armand_de_Kersaint" title="Armand de Kersaint">Armand de Kersaint</a> (1793) – guillotined as a Girondist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_David_Alba_Lasource" title="Marc David Alba Lasource">Marc David Alba Lasource</a> (1793) – guillotined as a Girondist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madame_Roland" title="Madame Roland">Madame Roland</a> (1793) – guillotined as a Girondist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Rabaut_Saint-%C3%89tienne" title="Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne">Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne</a> (1793) – guillotined as a Girondist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Victurnien_Vergniaud" title="Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud">Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud</a> (1793) – guillotined as a Girondist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Admirat" title="Henri Admirat">Henri Admirat</a> (1794) – guillotined for attempted assassination of <a href="/wiki/Jean-Marie_Collot_d%27Herbois" title="Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois">Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eustache_Charles_d%27Aoust" title="Eustache Charles d'Aoust">Eustache Charles d'Aoust</a> (1794) – Army officer. Guillotined in Paris.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Auti%C3%A9" title="Jean-François Autié">Jean-François Autié</a> (1794) – Queen's hairdresser. Guillotined</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Jean_Marie_Barbaroux" title="Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux">Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux</a> (1794) – guillotined as a <a href="/wiki/Girondist" class="mw-redirect" title="Girondist">Girondist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandre_de_Beauharnais" title="Alexandre de Beauharnais">Alexandre de Beauharnais</a> (1794) – husband of Josephine (who remarried Napoleon); guillotined</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Carrier" title="Jean-Baptiste Carrier">Jean-Baptiste Carrier</a> (1794) – guillotined for war crimes in the Vendée</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Chabot" title="François Chabot">François Chabot</a> (1794) – guillotined for corruption in office</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Gaspard_Chaumette" title="Pierre Gaspard Chaumette">Pierre Gaspard Chaumette</a> (1794) - guillotined as an Hébertist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Ch%C3%A9nier" title="André Chénier">André Chénier</a> (1794) – poet, guillotined on trumped-up charges</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie_Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_de_Choiseul" title="Marie Thérèse de Choiseul">Thérèse de Choiseul-Stainville</a> (1794) – guillotined</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anacharsis_Cloots" title="Anacharsis Cloots">Anacharsis Cloots</a> (1794) – guillotined as an <a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9bertist" class="mw-redirect" title="Hébertist">Hébertist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Couthon" title="Georges Couthon">Georges Couthon</a> (1794) – guillotined by order of the <a href="/wiki/Committee_of_General_Security" title="Committee of General Security">Committee of General Security</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Danton" title="Georges Danton">Georges Danton</a> (1794) – guillotined for corruption</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camille_Desmoulins" title="Camille Desmoulins">Camille Desmoulins</a> (1794) – guillotined for plotting against <a href="/wiki/Robespierre" class="mw-redirect" title="Robespierre">Robespierre</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Dillon_(1750%E2%80%931794)" title="Arthur Dillon (1750–1794)">Arthur Dillon</a> (1794) – guillotined in Paris for conspiracy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Ulric_Dubuisson" title="Pierre-Ulric Dubuisson">Pierre-Ulric Dubuisson</a> (1794) – guillotined as an Hébertist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Duval_d%27Epr%C3%A9mesnil" title="Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil">Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil</a> (1794) – guillotined in Paris for support of the Monarchy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fabre_d%27%C3%89glantine" title="Fabre d'Églantine">Fabre d'Églantine</a> (1794) – guillotined for fraud</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princess_%C3%89lisabeth_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Princess Élisabeth of France">Madame Élisabeth</a> (1794)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marguerite-%C3%89lie_Guadet" title="Marguerite-Élie Guadet">Marguerite-Élie Guadet</a> (1794) – guillotined as a <a href="/wiki/Girondist" class="mw-redirect" title="Girondist">Girondist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Joseph_Gobel" title="Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel">Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel</a> (1794) – guillotined as an Hébertist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Hanriot" title="François Hanriot">François Hanriot</a> (1794) – guillotined with Robespierre</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_H%C3%A9bert" title="Jacques Hébert">Jacques Hébert</a> (1794) – Leader of Hébertist faction. Guillotined for sedition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie_Marguerite_Fran%C3%A7oise_H%C3%A9bert" title="Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert">Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert</a> (1794) - wife of Jacques Hébert, guillotined as Hébertist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier" title="Antoine Lavoisier">Antoine Lavoisier</a> (1794) – the "<a href="/wiki/Fathers_of_scientific_fields#Chemistry" class="mw-redirect" title="Fathers of scientific fields">Father of Modern Chemistry</a>"; guillotined for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Le_Bon" title="Joseph Le Bon">Joseph Le Bon</a> (1794) – guillotined for abuse of power</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine-Fran%C3%A7ois_Momoro" title="Antoine-François Momoro">Antoine-François Momoro</a> (1794) – guillotined as an Hébertist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippe_de_Noailles" title="Philippe de Noailles">Philippe de Noailles</a> (1794) – guillotined in Paris</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_de_Noailles_(1729%E2%80%931794)" title="Anne de Noailles (1729–1794)">Anne de Noailles</a> (1794) – guillotined in Paris</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Philippeaux" title="Pierre Philippeaux">Pierre Philippeaux</a> (1794) – guillotined for plotting against <a href="/wiki/Robespierre" class="mw-redirect" title="Robespierre">Robespierre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre" title="Maximilien Robespierre">Maximilien Robespierre</a> (1794) – guillotined by order of the <a href="/wiki/Committee_of_General_Security" title="Committee of General Security">Committee of General Security</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles-Philippe_Ronsin" title="Charles-Philippe Ronsin">Charles-Philippe Ronsin</a> (1794) – guillotined as an Hébertist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Antoine_de_Saint-Just" title="Louis Antoine de Saint-Just">Louis Antoine de Saint-Just</a> (1794) – guillotined by order of the <a href="/wiki/Committee_of_General_Security" title="Committee of General Security">Committee of General Security</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie_Jean_H%C3%A9rault_de_S%C3%A9chelles" class="mw-redirect" title="Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles">Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles</a> (1794) – guillotined for plotting against <a href="/wiki/Robespierre" class="mw-redirect" title="Robespierre">Robespierre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Guillaume_Thouret" title="Jacques Guillaume Thouret">Jacques Guillaume Thouret</a> (1794) – guillotined as a <a href="/wiki/Girondist" class="mw-redirect" title="Girondist">Girondist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Nicolas_Vincent" title="François-Nicolas Vincent">François-Nicolas Vincent</a> (1794) – guillotined as an Hébertist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Joseph_Westermann" title="François Joseph Westermann">François Joseph Westermann</a> (1794) – guillotined for plotting against <a href="/wiki/Robespierre" class="mw-redirect" title="Robespierre">Robespierre</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French_First_Republic"><a href="/wiki/French_First_Republic" title="French First Republic">French First Republic</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: French First Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>(after Reign of Terror) </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antoine_Quentin_Fouquier-Tinville" title="Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville">Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville</a> (1795) – guillotined for abuse of his post as Public Prosecutor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-No%C3%ABl_Babeuf" title="François-Noël Babeuf">François-Noël Babeuf</a> (1797) – guillotined at <a href="/wiki/Vend%C3%B4me" title="Vendôme">Vendôme</a> for involvement in <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_of_Equals" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy of Equals">Conspiracy of Equals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustin_Alexandre_Darth%C3%A9" title="Augustin Alexandre Darthé">Augustin Alexandre Darthé</a> (1797) - guillotined at Vendôme for involvement in <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_of_Equals" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy of Equals">Conspiracy of Equals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Ceracchi" title="Giuseppe Ceracchi">Giuseppe Ceracchi</a> (1801) – guillotined by <a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a> for his role in the <a href="/wiki/Conspiration_des_poignards" title="Conspiration des poignards">Conspiration des poignards</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Restoration">Restoration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Restoration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Four_Sergeants_of_La_Rochelle" title="Four Sergeants of La Rochelle">Four Sergeants of La Rochelle</a> (1822) – executed for treason against <a href="/wiki/Louis_XVIII_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis XVIII of France">Louis XVIII of France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Marco_Fieschi" title="Giuseppe Marco Fieschi">Giuseppe Marco Fieschi</a> (1836) – executed by guillotine for killing 18 people during an attempt to assassinate King <a href="/wiki/Louis-Philippe" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis-Philippe">Louis-Philippe</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French_Republic"><a href="/wiki/French_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="French Republic">French Republic</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: French Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prado_(murderer)" title="Prado (murderer)">Prado</a> (1888) – Guillotined at <a href="/wiki/La_Roquette_Prisons" title="La Roquette Prisons">La Rocquette, Paris</a> for murder</li> <li>François Claudius Koenigstein, known as <a href="/wiki/Ravachol" title="Ravachol">Ravachol</a> (1892) – guillotined for murder and anarchy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sante_Geronimo_Caserio" title="Sante Geronimo Caserio">Sante Geronimo Caserio</a> (1894) – executed for assassination of president <a href="/wiki/Marie_Fran%C3%A7ois_Sadi_Carnot" class="mw-redirect" title="Marie François Sadi Carnot">Marie François Sadi Carnot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abel_Pollet" title="Abel Pollet">Téophile Deroo, the "Pollet Band"</a> (1909) – guillotined in <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9thune" title="Béthune">Béthune</a> (<a href="/wiki/Nord-Pas-de-Calais" title="Nord-Pas-de-Calais">Nord-Pas-de-Calais</a>), by Anatole Deibler, for a series of murders</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abel_Pollet" title="Abel Pollet">Canut Vromant, the "Pollet Band"</a> (1909) – guillotined in Béthune (Nord-Pas-de-Calais), by Anatole Deibler, for a series of murders</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abel_Pollet" title="Abel Pollet">Auguste Pollet, the "Pollet Band"</a> (1909) – guillotined in Béthune (Nord-Pas-de-Calais), by Anatole Deibler, for a series of murders</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abel_Pollet" title="Abel Pollet">Abel Pollet, the "Pollet Band"</a> (1909) – guillotined in Béthune (Nord-Pas-de-Calais), by Anatole Deibler, for a series of murders</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Landru" class="mw-redirect" title="Henri Landru">Henri Landru</a> (1922) – executed for serial murder</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Gorguloff" title="Paul Gorguloff">Paul Gorguloff</a> (1932) – executed in Paris for assassination of President <a href="/wiki/Paul_Doumer" title="Paul Doumer">Paul Doumer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugen_Weidmann" title="Eugen Weidmann">Eugen Weidmann</a> (1939) – executed for murder; last public execution by guillotine in France</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Fesch" title="Jacques Fesch">Jacques Fesch</a> (1957) – executed in Paris for killing a policeman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Ranucci" title="Christian Ranucci">Christian Ranucci</a> (1976) – guillotined in <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a> for murder</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Carrein" title="Jérôme Carrein">Jérôme Carrein</a> (1977) – guillotined in <a href="/wiki/Douai" title="Douai">Douai</a> for murder</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi" title="Hamida Djandoubi">Hamida Djandoubi</a> (1977) – guillotined in Marseille for murder – last execution in France, last execution in Western world to be carried out by beheading, and last execution by guillotine anywhere in the world</li> <li>Hervé Cornara (2015) – murder linked to terrorism in <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a> by Yassin Salhi in the <a href="/wiki/Saint-Quentin-Fallavier_attack" title="Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack">Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty" title="Murder of Samuel Paty">Samuel Paty</a> (2020) – teacher decapitated after he was falsely accused of showing a <i><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo" title="Charlie Hebdo">Charlie Hebdo</a></i> caricature of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a> during a lesson.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Georgia">Georgia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Georgia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Demetre_II_of_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="Demetre II of Georgia">Demetre II</a> (1289) – executed by the Mongol <a href="/wiki/Arghun_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Arghun Khan">Arghun Khan</a> for rebellion</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Germany">Germany</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Germany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-20th_century">Pre-20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Pre-20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rehbein_Wittenborch_Hinrichtung.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Rehbein_Wittenborch_Hinrichtung.png/220px-Rehbein_Wittenborch_Hinrichtung.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Rehbein_Wittenborch_Hinrichtung.png/330px-Rehbein_Wittenborch_Hinrichtung.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Rehbein_Wittenborch_Hinrichtung.png/440px-Rehbein_Wittenborch_Hinrichtung.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="413" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Johann Wittenborg, 1363</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hinrichtung.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Hinrichtung.jpg/220px-Hinrichtung.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Hinrichtung.jpg/330px-Hinrichtung.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Hinrichtung.jpg/440px-Hinrichtung.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1191" data-file-height="789" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Pirates in Hamburg, 1573</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Priscillian" title="Priscillian">Priscillian</a> (385) – beheaded for heresy at <a href="/wiki/Trier" title="Trier">Trier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wittenborg" title="Johann Wittenborg">Johann Wittenborg</a> (1363) – beheaded in <a href="/wiki/L%C3%BCbeck" title="Lübeck">Lübeck</a> for dereliction of duty after naval defeat by Denmark.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_St%C3%B6rtebeker" title="Klaus Störtebeker">Klaus Störtebeker</a> (1400) – beheaded for piracy against the <a href="/wiki/Hanseatic_League" title="Hanseatic League">Hanseatic League</a> in Hamburg</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_M%C3%BCntzer" title="Thomas Müntzer">Thomas Müntzer</a> (1525) – beheaded after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Frankenhausen" title="Battle of Frankenhausen">Battle of Frankenhausen</a> during <a href="/wiki/German_Peasants%27_War" title="German Peasants' War">German Peasants' War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Haetzer" title="Ludwig Haetzer">Ludwig Haetzer</a> (1529) – executed in <a href="/wiki/Konstanz" title="Konstanz">Konstanz</a> for <a href="/wiki/Anabaptism" title="Anabaptism">Anabaptist</a> radicalism (but technically for adultery)</li> <li>Thomas von Imbroich (1558) – beheaded for heresy in <a href="/wiki/Cologne" title="Cologne">Cologne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Kratz_von_Scharffenstein" title="Johann Philipp Kratz von Scharffenstein">Johann Philipp Kratz von Scharffenstein</a> (1635) – beheaded for treason in <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a> after defecting to the <a href="/wiki/Swedish_Empire" title="Swedish Empire">Swedish Empire</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War" title="Thirty Years' War">Thirty Years' War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Ulrich_von_Schaffgotsch" title="Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch">Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch</a> (1635) – beheaded for treason in <a href="/wiki/Regensburg" title="Regensburg">Regensburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Hermann_von_Katte" title="Hans Hermann von Katte">Hans Hermann von Katte</a> (1730) – beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Kostrzyn_nad_Odr%C4%85" title="Kostrzyn nad Odrą">Küstrin</a> for helping <a href="/wiki/Frederick_the_Great" title="Frederick the Great">Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia</a> in an attempt to flee to <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Great Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schinderhannes" title="Schinderhannes">Schinderhannes</a> (1803) – guillotined in <a href="/wiki/Mainz" title="Mainz">Mainz</a> for armed robbery and other crimes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Sand" title="Karl Ludwig Sand">Karl Ludwig Sand</a> (1820) – beheaded for the murder of <a href="/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue" title="August von Kotzebue">August von Kotzebue</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mannheim" title="Mannheim">Mannheim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_H%C3%B6del" title="Max Hödel">Max Hödel</a> (1878) – executed for attempting to assassinate Emperor <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilhelm I">Wilhelm I</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Weimar_Republic"><a href="/wiki/Weimar_Republic" title="Weimar Republic">Weimar Republic</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Weimar Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Rupert Fischer (1924) – Murderer; first to be guillotined by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Reichhart" title="Johann Reichhart">Johann Reichhart</a> who executed 3165 condemned<sup id="cite_ref-SO1_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SO1-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fritz_Haarmann" title="Fritz Haarmann">Fritz Haarmann</a> (1925) – The Butcher (or Vampire) of Hanover; guillotined in <a href="/wiki/Hanover" title="Hanover">Hanover</a> for murder</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_K%C3%BCrten" title="Peter Kürten">Peter Kürten</a> (1931) – The Vampire of Düsseldorf; guillotined in Cologne for murder</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nazi_Germany"><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Nazi Germany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bruno_Tesch_(antifascist)" title="Bruno Tesch (antifascist)">Bruno Tesch</a> (1933) – executed in Altona with three others after "<a href="/wiki/Altona_Bloody_Sunday" title="Altona Bloody Sunday">Altona Bloody Sunday</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marinus_van_der_Lubbe" title="Marinus van der Lubbe">Marinus van der Lubbe</a> (1934) – guillotined in <a href="/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a> for starting the <a href="/wiki/Reichstag_fire" title="Reichstag fire">Reichstag fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benita_von_Falkenhayn" title="Benita von Falkenhayn">Benita von Falkenhayn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Renate_von_Natzmer" title="Renate von Natzmer">Renate von Natzmer</a> (1935) – executed by axe in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> for espionage for <a href="/wiki/Second_Polish_Republic" title="Second Polish Republic">Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Andr%C3%A9_(politician)" title="Edgar André (politician)">Edgar Josef André</a> (1936) – beheaded in Hamburg for treasonous involvement in the Reichstag Fire</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Hirsch" title="Helmut Hirsch">Helmut Hirsch</a> (1937) – executed in Berlin for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lilo_Herrmann" class="mw-redirect" title="Lilo Herrmann">Lilo Herrmann</a> (1938) – guillotined in Berlin for treason</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Kusserow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wilhelm Kusserow (page does not exist)">Wilhelm Kusserow</a> (1940) – Jehovah's Witness beheaded for refusing to serve in German military service</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Bavaud" title="Maurice Bavaud">Maurice Bavaud</a> (1941) – guillotined in Berlin for attempting to assassinate Hitler</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmuth_H%C3%BCbener" title="Helmuth Hübener">Helmuth Hübener</a> (1942) – guillotined in Berlin for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilse_St%C3%B6be" title="Ilse Stöbe">Ilse Stöbe</a> (1942) – guillotined in Berlin for treason via <a href="/wiki/Red_Orchestra_(espionage)" title="Red Orchestra (espionage)">Red Orchestra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Kusserow" title="Wolfgang Kusserow">Wolfgang Kusserow</a> (1942) – Jehovah's Witness beheaded for refusing to serve in German military service</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franz_J%C3%A4gerst%C3%A4tter" title="Franz Jägerstätter">Franz Jägerstätter</a> (1943) – guillotined in Berlin as a conscientious objector</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Restituta" class="mw-redirect" title="Maria Restituta">Maria Restituta</a> (1943) – guillotined for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cato_Bontjes_van_Beek" title="Cato Bontjes van Beek">Cato Bontjes van Beek</a> (1943) – guillotined in Berlin for conspiracy to commit treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mildred_Harnack" title="Mildred Harnack">Mildred Harnack</a> (1943) – American born; guillotined in Berlin for anti-Nazi activity via <a href="/wiki/Red_Orchestra_(espionage)" title="Red Orchestra (espionage)">Red Orchestra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophie_Scholl" title="Sophie Scholl">Sophie Scholl</a> (1943) – guillotined for treason via <a href="/wiki/White_Rose" title="White Rose">White Rose</a> resistance group</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Scholl" title="Hans Scholl">Hans Scholl</a> (1943) – brother of above – guillotined for treason via <a href="/wiki/White_Rose" title="White Rose">White Rose</a> resistance group</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christoph_Probst" title="Christoph Probst">Christoph Probst</a> (1943) – guillotined for treason via <a href="/wiki/White_Rose" title="White Rose">White Rose</a> resistance group</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willi_Graf" title="Willi Graf">Willi Graf</a> (1943) – guillotined for treason via <a href="/wiki/White_Rose" title="White Rose">White Rose</a> resistance group</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Schmorell" class="mw-redirect" title="Alex Schmorell">Alex Schmorell</a> (1943) – guillotined for treason via <a href="/wiki/White_Rose" title="White Rose">White Rose</a> resistance group</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Huber" title="Kurt Huber">Kurt Huber</a> (1943) – guillotined for treason via <a href="/wiki/White_Rose" title="White Rose">White Rose</a> resistance group</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_and_Elise_Hampel" title="Otto and Elise Hampel">Otto and Elise Hampel</a> (1943) – guillotined in Berlin for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Musa_C%C3%A4lil" title="Musa Cälil">Musa Cälil</a> (1944) – guillotined in <a href="/wiki/Pl%C3%B6tzensee_Prison" title="Plötzensee Prison">Plötzensee Prison, Berlin</a>, for anti-Nazi activities</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werner_Seelenbinder" title="Werner Seelenbinder">Werner Seelenbinder</a> (1944) – beheaded with an axe, for being a communist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Lorenz" title="Friedrich Lorenz">Friedrich Lorenz</a> (1944) – beheaded by Nazi party at <a href="/wiki/Halle_(Saale)" title="Halle (Saale)">Halle an der Saale</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Great_Britain">Great Britain</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Great Britain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For beheadings before the <a href="/wiki/Union_of_1707" class="mw-redirect" title="Union of 1707">Union of 1707</a>, see <a href="#England">§ England</a>, <a href="#Scotland">§ Scotland</a>, and <a href="#Wales">§ Wales</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Execution_of_Lord_Lovat.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Execution_of_Lord_Lovat.JPG/220px-Execution_of_Lord_Lovat.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Execution_of_Lord_Lovat.JPG/330px-Execution_of_Lord_Lovat.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Execution_of_Lord_Lovat.JPG/440px-Execution_of_Lord_Lovat.JPG 2x" data-file-width="566" data-file-height="399" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Lord Lovat, 1747</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jeremiah_Brandreths_head.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Jeremiah_Brandreths_head.jpg/220px-Jeremiah_Brandreths_head.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Jeremiah_Brandreths_head.jpg/330px-Jeremiah_Brandreths_head.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Jeremiah_Brandreths_head.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="550" /></a><figcaption>Jeremiah Brandreth's head, 1817</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Gordon,_6th_Viscount_of_Kenmure" title="William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure">William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure</a> (1716) – executed at Tower Hill as a <a href="/wiki/Jacobitism" title="Jacobitism">Jacobite</a> Rebel<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Radclyffe,_3rd_Earl_of_Derwentwater" title="James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater">James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater</a> (1716) – executed at Tower Hill as a Jacobite Rebel<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Elphinstone,_6th_Lord_Balmerinoch" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerinoch">Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerinoch</a> (1746) – beheaded at Tower Hill as a Jacobite supporter of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart" title="Charles Edward Stuart">Prince Charles Edward Stuart</a>, he was taken prisoner at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden" title="Battle of Culloden">Culloden</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Boyd,_4th_Earl_of_Kilmarnock" title="William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock">William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock</a> (1746) – beheaded at Tower Hill as a Jacobite supporter of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart" title="Charles Edward Stuart">Prince Charles Edward Stuart</a>, he was taken prisoner at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden" title="Battle of Culloden">Culloden</a><sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Radclyffe" title="Charles Radclyffe">Charles Radclyffe</a>, titular 5th Earl of Derwentwater (1746) – executed at Tower Hill as a Jacobite Rebel<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Fraser,_11th_Lord_Lovat" title="Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat">Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat</a> (1747) – executed at Tower Hill as a prominent veteran Jacobite supporter of Prince <a href="/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart" title="Charles Edward Stuart">Charles Edward Stuart</a>. Although too old to participate in the <a href="/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745" title="Jacobite rising of 1745">1745 Rising</a>, he was chosen by the British Crown for execution in lieu of his youthful son, who had actually led <a href="/wiki/Clan_Fraser" title="Clan Fraser">Clan Fraser</a> for the Jacobite cause<sup id="cite_ref-CP_18-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_Brandreth" title="Jeremiah Brandreth">Jeremiah Brandreth</a> (1817) – hanged and beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a> for treason; followed by William Turner and Issac Ludlam, the last British decapitations by axe</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Thistlewood" title="Arthur Thistlewood">Arthur Thistlewood</a> and the four other <a href="/wiki/Cato_Street_Conspiracy" title="Cato Street Conspiracy">Cato Street Conspirators</a> (1820) – hanged and beheaded outside <a href="/wiki/Newgate_Prison" title="Newgate Prison">Newgate Prison</a> for treason. A surgical knife was used to remove the heads.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Wilson_(revolutionary)" title="James Wilson (revolutionary)">James Wilson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Hardie_(radical)" title="Andrew Hardie (radical)">Andrew Hardie</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Baird_(revolutionary)" title="John Baird (revolutionary)">John Baird</a> (1820) were hanged and beheaded for treason for their involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Radical_War" title="Radical War">Radical War</a>. A hatchet was used to perform the decapitation. These were the last three people to be hanged and beheaded in the United Kingdom.</li> <li>Jolanta Bledaite (2008) – Lithuanian immigrant, tortured and killed in Scotland<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Gerald Mellin (2008) – tied a rope around his neck and connected it to a tree before driving away in his sports car to commit suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>David Phyall (2008) – see <a href="/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths#21st_century" class="mw-redirect" title="List of unusual deaths">List of unusual deaths</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Rigby" class="mw-redirect" title="Lee Rigby">Lee Rigby</a> (2013) – decapitated by Islamists who ran him over with a car before decapitating him.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Cawthorne_Haines" class="mw-redirect" title="David Cawthorne Haines">David Cawthorne Haines</a> (2014) – decapitated in the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Desert" title="Syrian Desert">Syro-Arabian desert</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hungary">Hungary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Hungary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Hunyadi" class="mw-redirect" title="László Hunyadi">László Hunyadi</a> (1457) – executed by <a href="/wiki/Ladislaus_V" class="mw-redirect" title="Ladislaus V">Ladislaus V</a> for plotting against him</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurgen_Margaryan" class="mw-redirect" title="Gurgen Margaryan">Gurgen Margaryan</a> (2004) – beheaded in his sleep by Azerbaijani Lieutenant <a href="/wiki/Ramil_Safarov" title="Ramil Safarov">Ramil Safarov</a> during a NATO summit in Budapest. Safarov stated during both his interrogation and trial that he murdered Margaryan because he was of <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> descent.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Safarov was later pardoned upon extradition by the President of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ilham_Aliyev" title="Ilham Aliyev">Ilham Aliyev</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_K%C3%A1d%C3%A1r" title="János Kádár">János Kádár</a> (2007) – posthumously beheaded by grave desecrater(s).<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="India">India</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: India"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hemchandra_Vikramaditya" class="mw-redirect" title="Hemchandra Vikramaditya">Hemchandra Vikramaditya</a>, also known as Hemu (1556) – after being wounded by <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Mughal_Empire" title="Army of the Mughal Empire">Mughal army</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Panipat" title="Second Battle of Panipat">Second Battle of Panipat</a>, Hemu was beheaded by <a href="/wiki/Bairam_Khan" title="Bairam Khan">Bairam Khan</a>, a commander-in-chief of the Mughal army</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guru_Tegh_Bahadur" title="Guru Tegh Bahadur">Guru Tegh Bahadur</a> (1675) – ninth guru of <a href="/wiki/Sikhs" title="Sikhs">Sikhs</a> executed in <a href="/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a> by order of Mughal emperor <a href="/wiki/Aurangzeb" title="Aurangzeb">Aurangzeb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_de_Brito" class="mw-redirect" title="John de Brito">Saint John de Brito</a> (1693) – Portuguese <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Jesuit</a> <a href="/wiki/Missionary" title="Missionary">missionary</a> executed in India for preaching Christianity</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raja_Dahir" class="mw-redirect" title="Raja Dahir">Raja Dahir</a> (711/712) – executed on command of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Qasim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad bin Qasim">Muhammad bin Qasim</a> after Dahir's <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sindh" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Sindh">Kingdom of Sindh</a> was defeated</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mourya_Sawant" title="Mourya Sawant">Mourya Sawant</a> (1912) – last Ranes was beheaded by Portuguese. Mourya Sawant was <a href="/wiki/Hindus" title="Hindus">Hindu</a> martyr who struggled against Portuguese and he also against forced conversion of the Goans to Christianity</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmishes" title="2013 India–Pakistan border skirmishes">2013 India–Pakistan border skirmishes</a> – two <a href="/wiki/Indian_Army" title="Indian Army">Indian Army</a> soldiers, Lance Naik Hemraj and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh were killed and their bodies were apparently found mutilated, with one decapitated by <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Army" title="Pakistan Army">Pakistan Army</a> soldiers</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Indonesia">Indonesia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Indonesia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regreg_War" title="Regreg War">Bhre Wirabhumi</a> (1406); son of <a href="/wiki/Hayam_Wuruk" title="Hayam Wuruk">Hayam Wuruk</a>; beheaded by Bhra Narapati after trying to flee.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demang_Lehman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Demang Lehman (page does not exist)">Demang Lehman</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demang_Lehman" class="extiw" title="id:Demang Lehman">id</a>]</span> (1864); leader of <a href="/wiki/Banjarmasin_War" title="Banjarmasin War">Banjarmasin War</a>, executed by hanging and later his head was decapitated and brought to the Netherlands.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Iraq">Iraq</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Iraq"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancient_Mesopotamia">Ancient Mesopotamia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Ancient Mesopotamia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Teumman" title="Teumman">Teumman</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Elam" title="Elam">Elam</a> (653 BC) – executed by the conquering Assyrian <a href="/wiki/Ashubanipal" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashubanipal">Ashubanipal</a> at the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Til-Tuba&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Battle of Til-Tuba (page does not exist)">Battle of Til-Tuba</a>; his son Tammaritu was also beheaded</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Umayyad_era">Umayyad era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Umayyad era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Imam" title="Imam">Imam</a> <a href="/wiki/Husayn_ibn_Ali" title="Husayn ibn Ali">Husayn ibn Ali</a> and his 72 companions (680) – at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Karbala" title="Battle of Karbala">Battle of Karbala</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abbasid_era">Abbasid era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Abbasid era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Walid_ibn_Tarif_al-Shaybani" title="Al-Walid ibn Tarif al-Shaybani">Al-Walid ibn Tarif al-Shaybani</a>, was a Kharijite rebel leader. In 794, he launched a rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate, but was defeated, killed, and beheaded in 795.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ja%27far_al-Barmaki" class="mw-redirect" title="Ja'far al-Barmaki">Ja'far al-Barmaki</a> (803) – Vizier executed on the orders Caliph <a href="/wiki/Harun_al-Rashid" title="Harun al-Rashid">Harun al-Rashid</a> (r. 786–809).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Amin" title="Al-Amin">Al-Amin</a>, the sixth Abbasid Caliph (813) – beheaded on 27 September 813 during the conflict.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Musta%27in" title="Al-Musta'in">Al-Musta'in</a>, the twelfth Abbasid caliph (866) – beheaded on the orders of his cousin <a href="/wiki/Al-Mu%27tazz" title="Al-Mu'tazz">al-Mu'tazz</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern">Modern</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Modern"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shosei_Koda" title="Shosei Koda">Shosei Koda</a> (2004) – Japanese citizen beheaded by terrorists</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Sun-il" title="Kim Sun-il">Kim Sun-il</a> (2004) – South Korean citizen beheaded by terrorists</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Bigley" class="mw-redirect" title="Kenneth Bigley">Kenneth Bigley</a> (2004) – UK citizen beheaded by terrorists</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nick_Berg" class="mw-redirect" title="Nick Berg">Nick Berg</a> (2004) – US citizen beheaded by terrorists</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_Armstrong" class="mw-redirect" title="Eugene Armstrong">Eugene Armstrong</a> (2004) – US citizen beheaded by terrorists</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Hensley" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack Hensley">Jack Hensley</a> (2004) – US citizen beheaded by terrorists</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barzan_Ibrahim_al-Tikriti" title="Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti">Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti</a> (2007) – <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>'s half brother decapitated during hanging for crimes against humanity</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Iceland">Iceland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Iceland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Arason" class="mw-redirect" title="Jon Arason">Jon Arason</a> (1550) – was the last Icelandic Roman Catholic <a href="/wiki/Bishop" title="Bishop">bishop</a> and poet, who was executed in his struggle against the imposition of the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a> in <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Iran">Iran</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Iran"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Execution_of_Buqa.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Execution_of_Buqa.jpg/220px-Execution_of_Buqa.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Execution_of_Buqa.jpg/330px-Execution_of_Buqa.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Execution_of_Buqa.jpg/440px-Execution_of_Buqa.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1013" data-file-height="988" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Buqa</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buqa" title="Buqa">Buqa</a> (1289) – Grand Vizier. Executed for treason.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ireland">Ireland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ascall_mac_Ragnaill" title="Ascall mac Ragnaill">Ascall mac Ragnaill</a> (1171) – beheaded after capture when attempting to capture <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tigern%C3%A1n_Ua_Ruairc" title="Tigernán Ua Ruairc">Tigernán Ua Ruairc</a> (1172) – beheaded on <a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Ward" title="Hill of Ward">Hill of Ward</a>, Meath during a parlay with <a href="/wiki/Hugh_de_Lacy,_Lord_of_Meath" title="Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath">Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornelius_Grogan" title="Cornelius Grogan">Cornelius Grogan</a> (1798) – hanged and beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Wexford" title="Wexford">Wexford</a> for taking part in the <a href="/wiki/Irish_rebellion_of_1798" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish rebellion of 1798">Irish rebellion of 1798</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Colclough" title="John Henry Colclough">John Henry Colclough</a> (1798) – hanged and beheaded in Wexford for taking part in the <a href="/wiki/Irish_rebellion_of_1798" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish rebellion of 1798">Irish rebellion of 1798</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagenal_Beauchamp_Harvey" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagenal Beauchamp Harvey">Bagenal Beauchamp Harvey</a> (1798) – hanged and beheaded in Wexford for taking part in the <a href="/wiki/Irish_rebellion_of_1798" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish rebellion of 1798">Irish rebellion of 1798</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kelly_of_Killanne" title="John Kelly of Killanne">John Kelly</a> (1798) – hanged and beheaded in Wexford for taking part in the <a href="/wiki/Irish_rebellion_of_1798" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish rebellion of 1798">Irish rebellion of 1798</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Murphy_(priest)" title="John Murphy (priest)">John Murphy (priest)</a> (1798) – hanged and beheaded in Tullow for taking part in the <a href="/wiki/Irish_rebellion_of_1798" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish rebellion of 1798">Irish rebellion of 1798</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Israel">Israel</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Israel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BNF,_Mss_fr_68,_folio_399.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/BNF%2C_Mss_fr_68%2C_folio_399.jpg/220px-BNF%2C_Mss_fr_68%2C_folio_399.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/BNF%2C_Mss_fr_68%2C_folio_399.jpg/330px-BNF%2C_Mss_fr_68%2C_folio_399.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/BNF%2C_Mss_fr_68%2C_folio_399.jpg 2x" data-file-width="435" data-file-height="395" /></a><figcaption>Death of <a href="/wiki/Raynald_of_Ch%C3%A2tillon" title="Raynald of Châtillon">Raynald of Châtillon</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shimon_ben_Gamliel" class="mw-redirect" title="Shimon ben Gamliel">Shimon ben Gamliel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ishmael_ben_Elisha_ha-Kohen" class="mw-redirect" title="Ishmael ben Elisha ha-Kohen">Ishmael ben Elisha ha-Kohen</a> (70) – two rabbis among the <a href="/wiki/Ten_Martyrs" title="Ten Martyrs">Ten Martyrs</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_de_Tremelay" title="Bernard de Tremelay">Bernard de Tremelay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grand_Masters_of_the_Knights_Templar" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Masters of the Knights Templar">Grand Master of the Knights Templar</a> (1153) – killed and beheaded at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ascalon" title="Battle of Ascalon">Battle of Ascalon</a> by Egyptians.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raynald_of_Ch%C3%A2tillon" title="Raynald of Châtillon">Raynald of Châtillon</a> (1187) – executed by <a href="/wiki/Saladin" title="Saladin">Saladin</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hattin" title="Battle of Hattin">Battle of Hattin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerard_de_Ridefort" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerard de Ridefort">Gerard de Ridefort</a>, Grand Master of the Knights Templar (1189) – executed by <a href="/wiki/Saladin" title="Saladin">Saladin</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Acre_(1189%E2%80%931191)" title="Siege of Acre (1189–1191)">Battle of Acre</a></li> <li>2,700 Muslim prisoners (1191) – beheaded on orders of <a href="/wiki/Richard_I_of_England" title="Richard I of England">Richard I of England</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Acre_(1189%E2%80%931191)" title="Siege of Acre (1189–1191)">Battle of Acre</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Italy">Italy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Italy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eug%C3%A8ne_Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix_019.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix_019.jpg/250px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix_019.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="319" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix_019.jpg/375px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix_019.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix_019.jpg/500px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix_019.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2024" data-file-height="2581" /></a><figcaption><i>The Execution of Marino Faliero</i>, <a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix" title="Eugène Delacroix">Eugène Delacroix</a>, 1827.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancient_Rome">Ancient Rome</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Ancient Rome"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Appuleius_Saturninus" title="Lucius Appuleius Saturninus">Lucius Appuleius Saturninus</a> (100 BC) – radical <a href="/wiki/Tribune_of_the_plebs" title="Tribune of the plebs">tribune</a>; <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Rabirius" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaius Rabirius">Gaius Rabirius</a> toyed with his severed head at a dinner party</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Antonius_(orator)" title="Marcus Antonius (orator)">Marcus Antonius</a> (87 BC) – grandfather of <a href="/wiki/Marc_Antony" class="mw-redirect" title="Marc Antony">Marc Antony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Marius_Gratidianus" title="Marcus Marius Gratidianus">Marcus Marius Gratidianus</a> (82 BC) – <a href="/wiki/Praetor" title="Praetor">praetor</a> whose head was paraded through Rome after execution</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Marcius_Censorinus_(Marian)" title="Gaius Marcius Censorinus (Marian)">Gaius Marcius Censorinus (Marian)</a> (82 BC) – beheaded by <a href="/wiki/Sulla" title="Sulla">Sulla</a>, his head was sent to <a href="/wiki/Preneste" class="mw-redirect" title="Preneste">Preneste</a> to lower <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Marius_the_Younger" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaius Marius the Younger">Gaius Marius the Younger</a>'s troop's morale</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus" title="Marcus Licinius Crassus">Marcus Licinius Crassus</a> (53 BC) – general, politician and richest man then in the world – beheaded posthumously after his defeat in <a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Publius_Licinius_Crassus_(son_of_triumvir)" title="Publius Licinius Crassus (son of triumvir)">Publius Licinius Crassus</a> (53 BC) – son of Marcus Licinius Crassus – beheaded posthumously in Parthia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a> the Great (48 BC) – general, politician and member of the <a href="/wiki/First_Triumvirate" title="First Triumvirate">First Triumvirate</a> – assassinated and beheaded posthumously in Egypt</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gnaeus_Pompeius_(son_of_Pompey_the_Great)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gnaeus Pompeius (son of Pompey the Great)">Gnaeus Pompeius</a> (45 BC) – Pompey's son – executed for treason by <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titus_Labienus" title="Titus Labienus">Titus Labienus</a> (45 BC) – general, politician and one of <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a>'s foremost subordinates – Killed and beheaded posthumously at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Munda" title="Battle of Munda">Battle of Munda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Trebonius" title="Gaius Trebonius">Gaius Trebonius</a> (43 BC) – politician and general, tortured and beheaded by <a href="/wiki/Publius_Cornelius_Dolabella_(consul_44_BC)" title="Publius Cornelius Dolabella (consul 44 BC)">Publius Cornelius Dolabella</a>; his head was kicked around like a football by Dolabella's soldiers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a> (43 BC) – politician, lawyer and Rome's greatest orator – executed by order of Marc Anthony</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Antonius_Antyllus" title="Marcus Antonius Antyllus">Marcus Antonius Antyllus</a> (30 BC) – son of Marc Antony – executed by Octavian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claudia_Octavia" title="Claudia Octavia">Claudia Octavia</a> (62) – first wife of Emperor <a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero</a>, by whom she was divorced, banished, and executed – beheaded posthumously</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galba" title="Galba">Galba</a> (69) – assassinated Roman emperor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Sixtus_II" title="Pope Sixtus II">Pope Sixtus II</a> (258) – Christian Martyr executed during the persecution of Christians ordered by Emperor <a href="/wiki/Valerian_(emperor)" title="Valerian (emperor)">Valerian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stilicho" title="Stilicho">Stilicho</a> (408) – executed in coup d'état after Gothic invasion</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthemius" title="Anthemius">Anthemius</a> (472) – Emperor, assassinated by <a href="/wiki/Ricimer" title="Ricimer">Ricimer</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medieval_Italy">Medieval Italy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Medieval Italy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Giordano_d%27Anglano" class="mw-redirect" title="Giordano d'Anglano">Giordano d'Anglano</a> (1267) – beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Brolo" title="Brolo">Brolo</a>, Sicily by <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_Naples" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles I of Naples">Charles of Anjou</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tagliacozzo" title="Battle of Tagliacozzo">Battle of Tagliacozzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conradin" title="Conradin">Conradin</a>, King of Sicily (1268) – executed in <a href="/wiki/Naples" title="Naples">Naples</a> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_Naples" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles I of Naples">Charles of Anjou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_I_of_Baden" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick I of Baden">Frederick I of Baden</a>, Margrave of Baden (1268) – executed in Naples by <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_Naples" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles I of Naples">Charles of Anjou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fra%27_Moriale" class="mw-redirect" title="Fra' Moriale">Fra' Moriale</a> (1354) – beheaded in Rome</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marino_Faliero" title="Marino Faliero">Marino Faliero</a>, Doge of Venice (1355) – executed for a failed <a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Sterz" title="Albert Sterz">Albert Sterz</a> (1366) – <a href="/wiki/Condottiero" title="Condottiero">condottiero</a> beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Perugia" title="Perugia">Perugia</a> for treachery</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giovanni_da_Barbiano" title="Giovanni da Barbiano">Giovanni da Barbiano</a> (1399) – condottiero beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Bologna" title="Bologna">Bologna</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_Italy">Later Italy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Later Italy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mastrotitta.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Mastrotitta.jpg" decoding="async" width="216" height="290" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="216" data-file-height="290" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Bugatti" title="Giovanni Battista Bugatti">Giovanni Battista Bugatti</a>, executioner of the Papal States between 1796 and 1865, carried out 516 executions</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antongaleazzo_Bentivoglio" title="Antongaleazzo Bentivoglio">Antongaleazzo Bentivoglio</a> (1435) – beheaded in Bologna as a rebel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gian_Paolo_Baglioni" title="Gian Paolo Baglioni">Gian Paolo Baglioni</a> (1520) – beheaded in Rome for attempted assassination</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Carafa,_Duke_of_Paliano" title="Giovanni Carafa, Duke of Paliano">Giovanni Carafa, Duke of Paliano</a> (1561) – beheaded by order of <a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_IV" title="Pope Pius IV">Pope Pius IV</a><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pietro_Carnesecchi" title="Pietro Carnesecchi">Pietro Carnesecchi</a> (1567) – beheaded by the <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> <a href="/wiki/Inquisition" title="Inquisition">inquisition</a> for heresy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beatrice_Cenci" title="Beatrice Cenci">Beatrice Cenci</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucrezia_Peroni&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lucrezia Peroni (page does not exist)">Lucrezia Peroni</a> (1599) – beheaded by sword in Rome for murder of Francesco Cenci</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferrante_Pallavicino" title="Ferrante Pallavicino">Ferrante Pallavicino</a> (1644) – beheaded at <a href="/wiki/Avignon" title="Avignon">Avignon</a> for blasphemy by order of <a href="/wiki/Pope_Urban_VIII" title="Pope Urban VIII">Pope Urban VIII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felice_Orsini" title="Felice Orsini">Felice Orsini</a> (1858) – executed by <a href="/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoléon III">Napoléon III</a> for attempting to assassinate him</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Japan">Japan</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Japan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beheaded_Kim_Okgyun.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Beheaded_Kim_Okgyun.png/220px-Beheaded_Kim_Okgyun.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Beheaded_Kim_Okgyun.png/330px-Beheaded_Kim_Okgyun.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Beheaded_Kim_Okgyun.png/440px-Beheaded_Kim_Okgyun.png 2x" data-file-width="2437" data-file-height="1665" /></a><figcaption>Head of Kim Okgyun, 1894</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Home_islands">Home islands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Home islands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ishida_Mitsunari" title="Ishida Mitsunari">Ishida Mitsunari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daimy%C5%8D" class="mw-redirect" title="Daimyō">daimyō</a> and general (1600) – beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Kyoto" title="Kyoto">Kyoto</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sekigahara" title="Battle of Sekigahara">Battle of Sekigahara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ankokuji_Ekei" title="Ankokuji Ekei">Ankokuji Ekei</a>, Buddhist monk and ally of Mitsunari (1600) – beheaded in Kyoto after the Battle of <a href="/wiki/Sekigahara" class="mw-redirect" title="Sekigahara">Sekigahara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konishi_Yukinaga" title="Konishi Yukinaga">Konishi Yukinaga</a> (1600), ally of Mitsunari – beheaded in Kyoto after the Battle of <a href="/wiki/Sekigahara" class="mw-redirect" title="Sekigahara">Sekigahara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asano_Naganori" title="Asano Naganori">Asano Naganori</a>, lord of the <a href="/wiki/Forty-seven_Ronin" class="mw-redirect" title="Forty-seven Ronin">Forty-seven Ronin</a> (1701) – ordered to commit <a href="/wiki/Seppuku" title="Seppuku">seppuku</a> (hara-kiri) followed by beheading</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kondo_Isami" class="mw-redirect" title="Kondo Isami">Kondo Isami</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Shinsengumi" title="Shinsengumi">Shinsengumi</a> (1868) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Itabashi" title="Itabashi">Itabashi</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beheading_of_Leonard_George_Siffleet.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Beheading_of_Leonard_George_Siffleet.jpg/170px-Beheading_of_Leonard_George_Siffleet.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Beheading_of_Leonard_George_Siffleet.jpg/255px-Beheading_of_Leonard_George_Siffleet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Beheading_of_Leonard_George_Siffleet.jpg/340px-Beheading_of_Leonard_George_Siffleet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1186" data-file-height="1754" /></a><figcaption>Sergeant Siffleet's execution at Aitape, 1943</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Japanese-occupied_territories_(20th_century)"><span id="Japanese-occupied_territories_.2820th_century.29"></span>Japanese-occupied territories (20th century)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: Japanese-occupied territories (20th century)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ellis_Newton" class="mw-redirect" title="William Ellis Newton">William Ellis Newton</a>, VC (1934) – <a href="/wiki/Royal_Australian_Air_Force" title="Royal Australian Air Force">Royal Australian Air Force</a> pilot beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a> by Japanese forces</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Siffleet" title="Leonard Siffleet">Leonard Siffleet</a> (1943) – Australian WWII commando, captured by partisan tribesmen, tortured and beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a> by Japanese soldiers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_James_Woodbridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanley James Woodbridge">Stanley James Woodbridge</a> (1945) – British <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> crewman captured and beheaded by Japanese forces in <a href="/wiki/Yangon" title="Yangon">Rangoon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Burma" title="Japanese occupation of Burma">Burma</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_Japan">Modern Japan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: Modern Japan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kenji_Goto" title="Kenji Goto">Kenji Goto</a> (2015) – journalist beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> by <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a> militants after the breakdown of negotiations for his release</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Jordan">Jordan</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: Jordan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Walid_II" title="Al-Walid II">Al-Walid II</a>, Umayyad <a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">caliph</a> (744) – killed and beheaded by his cousin <a href="/wiki/Yazid_III" title="Yazid III">Yazid III</a>. Yazid had Walid's head hoisted "on a lance and paraded around <a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Korea">Korea</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: Korea"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Columba Kim (1839) – beheaded for Christian religious convictions</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurent-Marie-Joseph_Imbert" class="mw-redirect" title="Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert">Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert</a> (1839) – beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Saenamteo" title="Saenamteo">Saenamteo</a> for being Christian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Okgyun" class="mw-redirect" title="Kim Okgyun">Kim Okgyun</a>, Korean activist (1894) – assassinated and beheaded at sea by <a href="/wiki/Hong_Jong-u" title="Hong Jong-u">Hong Jong-u</a> due to leading <a href="/wiki/Gapsin_Coup" title="Gapsin Coup">Gapsin Revolution</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Libya">Libya</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: Libya"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2015_kidnapping_and_beheading_of_Copts_in_Libya" title="2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya">21 Coptic Egyptians</a> (2015) – On February 15, 2015, 21 kidnapped <a href="/wiki/Copts" title="Copts">Coptic Egyptian Christians</a> were beheaded by <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_in_Libya" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State in Libya">ISIS Militants</a> on a beach in <a href="/wiki/Tripolitania" title="Tripolitania">Tripolitania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>. One of ISIS's media wings, <a href="/wiki/AlHayat_Media_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="AlHayat Media Center">Al-Hayat Media Center</a> released a five-minute video of the beheadings, titled "a message signed with blood to <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">the nation of the cross</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>30 Ethiopian Christians (2015) – On April 19, 2015, 30 kidnapped <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Ethiopia" title="Christianity in Ethiopia">Ethiopian Christians</a> in two groups were killed by ISIS. Half of them were beheaded on a beach in <a href="/wiki/Cyrenaica" title="Cyrenaica">Cyrenaica</a> and the other half in a desert in <a href="/wiki/Fezzan" title="Fezzan">Fezzan</a>, were fatally shot by <a href="/wiki/Kalashnikov_rifle" title="Kalashnikov rifle">AK's</a>, the Christian killed by the ISIS member giving the speech was shot with a <a href="/wiki/Pistol" title="Pistol">pistol</a>. One of ISIS's media wings, Al-Furqan Media released a thirty-minute propaganda video including the killings, titled "until there came to them clear evidence".<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Netherlands/Belgium"><span id="Netherlands.2FBelgium"></span>Netherlands/Belgium</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: Netherlands/Belgium"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Van_Olden_Barneveldt_Verhoeven_1619.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Van_Olden_Barneveldt_Verhoeven_1619.gif/220px-Van_Olden_Barneveldt_Verhoeven_1619.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="289" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Van_Olden_Barneveldt_Verhoeven_1619.gif/330px-Van_Olden_Barneveldt_Verhoeven_1619.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Van_Olden_Barneveldt_Verhoeven_1619.gif/440px-Van_Olden_Barneveldt_Verhoeven_1619.gif 2x" data-file-width="470" data-file-height="618" /></a><figcaption>Beheading of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wijerd_Jelckama" title="Wijerd Jelckama">Wijerd Jelckama</a> (1523) – executed in <a href="/wiki/Leeuwarden" title="Leeuwarden">Leeuwarden</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Arumer_Zwarte_Hoop" title="Arumer Zwarte Hoop">Frisian rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_van_Stralen,_Lord_of_Merksem" title="Anthony van Stralen, Lord of Merksem">Anthony van Stralen, Lord of Merksem</a> (1568) – beheaded by the Governor, the Duke of Alba, at <a href="/wiki/Vilvoorde" title="Vilvoorde">Vilvoorde</a> for treason.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan_van_Casembroot" title="Jan van Casembroot">Jan van Casembroot</a> (1568) – beheaded by the Governor, the Duke of Alba, at Vilvoorde for treason.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamoral,_Count_of_Egmont" title="Lamoral, Count of Egmont">Lamoral, Count of Egmont</a> (1568) – beheaded in Brussels for treason.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_de_Montmorency,_Count_of_Horn" title="Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn">Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn</a> (1568) – beheaded in Brussels for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balthasar_G%C3%A9rard" title="Balthasar Gérard">Balthasar Gérard</a> (1584) – tortured and beheaded for assassinating <a href="/wiki/William_the_Silent" title="William the Silent">Willem of Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johan_van_Oldenbarnevelt" title="Johan van Oldenbarnevelt">Johan van Oldenbarnevelt</a> (1619) – executed in <a href="/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">the Hague</a> for Hollandic separatism by Prince Maurice</li> <li>Emile Ferfaille (1918) – guillotined in Furnes for murder – last guillotine execution</li> <li>Nabil Amzieb (2016) – beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a> by a Moroccan gang for conflicts in underground drug-war</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Norway">Norway</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=57" title="Edit section: Norway"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lisbeth_Nypan#Witch_trial" title="Lisbeth Nypan">Ole Nypan</a> (1670) – executed for witchcraft.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anders_Olson_Lysne" title="Anders Olson Lysne">Anders Olson Lysne</a> (1803) – executed for <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9" title="Lèse-majesté">lèse-majesté</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Westerstr%C3%B8m" title="Peter Westerstrøm">Peter Westerstrøm</a> (1809) – executed for mass murder.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aslak_H%C3%A6tta" title="Aslak Hætta">Aslak Hætta</a> (1854) – executed for murder.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mons_Somby" title="Mons Somby">Mons Somby</a> (1854) – executed for murder.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kristoffer_Nilsen_Svartb%C3%A6kken_Grindalen" title="Kristoffer Nilsen Svartbækken Grindalen">Kristoffer Nilsen Svartbækken Grindalen</a> (1876) – executed for murder and robbery, the last public execution in Norway.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pakistan">Pakistan</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=58" title="Edit section: Pakistan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Arab_Sind" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab Sind">Arab Sind</a> Province of Caliphate</b></li></ul> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Raja_Dahir" class="mw-redirect" title="Raja Dahir">Raja Dahir</a> (712) – executed on command of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Qasim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad bin Qasim">Muhammad bin Qasim</a> after Dahir's empire was defeated.</dd></dl> <ul><li><b>United Provinces of Agra and Oudh</b></li></ul> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Syed_Ahmad_Barelvi" title="Syed Ahmad Barelvi">Syed Ahmad Barelvi</a> (1831) – Sufi mujahideen who was beheaded by the Indian army in the Battle of Balakot</dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Islamic Republic of Pakistan</b></li></ul> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pearl" title="Daniel Pearl">Daniel Pearl</a> (2002) – American journalist killed by <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a>.</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Piotr_Sta%C5%84czak" title="Piotr Stańczak">Piotr Stańczak</a> (2009) – Polish engineer beheaded in Pakistan by <a href="/wiki/Radical_Islamic" class="mw-redirect" title="Radical Islamic">Radical Islamic</a> terrorists</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philippines">Philippines</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=59" title="Edit section: Philippines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following were all executed by ISIL-inspired terrorist group <a href="/wiki/Abu_Sayyaf" title="Abu Sayyaf">Abu Sayyaf</a>. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Sayyaf_beheading_incidents#List_of_incidents" title="Abu Sayyaf beheading incidents">Bernard Then</a> (2015)<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – Malaysian man who was kidnapped from a restaurant in <a href="/wiki/Sandakan" title="Sandakan">Sandakan</a>, Malaysia, brought over to <a href="/wiki/Parang,_Sulu" title="Parang, Sulu">Parang, Sulu</a>, and beheaded after ransom demands were not met</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hall_(Canadian_businessman)" title="Robert Hall (Canadian businessman)">Robert Hall</a> (2016) – Canadian welder held for ransom, after the resort he was staying at was raided by Abu Sayyaf militants. They demanded 300 million <a href="/wiki/Philippine_peso" title="Philippine peso">pesos</a> (around $6.5 million) for his release, and when the demand was not met, Hall was beheaded nine months later in <a href="/wiki/Patikul" title="Patikul">Patikul, Sulu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ridsdel" title="John Ridsdel">John Ridsdel</a> (2016) – Canadian businessman, also held for ransom at the same resort as Robert Hall. Ridsdel was beheaded on 25 April 2016, nine months after being held hostage</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Kantner" title="Jürgen Kantner">Jürgen Kantner</a> (2017) – German sailor ambushed and held for ransom, while out sailing with his wife, who was shot and killed. Abu Sayyaf militants demanded 30 million pesos ($600,000), and when the demand was not met, Kantner was beheaded</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Poland">Poland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=60" title="Edit section: Poland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kazimierz_%C5%81yszczy%C5%84ski" title="Kazimierz Łyszczyński">Kazimierz Łyszczyński</a> (1689) – executed in Warsaw by Christians for being atheist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rozalia_Lubomirska" title="Rozalia Lubomirska">Rozalia Lubomirska</a> (1794) – guillotined during <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Portugal">Portugal</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=61" title="Edit section: Portugal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diogo_de_Meneses&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Diogo de Meneses (page does not exist)">Diogo de Meneses</a> – Behead (or hanged) by orders of the <a href="/wiki/Fernando_%C3%81lvarez_de_Toledo,_3rd_Duke_of_Alba" title="Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba">Duke of Alba</a> during the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Portuguese_Succession" title="War of the Portuguese Succession">War of the Portuguese Succession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonor_Tom%C3%A1sia_de_T%C3%A1vora,_3rd_Marquise_of_T%C3%A1vora" title="Leonor Tomásia de Távora, 3rd Marquise of Távora">Leonor de Távora, 3rd Marquise of Távora</a> (1759) – Executed by high treason by orders of the <a href="/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A3o_Jos%C3%A9_de_Carvalho_e_Melo,_1st_Marquis_of_Pombal" title="Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal">Marquis of Pombal</a> during the <a href="/wiki/T%C3%A1vora_affair" title="Távora affair">Távora Affair</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Russia">Russia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=62" title="Edit section: Russia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_II_of_Vladimir" title="Yuri II of Vladimir">Yuri II of Vladimir</a> (1238) – beheaded after losing the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sit_River" title="Battle of the Sit River">Battle of the Sit River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philipp_Schall_von_Bell" title="Philipp Schall von Bell">Philipp Schall von Bell</a> (1560) – executed in captivity by order of <a href="/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible" title="Ivan the Terrible">Ivan the Terrible</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stenka_Razin" title="Stenka Razin">Stenka Razin</a> (1671) – quartered alive in Moscow for Cossack revolution</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Andreyevich_Khovansky_(Tararui)" title="Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (Tararui)">Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (Tararui)</a> (1682) – beheaded for involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_uprising_of_1682" title="Moscow uprising of 1682">Moscow uprising of 1682</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Tsykler" title="Ivan Tsykler">Ivan Tsykler</a> (1697) – quartered on charges of conspiracy against <a href="/wiki/Peter_the_Great" title="Peter the Great">Peter the Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Hamilton_(lady_in_waiting)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Hamilton (lady in waiting)">Mary Hamilton (lady in waiting)</a> (1719) – executed for infanticide and slandering <a href="/wiki/Catherine_I_of_Russia" title="Catherine I of Russia">Catherine I of Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemelyan_Pugachev" title="Yemelyan Pugachev">Yemelyan Pugachev</a> (1775) – quartered in Moscow for insurrection by <a href="/wiki/Catherine_II_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Catherine II of Russia">Catherine II of Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yevgeny_Rodionov" title="Yevgeny Rodionov">Yevgeny Rodionov</a> (1996) – beheaded by Chechen militants</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Saudi_Arabia">Saudi Arabia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=63" title="Edit section: Saudi Arabia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Prince <a href="/wiki/Faisal_bin_Musa%27id" class="mw-redirect" title="Faisal bin Musa'id">Faisal bin Musa'id</a> (1975) – for the assassination of his uncle, <a href="/wiki/Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Faisal of Saudi Arabia">King Faisal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juhayman_al-Otaybi" title="Juhayman al-Otaybi">Juhayman al-Otaybi</a> (1980) – Saudi Arabian terrorist beheaded for committing the 1979 <a href="/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure" title="Grand Mosque seizure">Grand Mosque seizure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Marshall_Johnson,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr.">Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr.</a> (2004) – American engineer killed by <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_on_the_Arabian_Peninsula" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula">Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rizana_Nafeek" title="Rizana Nafeek">Rizana Nafeek</a> (2013) – Sri Lankan woman for homicide</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scotland">Scotland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=64" title="Edit section: Scotland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For Scottish beheadings after 1707, see <a href="#Great_Britain">§ Great Britain</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Maiden_dsc05364.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/The_Maiden_dsc05364.jpg/220px-The_Maiden_dsc05364.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="388" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/The_Maiden_dsc05364.jpg/330px-The_Maiden_dsc05364.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/The_Maiden_dsc05364.jpg/440px-The_Maiden_dsc05364.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1416" data-file-height="2496" /></a><figcaption>The Scottish Maiden on display at the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Museum of Scotland">Museum of Scotland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donnchadh,_Earl_of_Lennox" title="Donnchadh, Earl of Lennox">Donnchadh, Earl of Lennox</a> (1425) – executed by orders of <a href="/wiki/James_I_of_Scotland" title="James I of Scotland">James I of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murdoch_Stewart,_Duke_of_Albany" title="Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany">Lord Walter Stewart and Lord Alexander Sewart</a> (1425) – executed by orders of <a href="/wiki/James_I_of_Scotland" title="James I of Scotland">James I of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murdoch_Stewart,_Duke_of_Albany" title="Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany">Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany</a> (1425) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/James_I_of_Scotland" title="James I of Scotland">James I of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Stewart,_Earl_of_Atholl" title="Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl">Walter Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl</a> (1437) – executed for his part in the murder of <a href="/wiki/James_I_of_Scotland" title="James I of Scotland">James I of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Douglas,_6th_Earl_of_Douglas" title="William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas">William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas</a> (1440) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Castle" title="Edinburgh Castle">Edinburgh Castle</a> on trumped-up charges in front of <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_Scotland" title="James II of Scotland">James II of Scotland</a></li> <li>Lord David Douglas (1440) – executed at Edinburgh Castle on trumped-up charges in front of <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_Scotland" title="James II of Scotland">James II of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Douglas,_Earl_of_Ormonde" title="Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde">Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde</a> (1455) – executed on the orders of <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_Scotland" title="James II of Scotland">James II of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Douglas,_Lord_of_Balvenie" title="John Douglas, Lord of Balvenie">John Douglas, Lord of Balvenie</a> (1463) – executed on the orders of <a href="/wiki/James_III_of_Scotland" title="James III of Scotland">James III of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Hamilton_of_Finnart" title="James Hamilton of Finnart">Sir James Hamilton of Finnart</a> – <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Work_to_the_Crown_of_Scotland" title="Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland">Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland</a> (1540) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/James_V_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="James V of Scotland">James V of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Douglas,_4th_Earl_of_Morton" title="James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton">James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton</a> (1581) – executed on the <a href="/wiki/Maiden_(beheading)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maiden (beheading)">Scottish maiden</a> for complicity in murder of <a href="/wiki/Lord_Darnley" title="Lord Darnley">Lord Darnley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ruthven,_1st_Earl_of_Gowrie" title="William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie">William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie</a> (1584) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/James_VI_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="James VI of Scotland">James VI of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Maxwell,_9th_Lord_Maxwell" title="John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell">John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell</a> (1613) – beheaded in Edinburgh for carrying out a revenge killing</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Stewart,_2nd_Earl_of_Orkney" title="Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney">Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney</a> (1615) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/James_VI_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="James VI of Scotland">James VI of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Gordon,_1st_Baronet,_of_Haddo" title="Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo">Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo</a> (1644) – executed on the <a href="/wiki/Maiden_(beheading)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maiden (beheading)">Scottish maiden</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Covenanters" title="Covenanters">Covenanters</a> for treason as a Royalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Campbell,_1st_Marquess_of_Argyll" title="Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll">Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll</a> (1661) – executed by order of <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles II of Scotland">Charles II of Scotland</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Maiden_(beheading)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maiden (beheading)">Scottish maiden</a> for treason</li> <li>Mrs Hamilton (1679) – beheaded for the murder of James Baillie, 2nd Lord Forrester<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Campbell,_9th_Earl_of_Argyll" title="Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll">Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll</a> (1685) – son of above; executed by order of <a href="/wiki/James_VII_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="James VII of Scotland">James VII of Scotland</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Maiden_(beheading)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maiden (beheading)">Scottish maiden</a> for treason</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godfrey_McCulloch" title="Godfrey McCulloch">Godfrey McCulloch</a> (1697) – executed on the <a href="/wiki/Maiden_(beheading)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maiden (beheading)">Scottish maiden</a> for murder; last man to be executed by the maiden</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Serbia">Serbia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=65" title="Edit section: Serbia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Prince <a href="/wiki/Lazar_of_Serbia" title="Lazar of Serbia">Lazar Hrebeljanović</a> (1389) – executed during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo" title="Battle of Kosovo">Battle of Kosovo</a> by order of <a href="/wiki/Bayezid_I" title="Bayezid I">Bayezid I</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milo%C5%A1_Obili%C4%87" title="Miloš Obilić">Miloš Obilić</a> (1389) – probably decapitated by order of <a href="/wiki/Bayezid_I" title="Bayezid I">Bayezid I</a> after assassinating <a href="/wiki/Murad_I" title="Murad I">Murad I</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-redjep_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-redjep-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksa_Nenadovi%C4%87" title="Aleksa Nenadović">Aleksa Nenadović</a> (1804) – executed in Valjevo during the <a href="/wiki/Slaughter_of_the_Knezes" title="Slaughter of the Knezes">Slaughter of the Knezes</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilija_Bir%C4%8Danin" title="Ilija Birčanin">Ilija Birčanin</a> (1804) – executed in Valjevo during the <a href="/wiki/Slaughter_of_the_Knezes" title="Slaughter of the Knezes">Slaughter of the Knezes</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kara%C4%91or%C4%91e" title="Karađorđe">Karađorđe</a> (1817) – Assassinated by order of his <a href="/wiki/Groomsman" title="Groomsman">groomsman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Milo%C5%A1_Obrenovi%C4%87" class="mw-redirect" title="Miloš Obrenović">Miloš Obrenović</a>. The cause of death itself was a substantial chest injuries caused by an <a href="/wiki/Axe" title="Axe">axe</a>, however, his body was immediately decapitated.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spain">Spain</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=66" title="Edit section: Spain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eulogius_of_Cordova" class="mw-redirect" title="Eulogius of Cordova">Eulogius of Cordova</a> (859) – executed by Muslim rulers of <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_C%C3%B3rdoba" class="mw-redirect" title="Emirate of Córdoba">Córdoba</a> for blasphemy</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lope_Fortu%C3%B1%C3%B3nez_de_Albero&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lope Fortuñónez de Albero (page does not exist)">Lope Fortuñónez de Albero</a> (1135) – executed by King of Aragon, <a href="/wiki/Ramiro_II_of_Aragon" title="Ramiro II of Aragon">Ramiro II</a>, for treason<sup id="cite_ref-Campana_de_Huesca,_La_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campana_de_Huesca,_La-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipedia_and_sources_that_mirror_or_use_it" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="This claim cites another Wikipedia article. 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(May 2019)">circular reference</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort%C3%BAn_Gal%C3%ADndez_de_Huesca&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fortún Galíndez de Huesca (page does not exist)">Fortún Galíndez de Huesca</a> (1135) – executed by King of Aragon, Ramiro II, for treason<sup id="cite_ref-Campana_de_Huesca,_La_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campana_de_Huesca,_La-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mart%C3%ADn_Gal%C3%ADndez_de_Ayerbe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Martín Galíndez de Ayerbe (page does not exist)">Martín Galíndez de Ayerbe</a> (1135) – executed by King of Aragon, Ramiro II, for treason<sup id="cite_ref-Campana_de_Huesca,_La_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campana_de_Huesca,_La-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bertr%C3%A1n_de_Ejea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bertrán de Ejea (page does not exist)">Bertrán de Ejea</a> (1135) – executed by King of Aragon, Ramiro II, for treason<sup id="cite_ref-Campana_de_Huesca,_La_49-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campana_de_Huesca,_La-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La_50-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Miguel_de_Rada_de_Perarr%C3%BAa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Miguel de Rada de Perarrúa (page does not exist)">Miguel de Rada de Perarrúa</a> (1135) – executed by King of Aragon, Ramiro II, for treason<sup id="cite_ref-Campana_de_Huesca,_La_49-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campana_de_Huesca,_La-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La_50-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%8D%C3%B1igo_L%C3%B3pez_de_Naval&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Íñigo López de Naval (page does not exist)">Íñigo López de Naval</a> (1135) – executed by King of Aragon, Ramiro II, for treason<sup id="cite_ref-Campana_de_Huesca,_La_49-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campana_de_Huesca,_La-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La_50-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecod%C3%ADn_de_Ruesta&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cecodín de Ruesta (page does not exist)">Cecodín de Ruesta</a> (1135) – executed by King of Aragon, Ramiro II, for treason<sup id="cite_ref-Campana_de_Huesca,_La_49-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campana_de_Huesca,_La-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La_50-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-La_Campana_de_Huesca,_La-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammed_VI,_Sultan_of_Granada" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammed VI, Sultan of Granada">Muhammed VI</a> (1362) – beheaded by <a href="/wiki/Peter_of_Castile" title="Peter of Castile">Peter I of Castille</a> with restored <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_V_of_Granada" title="Muhammad V of Granada">Muhammad V</a> as Sultan of Granada.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Bravo" title="Juan Bravo">Juan Bravo</a> (1521) – executed in <a href="/wiki/Villalar_de_los_Comuneros" title="Villalar de los Comuneros">Villalar de los Comuneros</a>, <a href="/wiki/Valladolid" title="Valladolid">Valladolid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Padilla" title="Juan de Padilla">Juan de Padilla</a> (1521) – executed in Villalar de los Comuneros, Valladolid</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_Maldonado" title="Francisco Maldonado">Francisco Maldonado</a> (1521) – executed in Villalar de los Comuneros, Valladolid</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Osorio_de_Acu%C3%B1a" title="Antonio Osorio de Acuña">Antonio Osorio de Acuña</a> (1526) – executed in <a href="/wiki/Simancas" title="Simancas">Simancas</a> for supporting the <a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros" title="Revolt of the Comuneros">Comunero Revolt</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Juan_de_Lanuza_y_Urrea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Juan de Lanuza y Urrea (page does not exist)">Juan de Lanuza y Urrea</a> (1591) – "Justicia de Aragón", beheaded by personal order of <a href="/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain" title="Philip II of Spain">Felipe II</a> on 20 December 1591, 89 days after swearing in his appointment.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rodrigo_Calderon" class="mw-redirect" title="Rodrigo Calderon">Rodrigo Calderon</a> (1621) – executed in <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eduardo_Montori_Sanz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eduardo Montori Sanz (page does not exist)">Eduardo Montori Sanz</a> (1996) – beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Ejea_de_los_Caballeros" title="Ejea de los Caballeros">Ejea de los Caballeros</a><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Mills-Westley" class="mw-redirect" title="Jennifer Mills-Westley">Jennifer Mills-Westley</a> (2011) – beheaded in a supermarket in <a href="/wiki/Los_Cristianos" title="Los Cristianos">Los Cristianos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tenerife" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sri_Lanka">Sri Lanka</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=67" title="Edit section: Sri Lanka"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Puviraja_Pandaram" title="Puviraja Pandaram">Puviraja Pandaram</a> (1591) – Hindu king who was beheaded by Portuguese. Portuguese, led by André Furtado as commander, mounted a military campaign against the Jaffna kingdom from Mannar and succeed for conquer Jaffna kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-Queyroz_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Queyroz-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keppetipola_Disawe" title="Keppetipola Disawe">Keppetipola Disawe</a> (1818) – beheaded by <a href="/wiki/British_Ceylon" title="British Ceylon">British Ceylon</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kandy" title="Kandy">Kandy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> for fighting for independence.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sweden">Sweden</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=68" title="Edit section: Sweden"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yngsj%C3%B6-murderer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Yngsj%C3%B6-murderer.jpg/250px-Yngsj%C3%B6-murderer.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Yngsj%C3%B6-murderer.jpg/375px-Yngsj%C3%B6-murderer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Yngsj%C3%B6-murderer.jpg/500px-Yngsj%C3%B6-murderer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2016" data-file-height="1356" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Anna Månsdotter. The <a href="/wiki/Executioner" title="Executioner">executioner</a> <a href="/wiki/Albert_Gustaf_Dahlman" title="Albert Gustaf Dahlman">Dalman</a> stands to the far left, hiding his axe behind his back.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mattias_Gregersson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mattias Gregersson (page does not exist)">Mattias Gregersson</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattias_Gregersson_(Lillie)" class="extiw" title="sv:Mattias Gregersson (Lillie)">sv</a>]</span> (1520) – Bishop of Strängnäs; first of about 100 to be executed by Danes in the <a href="/wiki/Stockholm_Bloodbath" title="Stockholm Bloodbath">Stockholm Bloodbath</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vincent_Henningsson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vincent Henningsson (page does not exist)">Vincent Henningsson</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincens_Henningsson" class="extiw" title="sv:Vincens Henningsson">sv</a>]</span> (1520) – Bishop of Skara; executed by Danes in the <a href="/wiki/Stockholm_Bloodbath" title="Stockholm Bloodbath">Stockholm Bloodbath</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C3%A5ns_Gren&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Måns Gren (page does not exist)">Måns Gren</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A5ns_Gren" class="extiw" title="sv:Måns Gren">sv</a>]</span> (1520) – Swedish nobleman; one of 15 noblemen executed by Danes in the <a href="/wiki/Stockholm_Bloodbath" title="Stockholm Bloodbath">Stockholm Bloodbath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grigory_Kotoshikhin" title="Grigory Kotoshikhin">Grigory Kotoshikhin</a> (1667) – Russian defected diplomat; executed in <a href="/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a> for the murder of a homeowner under the influence of alcohol.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Zippel" title="Anna Zippel">Anna Zippel</a> (1676) – executed in <a href="/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a> for witchcraft</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brita_Zippel" title="Brita Zippel">Brita Zippel</a> (1676) – sister of above; executed in Stockholm for witchcraft</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_Boy" title="Gävle Boy">Johan Johansson Griis</a> (1676) – witness in the trial against the above sisters; executed for perjury</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Eriksdotter" title="Anna Eriksdotter">Anna Eriksdotter</a> (1704) – beheaded for sorcery.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Johan_Anckarstr%C3%B6m" title="Jacob Johan Anckarström">Jacob Johan Anckarström</a> (1792) – executed for assassination of Gustav III</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metta_Fock" title="Metta Fock">Metta Fock</a> (1810) – executed for murder of her husband and children</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_M%C3%A5nsdotter" class="mw-redirect" title="Anna Månsdotter">Anna Månsdotter</a> (1890) – executed by axe for murder; last woman executed in Sweden</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Filip_Nordlund" title="John Filip Nordlund">John Filip Nordlund</a> (1900) – executed by axe in Västerås for mass murder</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johan_Alfred_Ander" title="Johan Alfred Ander">Johan Alfred Ander</a> (1910) – executed by guillotine in Stockholm for murder; last Swedish execution</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Syria">Syria</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=69" title="Edit section: Syria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Foley_(journalist)" title="James Foley (journalist)">James Foley</a> (2014) — American journalist beheaded in Raqqa, Syria by the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a>, specifically <a href="/wiki/Jihadi_John" title="Jihadi John">Mohammed Emwazi</a>, in retaliation for <a href="/wiki/International_military_intervention_against_the_Islamic_State" class="mw-redirect" title="International military intervention against the Islamic State">American airstrikes in Iraq</a>. His execution was filmed, in a <a href="/wiki/Beheading_video" title="Beheading video">beheading video</a> titled "A Message to America".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Sotloff" title="Steven Sotloff">Steven Sotloff</a> (2014) — beheaded in the Syro-Arabian desert by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, one month after the beheading of James Foley. His execution was filmed, and released with the title "<a href="/wiki/A_Second_Message_to_America" title="A Second Message to America">A Second Message to America</a>".</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Switzerland">Switzerland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=70" title="Edit section: Switzerland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Greifensee_Tschachtlan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Greifensee_Tschachtlan.jpg/220px-Greifensee_Tschachtlan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="299" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Greifensee_Tschachtlan.jpg/330px-Greifensee_Tschachtlan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Greifensee_Tschachtlan.jpg/440px-Greifensee_Tschachtlan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1146" data-file-height="1557" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Greifensee garrison</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildhans_von_Breitenlandenberg" class="extiw" title="de:Wildhans von Breitenlandenberg">Wildhans von Breitenlandenberg</a> and 61 companions (1444) – executed following the siege of <a href="/wiki/Greifensee,_Zurich" class="mw-redirect" title="Greifensee, Zurich">Greifensee</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Old_Z%C3%BCrich_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Zürich War">Old Zürich War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_G%C3%B6ldi" title="Anna Göldi">Anna Göldi</a> (1782) – executed as the "last witch in Switzerland"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Turkey">Turkey</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=71" title="Edit section: Turkey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Byzantine_era">Byzantine era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=72" title="Edit section: Byzantine era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Blaise" title="Saint Blaise">Saint Blaise</a> (316)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phocas" title="Phocas">Phocas</a> (610) – Emperor overthrown and beheaded by <a href="/wiki/Heraclius" title="Heraclius">Heraclius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leontios" class="mw-redirect" title="Leontios">Leontios</a> (706)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiberius_III" title="Tiberius III">Tiberius III</a> (706)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justinian_II" title="Justinian II">Justinian II</a> (711)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ottoman_era">Ottoman era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=73" title="Edit section: Ottoman era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bajo_Pivljanin" title="Bajo Pivljanin">Bajo Pivljanin</a> (1685) – Serb hajduk in Venetian service, beheaded and head sent to <a href="/wiki/Mehmed_IV" title="Mehmed IV">Sultan Mehmed IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdullah_bin_Saud" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdullah bin Saud">Abdullah bin Saud</a> (1818) – last ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Diriyah" title="Emirate of Diriyah">First Saudi State</a> and was beheaded by the Ottomans<sup id="cite_ref-ssh_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssh-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Pasha_of_Yanina" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Pasha of Yanina">Ali Pasha of Yanina</a> (1822) – shot and beheaded by order of <a href="/wiki/Mahmud_II" title="Mahmud II">Sultan Mahmud II</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Republic_era">Republic era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=74" title="Edit section: Republic era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Killings_of_Ay%C5%9Fenur_Halil_and_%C4%B0kbal_Uzuner" title="Killings of Ayşenur Halil and İkbal Uzuner">Killings and Decapitations of İkbal Uzuner and Ayşenur Halil</a> (2024)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_States">United States</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=75" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For beheadings before 1776, see <a href="#European_New_World_colonies">§ European New World colonies</a>.</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Laurens" title="Henry Laurens">Henry Laurens</a> (1792) – decapitated posthumously in accordance with his wishes and then burned on a funeral pyre by his son and slaves.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_N._Ebey" title="Isaac N. Ebey">Isaac N. Ebey</a> (1857) – <a href="/wiki/Washington_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington state">Washington state</a> pioneer murdered by <a href="/wiki/Haida_people" title="Haida people">Haida</a> Indians.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Pearl_Bryan" title="Murder of Pearl Bryan">Pearl Bryan</a> (1896) – murdered in <a href="/wiki/Fort_Thomas,_Kentucky" title="Fort Thomas, Kentucky">Fort Thomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>.</li> <li>Captain Harry Miller (1936) – beheaded after murder near <a href="/wiki/New_Trenton,_Indiana" title="New Trenton, Indiana">New Trenton, Indiana</a>, "Head and Hands" murder.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Sixteen victims of <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer" title="Jeffrey Dahmer">Jeffrey Dahmer</a> (1978–1991).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Adam_Walsh" title="Murder of Adam Walsh">Adam Walsh</a> (1981) - abducted from a <a href="/wiki/Sears" title="Sears">Sears</a> department store at the Hollywood Mall in <a href="/wiki/Hollywood,_Florida" title="Hollywood, Florida">Hollywood, Florida</a> and his head was found in a drainage canal two weeks after he was murdered.</li> <li>Christa Hoyt (1990) – decapitated by serial killer <a href="/wiki/Danny_Rolling" title="Danny Rolling">Danny Rolling</a>.</li> <li>Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton (1995) – decapitated and dismembered by Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorbal members of the infamous <a href="/wiki/Sun_Gym_gang" title="Sun Gym gang">Sun Gym gang</a> in Miami.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Yang_Xin" title="Murder of Yang Xin">Yang Xin</a> (2009) – decapitated at <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Tech" title="Virginia Tech">Virginia Tech</a> by Zhu Haiyang.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aasiya_Zubair" title="Aasiya Zubair">Aasiya Zubair</a> (2009) – decapitated in <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> by murderer/husband <a href="/wiki/Muzzammil_Hassan" title="Muzzammil Hassan">Muzzammil Hassan</a>.</li> <li>Hanny Tawadros and Amgad Konds (2013) – decapitated posthumously, allegedly by murderer Yusef Ibrahim.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaughan_Foods_beheading_incident" title="Vaughan Foods beheading incident">Colleen Hufford</a> (2014) – 54-year-old woman was decapitated in <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a> by a 30-year-old pro-Jihad, Islamist, Jah'Keem Yisrael, formerly Alton Alexander Nolen.</li> <li>Lee Manuel Viloria-Paulino (2016) – missing youth who was found to have been decapitated by a classmate.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Luis Romero (2019) – decapitated by his cellmate, Jamie Osuna, at <a href="/wiki/California_State_Prison,_Corcoran" title="California State Prison, Corcoran">Corcoran State Prison</a> in <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Jennifer Schlecht (2019) – decapitated by her husband Yonathan Tedla in their Harlem flat, he then killed their daughter and hanged himself on a fan. Tedla had put Jennifer Schlecht's head in her own lap.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Cecilia Gibson (2020) – 79-year-old Cecilia Gibson, step-grandmother of her killer, Kenny W. McBride, 45, was bludgeoned in head while in house, then McBride decapitated and placed Ms. Gibson's head in their backyard. Kenny W. McBride was arrested at time of reporting after body was dead for two days. McBride's father had married and his new wife's mother, Cecilia Gibson, all lived in the same residence in <a href="/wiki/Bedford,_Michigan" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedford, Michigan">Bedford, Michigan</a> where the crime occurred.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_America_Thayer" title="Killing of America Thayer">America Thayer</a> (2021) – Beheaded with a machete after an argument with her boyfriend.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Shad_Thyrion" title="Murder of Shad Thyrion">Shad Thyrion</a> (2022) – Shad Thyrion's mother found his severed head in a bucket in the basement of their home in <a href="/wiki/Green_Bay,_Wisconsin" title="Green Bay, Wisconsin">Green Bay, Wisconsin</a>. Taylor Schabusiness, who had a sexual relationship with Thyrion, beheaded him after killing him.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Karina Castro (2022) – Rafa Solano decapitated Castro, his ex-girlfriend, on a street with a samurai sword in <a href="/wiki/San_Carlos,_California" title="San Carlos, California">San Carlos, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vietnam">Vietnam</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=76" title="Edit section: Vietnam"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Matyrdom_of_Saint_Pierre_Borie_1838_Vietnam.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Matyrdom_of_Saint_Pierre_Borie_1838_Vietnam.jpg/220px-Matyrdom_of_Saint_Pierre_Borie_1838_Vietnam.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="357" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Matyrdom_of_Saint_Pierre_Borie_1838_Vietnam.jpg/330px-Matyrdom_of_Saint_Pierre_Borie_1838_Vietnam.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Matyrdom_of_Saint_Pierre_Borie_1838_Vietnam.jpg/440px-Matyrdom_of_Saint_Pierre_Borie_1838_Vietnam.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1206" data-file-height="1958" /></a><figcaption>Execution of Pierre Dumoulin-Borie</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vicente_Liem_de_la_Paz" title="Vicente Liem de la Paz">Vicente Liem de la Paz</a> (1773) – beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Tonkin" title="Tonkin">Tonkin</a> as Christian martyr</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Dumoulin-Borie" title="Pierre Dumoulin-Borie">Pierre Dumoulin-Borie</a> (1838) – beheaded in Tonkin as Christian martyr</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_V%C3%B5_V%C4%83n_Du%E1%BB%87" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard Võ Văn Duệ">Bernard Võ Văn Duệ</a> (1838) – beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a> as Christian martyr</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_D%C5%A9ng-L%E1%BA%A1c" title="Andrew Dũng-Lạc">Andrew Dũng-Lạc</a> (1839) – beheaded in Korea as Christian martyr</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustin_Schoeffler" title="Augustin Schoeffler">Augustin Schoeffler</a> (1851) – beheaded in Tonkin as Christian martyr</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Louis_Bonnard" title="Jean-Louis Bonnard">Jean-Louis Bonnard</a> (1852) – beheaded in Korea as Christian martyr</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_H%E1%BB%93_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Hy" title="Michael Hồ Đình Hy">Michael Hồ Đình Hy</a> (1857) – beheaded in Korea as Christian martyr</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophane_V%C3%A9nard" title="Théophane Vénard">Théophane Vénard</a> (1861) – beheaded in Tonkin as Christian martyr</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ba_C%E1%BB%A5t" title="Ba Cụt">Ba Cụt</a> (Lê Quang Vinh) (1956) – guillotined in <a href="/wiki/C%E1%BA%A7n_Th%C6%A1" title="Cần Thơ">Cần Thơ</a> for insurrection and multiple murder</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wales">Wales</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=77" title="Edit section: Wales"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For Welsh beheadings after 1707, see <a href="#Great_Britain">§ Great Britain</a>.</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gwenllian_ferch_Gruffudd" class="mw-redirect" title="Gwenllian ferch Gruffudd">Gwenllian ferch Gruffudd</a> (February 1136) – executed by the Anglo-Norman forces led by <a href="/wiki/Maurice_de_Londres" title="Maurice de Londres">Maurice de Londres</a> at <a href="/wiki/Kidwelly_Castle" title="Kidwelly Castle">Kidwelly Castle, Wales</a>, after a failed uprising</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llewelyn_ap_Gruffydd" class="mw-redirect" title="Llewelyn ap Gruffydd">Llewelyn ap Gruffydd</a> (1282) – beheaded posthumously after his death in battle at <a href="/wiki/Aberedw" title="Aberedw">Aberedw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gruffudd_Vychan" title="Gruffudd Vychan">Sir Gruffudd Vychan</a> (1447) – executed at <a href="/wiki/Powis_Castle" title="Powis Castle">Powis Castle</a> by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Grey,_2nd_Earl_of_Tankerville" title="Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville">Lord Powis</a> for unclear reasons</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Roger_Vaughan" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Roger Vaughan">Sir Roger Vaughan</a> (1471) – beheaded at <a href="/wiki/Chepstow" title="Chepstow">Chepstow</a> by <a href="/wiki/Jasper_Tudor" title="Jasper Tudor">Jasper Tudor</a>, Earl of Bedford for being a <a href="/wiki/House_of_York" title="House of York">Yorkist</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religious_figures">Religious figures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=78" title="Edit section: Religious figures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Bible">The Bible</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=79" title="Edit section: The Bible"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hebrew_Bible/Old_Testament"><span id="Hebrew_Bible.2FOld_Testament"></span>Hebrew Bible/Old Testament</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=80" title="Edit section: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Goliath" title="Goliath">Goliath</a> – after he was killed by <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a>, this example illustrates the aforementioned post-mortem decapitation</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saul" title="Saul">Saul</a> – after he fell on his sword at the Battle of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Gilboa" title="Mount Gilboa">Mount Gilboa</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08a31.htm#3">1 Samuel 31:3–6</a>); the Philistines cut off his head and fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sheba_son_of_Bichri" title="Sheba son of Bichri">Sheba son of Bichri</a> – killed by the people of <a href="/wiki/Abel-beth-maachah" title="Abel-beth-maachah">Abel-beth-maachah</a> to stop the soldiers of <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a> pursuing him from destroying the city</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ish-bosheth" title="Ish-bosheth">Ish-bosheth</a> – killed by Baanah and Rekab in his bed after they entered his house under the pretext of borrowing wheat.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Apocrypha">Apocrypha</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=81" title="Edit section: Apocrypha"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Holofernes" title="Holofernes">Holofernes</a> – in the <a href="/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books" title="Deuterocanonical books">deuterocanonical</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Judith" title="Book of Judith">Book of Judith</a></i></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Judith_Beheading_Holofernes-Caravaggio_(c.1598-9).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Judith_Beheading_Holofernes-Caravaggio_%28c.1598-9%29.jpg/220px-Judith_Beheading_Holofernes-Caravaggio_%28c.1598-9%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Judith_Beheading_Holofernes-Caravaggio_%28c.1598-9%29.jpg/330px-Judith_Beheading_Holofernes-Caravaggio_%28c.1598-9%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Judith_Beheading_Holofernes-Caravaggio_%28c.1598-9%29.jpg/440px-Judith_Beheading_Holofernes-Caravaggio_%28c.1598-9%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="11145" data-file-height="8268" /></a><figcaption>Judith Beheading Holofernes (Caravaggio)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="New_Testament">New Testament</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=82" title="Edit section: New Testament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Dobson_-_The_Executioner_with_the_Head_of_John_the_Baptist_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/William_Dobson_-_The_Executioner_with_the_Head_of_John_the_Baptist_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-William_Dobson_-_The_Executioner_with_the_Head_of_John_the_Baptist_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/William_Dobson_-_The_Executioner_with_the_Head_of_John_the_Baptist_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-William_Dobson_-_The_Executioner_with_the_Head_of_John_the_Baptist_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/William_Dobson_-_The_Executioner_with_the_Head_of_John_the_Baptist_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-William_Dobson_-_The_Executioner_with_the_Head_of_John_the_Baptist_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4247" data-file-height="3629" /></a><figcaption><i>The Executioner with the Head of John the Baptist</i> (William Dobson)</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a> (c. 30 AD) – in the <a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospels</a> by order of <a href="/wiki/Herod_Antipas" title="Herod Antipas">Herod Antipas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theudas" title="Theudas">Theudas</a> (c. 46 AD) - Jewish rebel mentioned in the <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Acts" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Acts">Book of Acts</a></i>; severed head displayed in Jerusalem.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Catholic_saints">Catholic saints</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=83" title="Edit section: Catholic saints"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Das_Martyrium_der_Heiligen_Barbara.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Das_Martyrium_der_Heiligen_Barbara.jpg/220px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Das_Martyrium_der_Heiligen_Barbara.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Das_Martyrium_der_Heiligen_Barbara.jpg/330px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Das_Martyrium_der_Heiligen_Barbara.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Das_Martyrium_der_Heiligen_Barbara.jpg/440px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Das_Martyrium_der_Heiligen_Barbara.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3323" data-file-height="3689" /></a><figcaption>The martyrdom of St Barbara</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CosmasDamianfraangelico.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/CosmasDamianfraangelico.jpg/220px-CosmasDamianfraangelico.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/CosmasDamianfraangelico.jpg/330px-CosmasDamianfraangelico.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/CosmasDamianfraangelico.jpg 2x" data-file-width="420" data-file-height="336" /></a><figcaption>The martyrdom of Saints Cosmas and Damian by Fra Angelico (Musée du Louvre, Paris)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicasius_maryrdom_Louvre_OA6119.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Nicasius_maryrdom_Louvre_OA6119.jpg/220px-Nicasius_maryrdom_Louvre_OA6119.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Nicasius_maryrdom_Louvre_OA6119.jpg/330px-Nicasius_maryrdom_Louvre_OA6119.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Nicasius_maryrdom_Louvre_OA6119.jpg/440px-Nicasius_maryrdom_Louvre_OA6119.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1820" data-file-height="1660" /></a><figcaption>The martyrdom of St Nicasius</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acisclus" title="Acisclus">Saint Acisclus</a> – according to local tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_of_Rome" title="Agnes of Rome">Saint Agnes</a> – according to legend mentioned by the fourth century Saint <a href="/wiki/Ambrose" title="Ambrose">Ambrose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Alban" title="Saint Alban">Saint Alban</a> (around 304) – executed in <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman Britain</a> for converting to Christianity, according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Andrew_Kim" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Andrew Kim">Saint Andrew Kim</a> (1846) – beheaded in <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a> for being Christian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ansanus" title="Ansanus">Saint Ansanus</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthimus_of_Rome" title="Anthimus of Rome">Saint Anthimus of Rome</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Barbara" title="Saint Barbara">Saint Barbara</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Catherine_of_Alexandria" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Catherine of Alexandria">Saint Catherine of Alexandria</a> – according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Christopher" title="Saint Christopher">Saint Christopher</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columba_of_Spain" title="Columba of Spain">Saint Columba</a> of Spain – according to local tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columba_of_Sens" title="Columba of Sens">Saint Columba</a> of France – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columba_the_Virgin" class="mw-redirect" title="Columba the Virgin">Saint Columba (the Virgin)</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a>, England – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saints_Cosmas_and_Damian" title="Saints Cosmas and Damian">Saints Cosmas and Damian</a> (c.287) – executed in purge of Christians in Syria, according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyprian" title="Cyprian">Saint Cyprian</a> (258) – Bishop of Carthage, North Africa – Christian Martyr executed in the persecution ordered by Emperor <a href="/wiki/Valerian_(emperor)" title="Valerian (emperor)">Valerian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Denis_of_Paris" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Denis of Paris">Saint Denis</a> – according to legend, which states that he carried his head to his final resting place, a familiar hagiographical <a href="/wiki/Trope_(literature)" title="Trope (literature)">trope</a> (see <a href="/wiki/Cephalophore" title="Cephalophore">Cephalophore</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Diomedes" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Diomedes">Saint Diomedes</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothea_of_Alexandria" title="Dorothea of Alexandria">Saint Dorothea of Alexandria</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Dymphna" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Dymphna">Saint Dymphna</a> – according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emmeram_of_Regensburg" title="Emmeram of Regensburg">Saint Emmeram</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurosia" title="Eurosia">Saint Eurosia</a> – according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felicitas_of_Rome" title="Felicitas of Rome">Saint Felicitas of Rome</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabor_and_Felix" title="Nabor and Felix">Saints Felix and Nabor</a> – according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Firmus_and_Rusticus" title="Firmus and Rusticus">Saints Firmus and Rusticus</a> – according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_George" title="Saint George">Saint George</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gereon" title="Gereon">Saint Gereon</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Gordianus" title="Saint Gordianus">Saint Gordianus</a> – according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James,_son_of_Zebedee" class="mw-redirect" title="James, son of Zebedee">Saint James</a> – according to the <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles" title="Acts of the Apostles">Acts of the Apostles</a><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcellus_of_Tangier" title="Marcellus of Tangier">Saint Marcellus</a> – according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximilian_of_Tebessa" title="Maximilian of Tebessa">Saint Maximilian of Tebessa</a> (295) – executed by Romans for conscientious objection to military service, according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicasius_of_Rheims" title="Nicasius of Rheims">Saint Nicasius of Rheims</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Reims" title="Reims">Rheims</a> (407) – executed by <a href="/wiki/Vandals" title="Vandals">Vandals</a> during conquest of <a href="/wiki/Reims" title="Reims">Rheims</a>, according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pancras_of_Rome" title="Pancras of Rome">Saint Pancras</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Paul" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Paul">Apostle Paul</a> – traditionally<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_of_Rates" title="Peter of Rates">Saint Peter of Rates</a> – according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyeuctus" title="Polyeuctus">Saint Polyeuctus</a> – according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quiteria" title="Quiteria">Saint Quiteria</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufina_and_Secunda" title="Rufina and Secunda">Saints Rufina and Secunda</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simplicius,_Faustinus_and_Beatrix" title="Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix">Saints Simplicius and Faustinus</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solange_(saint)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solange (saint)">Saint Solange</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Typasius" title="Typasius">Saint Typasius</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urith" title="Urith">Saint Urith</a> of <a href="/wiki/Chittlehampton" title="Chittlehampton">Chittlehampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Devon" title="Devon">Devon</a>, England – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venantius_of_Camerino" title="Venantius of Camerino">Saint Venantius</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Camerino" title="Camerino">Camerino</a> – according to tradition</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winefride" class="mw-redirect" title="Winefride">Saint Winefride</a> of <a href="/wiki/Flintshire" title="Flintshire">Flintshire</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> – according to legend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demiana" title="Demiana">Saint Demiana</a> – according to tradition</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Greek_mythology">Greek mythology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=84" title="Edit section: Greek mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Medusa" title="Medusa">Medusa</a> – a <a href="/wiki/Gorgon" class="mw-redirect" title="Gorgon">Gorgon</a> beheaded by <a href="/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argus_Panoptes" title="Argus Panoptes">Argus Panoptes</a> – beheaded by <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(mythology)" title="Mercury (mythology)">Mercury</a> in order to rescue <a href="/wiki/Io_(mythology)" title="Io (mythology)">Io</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sikh">Sikh</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=85" title="Edit section: Sikh"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guru_Tegh_Bahadur" title="Guru Tegh Bahadur">Guru Tegh Bahadur</a> (1675) – for refusing to convert to Islam</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baba_Deep_Singh" title="Baba Deep Singh">Baba Deep Singh</a> (1757) – in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Amritsar_(1757)" title="Battle of Amritsar (1757)">Battle of Amritsar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikh_holocaust_of_1746_(Chhotaa_Ghallooghaaraa)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sikh holocaust of 1746 (Chhotaa Ghallooghaaraa)">1000 Sikhs (1746)</a> – executed by <a href="/wiki/Zakariya_Khan_Bahadur" title="Zakariya Khan Bahadur">Zakariya Khan Bahadur</a> in Lahore</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Sikh_beheadings_by_the_Taliban" title="2010 Sikh beheadings by the Taliban">2010 Sikh beheadings by the Taliban</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hindu">Hindu</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=86" title="Edit section: Hindu"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karna" title="Karna">Karna</a> – in the epic war of <a href="/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drona" title="Drona">Drona</a> – in the epic war of <a href="/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a></li> <li>Rakthabeeja – by goddess <a href="/wiki/Kali" title="Kali">Kali</a> to eradicate the evil from the earth</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayadratha" title="Jayadratha">Jayadratha</a> – in the epic war of <a href="/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fictional_characters">Fictional characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_were_beheaded&action=edit&section=87" title="Edit section: Fictional characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li>Pang Yu in <i>Justice Bao</i></li> <li>Chen Shimei in <i>Justice Bao: <a href="/wiki/Chen_Shimei_and_Qin_Xianglian" title="Chen Shimei and Qin Xianglian">Chen Shimei and Qin Xianglian</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_The_Office_(American_TV_series)_characters#Ed_Truck" title="List of The Office (American TV series) characters">Ed Truck</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Office_(American_TV_series)" title="The Office (American TV series)">The Office</a></i></li> <li>Black Cat Beastman in <i><a href="/wiki/Kamen_Rider_Amazon" title="Kamen Rider Amazon">Kamen Rider Amazon</a></i></li> <li>Vitruvius in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lego_Movie" title="The Lego Movie">The Lego Movie</a></i></li> <li>Ant Beastman in <i><a href="/wiki/Kamen_Rider_Amazon" title="Kamen Rider Amazon">Kamen Rider Amazon</a></i></li> <li>Ruler/True Emperor Zero in <i><a href="/wiki/Kamen_Rider_Amazon" title="Kamen Rider Amazon">Kamen Rider Amazon</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aida_(Marvel_Cinematic_Universe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aida (Marvel Cinematic Universe)">Aida</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Agents_of_S.H.I.E.L.D." title="Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.">Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.</a></i></li> <li>Ted Bell in <i><a href="/wiki/My_Super_Psycho_Sweet_16:_Part_2" title="My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 2">My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 2</a></i></li> <li>Nora Carpenter in <i><a href="/wiki/Final_Destination_2" title="Final Destination 2">Final Destination 2</a></i></li> <li>Sydney Carton in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities" title="A Tale of Two Cities">A Tale of Two Cities</a></i></li> <li>Conan's mother in <i><a href="/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian_(1982_film)" title="Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)">Conan the Barbarian</a></i> (1982 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Crane" title="Marion Crane">Mary Crane</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Psycho_(novel)" title="Psycho (novel)">Psycho</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sin_(Marvel_Comics)" title="Sin (Marvel Comics)">Valentina de Santis</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Captain_America_(1990_film)" title="Captain America (1990 film)">Captain America</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Count_Dooku" title="Count Dooku">Count Dooku</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_III_%E2%80%93_Revenge_of_the_Sith" title="Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith">Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thulsa_Doom" title="Thulsa Doom">Thulsa Doom</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian_(1982_film)" title="Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)">Conan the Barbarian</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Dravot" class="mw-redirect" title="Daniel Dravot">Daniel Dravot</a> from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King" title="The Man Who Would Be King">The Man Who Would Be King</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jango_Fett" title="Jango Fett">Jango Fett</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_II_%E2%80%93_Attack_of_the_Clones" title="Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones">Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones</a></i></li> <li>Charlie Graham in <i><a href="/wiki/Hereditary_(film)" title="Hereditary (film)">Hereditary</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Knight" title="Green Knight">Green Knight</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight" title="Sir Gawain and the Green Knight">Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</a></i></li> <li>Father Frank in <a href="/wiki/Curse_of_Chucky" title="Curse of Chucky">Curse of Chucky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hershel_Greene" title="Hershel Greene">Hershel Greene</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_(TV_series)" title="The Walking Dead (TV series)">The Walking Dead</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Headless_Horseman" title="Headless Horseman">Headless Horseman</a></li> <li>Carl Hill in <i><a href="/wiki/Re-Animator" title="Re-Animator">Re-Animator</a></i></li> <li>Billy Hitchcock in <i><a href="/wiki/Final_Destination_(film)" title="Final Destination (film)">Final Destination</a></i> (upper-half)</li> <li>Charlene Hughes in <i><a href="/wiki/Charmed" title="Charmed">Charmed</a></i></li> <li>The Jabberwock in "<a href="/wiki/Jabberwocky" title="Jabberwocky">Jabberwocky</a>"</li> <li>Keith Jennings in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Omen" title="The Omen">The Omen</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freddy_Krueger" title="Freddy Krueger">Freddy Krueger</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Freddy_vs._Jason" title="Freddy vs. Jason">Freddy vs. Jason</a></i></li> <li>Transformed Goshima in <i><a href="/wiki/Shin_Kamen_Rider:_Prologue" title="Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue">Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue</a></i></li> <li>John Mayhew in <i><a href="/wiki/Hush,_Hush,_Sweet_Charlotte" class="mw-redirect" title="Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte">Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenny_McCormick" title="Kenny McCormick">Kenny McCormick</a> from <i><a href="/wiki/South_Park" title="South Park">South Park</a></i> (one of his many deaths)</li> <li>Lori Milligan in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Final_Destination" title="The Final Destination">The Final Destination</a></i></li> <li>John Moffet in <i><a href="/wiki/Over_There_(American_TV_series)" title="Over There (American TV series)">Over There</a></i></li> <li>Nadia Monroy in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Final_Destination" title="The Final Destination">The Final Destination</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Myers_(Halloween)" title="Michael Myers (Halloween)">Michael Myers</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Halloween_H20:_20_Years_Later" title="Halloween H20: 20 Years Later">Halloween H20: 20 Years Later</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaworu_Nagisa" title="Kaworu Nagisa">Kaworu Nagisa</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion" title="Neon Genesis Evangelion">Neon Genesis Evangelion</a></i></li> <li>Lola Narcisse in <i><a href="/wiki/Reign_(TV_series)" title="Reign (TV series)">Reign</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Nicholas_de_Mimsy-Porpington" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington">Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington</a> a.k.a. <a href="/wiki/Nearly_Headless_Nick" class="mw-redirect" title="Nearly Headless Nick">Nearly Headless Nick</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hogwarts" title="Hogwarts">Hogwarts</a> <a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">ghost</a> from the <i><a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter" title="Harry Potter">Harry Potter</a></i> books by <a href="/wiki/J.K._Rowling" class="mw-redirect" title="J.K. Rowling">J.K. Rowling</a></li> <li>Finnick Odair in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hunger_Games" title="The Hunger Games">The Hunger Games</a></i></li> <li>Issac Palmer in <i><a href="/wiki/Final_Destination_5" title="Final Destination 5">Final Destination 5</a></i></li> <li>Howard Payne in <i><a href="/wiki/Speed_(1994_film)" title="Speed (1994 film)">Speed</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_King_(Through_the_Looking-Glass)" title="Red King (Through the Looking-Glass)">Red King</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jabberwocky" title="Jabberwocky">Jabberwocky</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tim_Burton" title="Tim Burton">Tim Burton</a>'s film <i><a href="/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(2010_film)" title="Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)">Alice in Wonderland</a></i> (2010)</li> <li>Lewis Romero in <i><a href="/wiki/Final_Destination_3" title="Final Destination 3">Final Destination 3</a></i></li> <li>Seiko Shinohara in <i><a href="/wiki/Corpse_Party" title="Corpse Party">Corpse Party: Book of Shadows</a></i></li> <li>Yui Shishido in <i><a href="/wiki/Corpse_Party:_Tortured_Souls" title="Corpse Party: Tortured Souls">Corpse Party: Tortured Souls</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shredder_(Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles)" title="Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)">Shredder</a> from <i><a href="/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles" title="Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddard_Stark" class="mw-redirect" title="Eddard Stark">Eddard "Ned" Stark</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire" title="A Song of Ice and Fire">A Song of Ice and Fire</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Game_of_Thrones" title="Game of Thrones">Game of Thrones</a></i> (season 1 episode 9)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robb_Stark" title="Robb Stark">Robb Stark</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire" title="A Song of Ice and Fire">A Song of Ice and Fire</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Game_of_Thrones" title="Game of Thrones">Game of Thrones</a></i> (season 3 episode 9)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janos_Slynt" class="mw-redirect" title="Janos Slynt">Janos Slynt</a> in <i> <a href="/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire" title="A Song of Ice and Fire">A Song of Ice and Fire</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Game_of_Thrones" title="Game of Thrones">Game of Thrones</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rickard_Karstark" class="mw-redirect" title="Rickard Karstark">Rickard Karstark</a> in <i> <a href="/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire" title="A Song of Ice and Fire">A Song of Ice and Fire</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Game_of_Thrones" title="Game of Thrones">Game of Thrones</a></i> (season 3 episode 5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missandei" title="Missandei">Missandei</a> of Naath in <a href="/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire" title="A Song of Ice and Fire">A Song of Ice and Fire</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Game_of_Thrones" title="Game of Thrones">Game of Thrones</a></i> (season 8 episode 4)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megatron" title="Megatron">Megatron</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Transformers:_Dark_of_the_Moon" title="Transformers: Dark of the Moon">Transformers: Dark of the Moon</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirk_Strider" class="mw-redirect" title="Dirk Strider">Dirk Strider</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/MS_Paint_Adventures" title="MS Paint Adventures">MS Paint Adventures</a></i></li> <li>Nick Carlyle in <i><a href="/wiki/Lollipop_Chainsaw" title="Lollipop Chainsaw">Lollipop Chainsaw</a></i></li> <li>Boss Tanaka in <i><a href="/wiki/Kill_Bill:_Vol._1" class="mw-redirect" title="Kill Bill: Vol. 1">Kill Bill: Vol. 1</a></i></li> <li>The Seventh Sister Inquisitor in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Rebels" title="Star Wars Rebels">Star Wars Rebels</a></i>.</li> <li>Ashley in <i><a href="/wiki/Saw_V" title="Saw V">Saw V</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomie" title="Tomie">Tomie</a>, the titular horror film character from the series of the same name</li> <li>Mami Tomoe in <i><a href="/wiki/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica" title="Puella Magi Madoka Magica">Puella Magi Madoka Magica</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tortuga_(Breaking_Bad)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tortuga (Breaking Bad)">Tortuga</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Breaking_Bad" title="Breaking Bad">Breaking Bad</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pamela_Voorhees" title="Pamela Voorhees">Pamela Voorhees</a>, the main antagonist in <i><a href="/wiki/Friday_the_13th_(1980_film)" title="Friday the 13th (1980 film)">Friday the 13th</a></i></li> <li>Junior Hubbard in <i><a href="/wiki/Friday_the_13th:_A_New_Beginning" title="Friday the 13th: A New Beginning">Friday the 13th: A New Beginning</a></i></li> <li>Julius Gaw in <i><a href="/wiki/Friday_the_13th_Part_VIII:_Jason_Takes_Manhattan" title="Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan">Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan</a></i></li> <li>Olivia Wade in <i><a href="/wiki/My_Super_Psycho_Sweet_16" title="My Super Psycho Sweet 16">My Super Psycho Sweet 16</a></i></li> <li>Druggie in <i><a href="/wiki/Sausage_Party" title="Sausage Party">Sausage Party</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xena" title="Xena">Xena</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Xena:_Warrior_Princess" title="Xena: Warrior Princess">Xena: Warrior Princess</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quan_Chi" class="mw-redirect" title="Quan Chi">Quan Chi</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_X" title="Mortal Kombat X">Mortal Kombat X</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinnok" class="mw-redirect" title="Shinnok">Shinnok</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_X" title="Mortal Kombat X">Mortal Kombat X</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_11" title="Mortal Kombat 11">Mortal Kombat 11</a></i></li> <li>Kotal in <i><a href="/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_11" title="Mortal Kombat 11">Mortal Kombat 11</a> (Aftermath)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheng_Zhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheng Zhi">Cheng Zhi</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/24:_Live_Another_Day" title="24: Live Another Day">24: Live Another Day</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B.J._Blazkowicz" title="B.J. Blazkowicz">B.J. 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