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Capital punishment
Capital punishment or the death penalty, is the execution of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head" ...
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Adolf Eichmann
Otto Adolf Eichmann (March 19, 1906 – May 31, 1962), sometimes referred to as "the architect of the Holocaust", was a Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel). Because of his organizational talents and ideological...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1906
Date of death:
- May 31, 1962 (age 56 years)
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (pronounced /ˈsɪsɨroʊ/; Classical Latin: [ˈkikeroː]; January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He was member of a wealthy family of the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 106 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- Dec 7, 43 B.C.E. (age 62 years)
William Kidd
William "Captain" Kidd (c. 1645 – May 23, 1701) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Some modern historians deem his piratical reputation unjust, as there is...
Date of birth:
- 1645
Date of death:
- May 23, 1701 (age 56 years)
Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649), the second son of James VI of Scotland and I of England, was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution. Charles famously engaged in a struggle for power with the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1600
Date of death:
- Jan 30, 1649 (age 48 years)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 – 16 October 1946) was a senior Austrian official during World War II, holding the offices of Chief of the RSHA, and (from 1943 to 1945) President of Interpol. He was the highest-ranking SS leader to face trial,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 4, 1903
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1946 (age 43 years)
Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tōjō (Kyūjitai: 東條 英機; Shinjitai: 東条 英機; Tōjō Hideki (help·info)) (30 December 1884 – 23 December 1948) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, member and succeeding leader of the Taisei Yokusankai and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan...
Date of birth:
- 1884
Date of death:
- 1948 (age 64 years)
Jan Hus
Jan Hus aka Jan Huss, John Hus, John Huss (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦus] ( listen); ca. 1372 Husinec, Bohemia – 6 July 1415 Konstanz, Germany), often referred to in English as John Huss or variations thereof, was a Czech Catholic priest,...
Date of birth:
- 1372
Date of death:
- Jul 6, 1415 (age 43 years)
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg Trials.
Ribbentrop was born in Wesel, Rhenish Prussia, the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 30, 1893
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1946 (age 53 years)
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrītī; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 28, 1937
Date of death:
- Dec 30, 2006 (age 69 years)
Johann Friedrich Struensee
Count Johann Friedrich von Struensee (Halle an der Saale, 5 August 1737 - Copenhagen, 28 April 1772) was a German doctor. He became royal physician to the schizophrenic King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in the Danish government. He rose...
Date of birth:
- Aug 5, 1737
Date of death:
- Apr 28, 1772 (age 34 years)
Alfred Rosenberg
Dr. Alfred Rosenberg Ph.D (help·info) (12 January 1893 – 16 October 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart; he later held several important posts...
Date of birth:
- Jan 12, 1893
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1946 (age 53 years)
Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452 – May 23, 1498) was an Italian Dominican priest and leader of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498. He was known for his book burning, destruction of what he considered immoral art, and hostility to...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1452
Date of death:
- May 23, 1498 (age 45 years)
Alfred Jodl
Alfred Jodl (10 May 1890 – 16 October 1946) was a German military commander, attaining the position of Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) during World War II, acting as deputy to...
Date of birth:
- May 10, 1890
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1946 (age 56 years)
Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882–16 October 1946) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). As head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces) and de facto war minister, he was one of Germany's most...
Date of birth:
- Sep 22, 1882
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1946 (age 64 years)
Messalina
Valeria Messalina, sometimes spelled Messallina, (c. 17/20 – 48) was the third wife of Roman Emperor Claudius. She was also a paternal cousin of the Emperor Nero. A powerful and influential woman with a reputation for promiscuity, she conspired...
Date of death:
- 48 C.E.
John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer.
Between 1972 and 1978, the year he was arrested, Gacy raped and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Although some of his victims' bodies were found in the Des...
Date of birth:
- Mar 17, 1942
Date of death:
- May 10, 1994 (age 52 years)
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and Catholic aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler...
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1907
Date of death:
- Jul 20, 1944 (age 36 years)
Nathuram Godse
Nathuram Vinayak Godse (Marathi: नथूराम विनायक गोडसे) (May 19, 1910 – November 15, 1949) is best known for being the man who assassinated Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi.
Nathuram Godse was born in Baramati, Pune District. His father, Vinayak Vamanrao...
Date of birth:
- May 19, 1910
Date of death:
- Nov 15, 1949 (age 39 years)
Ptolemy of Mauretania
Ptolemy of Mauretania, sometimes known as Ptolemy of Morocco (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος, Latin: Ptolemaeus, 1 BC-40) was a prince and the last Roman Client King of Mauretania.
Ptolemy was the son of King Juba II and Queen Cleopatra Selene II of Mauretania....
Date of birth:
- 1 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 40 C.E. (age 40 years)
Caesarion
Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, nicknamed Caesarion (little Caesar) Greek: Πτολεμαῖος ΙΕʹ Φιλοπάτωρ Φιλομήτωρ Καῖσαρ, Καισαρίων, Ptolemaĩos Philopátōr Philomḗtōr Kaĩsar, Kaisaríōn (June 23, 47 BC – August, 30 BC) was the last king of the...
Date of death:
- 31 B.C.E.
Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher (12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent Nazi prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. His publishing firm also...
Date of birth:
- Feb 12, 1885
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1946 (age 61 years)
Herostratus
Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος) was a young man who set fire to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (in what is now western Turkey) in his quest for fame on about July 20, 356 BC. The temple was constructed of marble and considered the most...
Hans Frank
Hans Michael Frank (May 23, 1900 – October 16, 1946) was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s and later became a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany. He was prosecuted during the Nuremberg trials for his role in...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1900
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1946 (age 46 years)
John Allen Muhammad
John Allen Muhammad (December 31, 1960 – November 10, 2009) was a spree killer from the United States. With his younger partner, Lee Boyd Malvo, he carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing at least 10 people. Muhammad and Malvo were...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1960
Date of death:
- Nov 10, 2009 (age 48 years)
Ted Bundy
Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy, born Theodore Robert Cowell (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989), was an American serial killer active between 1973 and 1978. He twice escaped from county jails before his final apprehension in February 1978. After...
Date of birth:
- Nov 24, 1946
Date of death:
- Jan 24, 1989 (age 42 years)
Conradin
Conrad (25 March 1252 – 29 October 1268), called the Younger or the Boy, but usually known by the diminutive Conradin (German: Konradin, Italian: Corradino), was the Duke of Swabia (1254–1268, as Conrad IV), King of Jerusalem (1254–1268, as Conrad...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1252
Date of death:
- Oct 29, 1268 (age 16 years)
Albert Fish
"Albert" Hamilton Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, and The Boogeyman. A child molester and cannibal, he boasted that he had "had...
Date of birth:
- May 19, 1870
Date of death:
- Jan 16, 1936 (age 65 years)
Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux
Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (6 March 1767 – 25 June 1794) was a French politician of the Revolutionary period.
Born in Marseille, Barbaroux was educated at first by the local Oratorians, then studied law, and became a successful lawyer. He was...
Date of birth:
- Mar 6, 1767
Date of death:
- Jun 25, 1794 (age 27 years)
Sejanus
Lucius Aelius Seianus (20 BC – October 18, 31 AD), commonly known as Sejanus, was an ambitious soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. An equestrian by birth, Sejanus rose to power as prefect of the Roman imperial bodyguard,...
Date of birth:
- 20 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- Oct 18, 31 C.E. (age 50 years)
Ned Kelly
Edward "Ned" Kelly (June 1854/June 1855 – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, and, to some, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed...
Date of birth:
- 1854
Date of death:
- Nov 11, 1880 (age 26 years)
Andres Bonifacio
Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro (November 30, 1863 – May 10, 1897) was a Filipino nationalist and revolutionary. He was a founder and leader of the Katipunan movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1863
Date of death:
- May 10, 1897 (age 33 years)
Fritz Haarmann
Friedrich "Fritz" Haarmann (October 25, 1879 – April 15, 1925) was a German serial killer who is believed to be responsible for the murder of 27 boys and young men.
Fritz Haarmann was born on October 25, 1879, the sixth child of poor parents. Fritz...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1879
Date of death:
- Apr 15, 1925 (age 45 years)
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg (Rosalia Luxemburg, Polish: Róża Luksemburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish-Jewish-German theorist, philosopher, and activist. She was successively a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania...
Date of birth:
- 1870
Date of death:
- Jan 15, 1919 (age 49 years)
Leon Czolgosz
Leon Frank Czolgosz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtʂɔlɡaʂ]) (May 1873 – October 29, 1901; also used his mother's maiden name "Nieman" and variations thereof) was the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley. In the last few years of his life, he...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1873
Date of death:
- Oct 29, 1901 (age 28 years)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges related to passing information...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1918
Date of death:
- Jun 19, 1953 (age 35 years)
Georges Cadoudal
Georges Cadoudal (1 January 1771 – 25 June 1804), sometimes called simply Georges, was a French politician, and leader of the Chouannerie during the French Revolution.
Born near Auray, in Brittany, after completing his education, he remained true to...
Date of birth:
- Jan 1, 1771
Date of death:
- Jun 25, 1804 (age 33 years)
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, commonly called Boethius (ca. 480–524 or 525) was a Christian philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and important family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and...
Date of birth:
- 480 C.E.
Date of death:
- 524 C.E. (age 44 years)
Camille Desmoulins
Lucie Simplice Camille Benoist Desmoulins (March 2, 1760 – April 5, 1794) was a French journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution. He was closely associated with Georges Danton.
Desmoulins was born at Guise,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1760
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 1794 (age 34 years)
Giuseppe Zangara
Giuseppe Zangara (September 7, 1900 – March 20, 1933) was the assassin of Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, though United States President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt is generally believed to have been his intended target. Roosevelt escaped injury,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1900
Date of death:
- Mar 20, 1933 (age 32 years)
Frank Abbandando
Frank Abbandando (July 11, 1910 – February 19, 1942), nicknamed "The Dasher", was a New York contract killer who committed many murders as part of the infamous Murder, Inc. gang.
Abbandando was one of twelve children of Lorenzo Abbondondola and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1910
Date of death:
- Feb 19, 1942 (age 31 years)
Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Carol Wuornos (February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, later claiming they raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute. She was...
Date of birth:
- Feb 29, 1956
Date of death:
- Oct 9, 2002 (age 46 years)
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
Barzan Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti (February 17, 1951 – January 15, 2007) (also known as Barazan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Barasan Ibrahem Alhassen) (Arabic: برزان إبراهيم الحسن التكريتي; Barzān Ibrāhīm al-Ḥasan at-Tikrītī) was one of three uterine...
Date of birth:
- Feb 17, 1951
Date of death:
- Jan 15, 2007 (age 55 years)
Eugen Weidmann
Eugen Weidmann (February 5, 1908 – June 17, 1939) was the last person to be publicly executed in France. Executions by guillotine in France continued in private until September 10, 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi was the last person to be executed....
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1908
Date of death:
- Jun 17, 1939 (age 31 years)
Harry Strauss
Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss (July 28, 1909 – June 12, 1941) was a prolific contract killer for Murder, Inc. in the 1930s. He killed over 30 men using a variety of methods; shooting, stabbing with ice picks, drowning, live burial and strangling...
Date of birth:
- Jul 28, 1909
Date of death:
- Jun 12, 1941 (age 31 years)
Charlotte Corday
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known to history as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed under the guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul...
Date of birth:
- Jul 27, 1768
Date of death:
- Jul 17, 1793 (age 24 years)
Saint Dismas
DISMAS is one of the two thieves that were crucified at the same time than Jesus. The name of DISMAS for this person, unnamed in the canonical Gospel itself, appears first in the12th century in the Gospel of Nicodemus. The name of the other thief is...
Date of birth:
- 18 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 33 C.E. (age 50 years)
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (10 March 1536 — 2 June 1572) was an English nobleman.
Norfolk was the son of the poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. He was taught as a child by John Foxe, the Protestant martyrologist, who remained a lifelong...
Date of birth:
- Mar 10, 1536
Date of death:
- Jun 2, 1572 (age 36 years)
Jack Gilbert Graham
John "Jack" Gilbert Graham (January 23, 1932 – January 11, 1957) was a mass murderer who killed 44 people by planting a dynamite bomb in his mother's suitcase that was subsequently loaded aboard United Airlines Flight 629.
Flight 629 was utilizing a...
Date of birth:
- Jan 23, 1932
Date of death:
- Jan 11, 1957 (age 24 years)
Sophie Scholl
Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of...
Date of birth:
- May 9, 1921
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 1943 (age 21 years)
Peter Anthony Allen
Peter Anthony Allen (4 April 1943 – 13 August 1964) was one of the two last people in the United Kingdom to be executed. He was hanged for the murder the previous 7 April of John Alan West.
When Allen and his accomplice, Gwynne Owen Evans, were...
Date of death:
- 1964
Marcel Petiot
Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot (17 January 1897 – 25 May 1946) was a French doctor and serial killer convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of 26 people in his home in Paris after World War II. He is suspected of killing...
Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1897
Date of death:
- May 25, 1946 (age 49 years)
Derek Bentley
Derek William Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953) was a British teenager hanged for the murder of a police officer, committed in the course of a burglary attempt. The murder of the police officer was committed by a friend and accomplice of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 30, 1933
Date of death:
- Jan 28, 1953 (age 19 years)
An Jung-geun
Ahn Jung-geun or An Jung-geun (September 2, 1879 - March 26, 1910) (Baptismal name: Thomas) was a Korean independence activist, nationalist, and pan-Asianist.
He assassinated the first Prime Minister of Japan, Itō Hirobumi, following the signing of...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1879
Date of death:
- Mar 26, 1910 (age 30 years)
Sacco and Vanzetti
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888) were two Italian-born laborers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed via electrocution on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1891
Date of death:
- Aug 23, 1927 (age 36 years)
Gary Gilmore
Gary Mark Gilmore (December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal and spree killer who gained international notoriety for demanding that his death sentence be fulfilled following two murders he committed in Utah. He became the first...
Date of birth:
- Dec 4, 1940
Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1977 (age 36 years)
Jacob Johan Anckarström
Jacob Johan Anckarström (May 11, 1762 – April 27, 1792) was a Swedish military officer who was convicted and executed for regicide. He served as a captain in King Gustav III's regiment between 1778 and 1783. During travels to Gotland, he was accused...
Date of birth:
- May 11, 1762
Date of death:
- Apr 27, 1792 (age 29 years)
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans) (Château de Saint-Cloud, France, 13 April 1747, – Paris, 6 November 1793), was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, the ruling dynasty...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1747
Date of death:
- Nov 6, 1793 (age 46 years)
Bruno Hauptmann
Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German carpenter sentenced to death and executed for the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of famous pilots Charles Lindbergh and Anne...
Date of birth:
- Nov 26, 1899
Date of death:
- Apr 3, 1936 (age 36 years)
Hamida Djandoubi
Hamida Djandoubi (Arabic: حميدة جندوبي) (c. 1949–10 September 1977) was the last person to be guillotined in France, at Baumettes Prison in Marseille. He was a Tunisian immigrant who had been convicted of the torture and murder of 21-year-old...
Date of birth:
- 1949
Date of death:
- Sep 10, 1977 (age 28 years)
Stanley Williams
Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005), born in New Orleans, Louisiana was an early leader of the Crips, a notorious American street gang which had its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1971. In 1979 he was convicted...
Date of birth:
- Dec 29, 1953
Date of death:
- Dec 13, 2005 (age 51 years)
