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This is an incomplete list of former heads of regimes, like presidents, prime ministers and monarchs, who were sentenced to death by the succeeding regime.
| Leader | Country | Title | Date | Charges | Sentencing
Body |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ion Antonescu |  Romania |
Prime minister (1940–1944) | June 1, 1946 | War crimes, crimes against the peace, treason | Romanian People's Tribunals | Executed by firing squad |
| Ivan Bagryanov |  Bulgaria |
Prime minister (1944) | February 1, 1945 | Executed | ||
| Celâl Bayar |  Turkey |
President (1950-1960) Prime minister (1937–1939) |
Sentence commuted; released in 1964 | |||
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |  Pakistan |
President (1971–1973) Prime minister (1973–1977) |
April 4, 1979 | Executed by hanging | ||
| Jean-Bédel Bokassa |  Central African Empire |
Emperor (1976–1979) President (1966–1976) |
Sentence commuted; released in 1993 | |||
| Dobri Bozhilov |  Bulgaria |
Prime minister (1943–1944) | February 1, 1945 | Executed | ||
| Nicolae Ceaușescu |  Romania |
President (1967–1989) | December 25, 1989 | Executed by firing squad | ||
| Charles I of England |  England Scotland Ireland |
King (1625–1649) | January 30, 1649 | Executed by decapitation | ||
| Chen Gongbo |  Collaborationist China |
President (1944–1945) | June 3, 1946 | Executed by firing squad | ||
| Chun Doo-hwan |  South Korea |
President (1980–1988) | Sentence commuted; released in 1997 | |||
| Bogdan Filov | Bulgaria |
Prime minister (1940–1943) | February 2, 1945 | Executed | ||
| Amir-Abbas Hoveyda |  Iran |
Prime minister (1965–1977) | April 7, 1979 | Executed by firing squad | ||
| Lady Jane Grey | England |
Queen (1553) | July 19, 1553 | Executed | ||
| Li Si | China (Qin dynasty) | Chancellor (? to 208 BCE) | 208 BC | Executed by waist chop | ||
| Liang Hongzhi |  Collaborationist China |
Chairman (1938–1940) | 1946-11 | Executed by firing squad | ||
| Louis XVI of France |  France |
King (1774–1792) | January 21, 1793 | Executed by decapitation (guillotine) | ||
| Patrice Lumumba |  Congo |
Prime Minister (1960) | January 17, 1961 | Executed by firing squad | ||
| Francisco Macías Nguema |  Equatorial Guinea |
President (1968–1979) | September 29, 1979 | Executed | ||
| Ferdinand Marcos |  Philippines |
President (1965–1986) | Sentence commuted; released in 22 October 1940 | |||
| Mary, Queen of Scots | Scotland |
Queen of Scotland (1542–1567) | February 8, 1587 | Beheaded by order of Queen Elizabeth I of England to prevent her inheriting the English throne. | ||
| Alphonse Massamba-Débat |  Congo-Brazzaville |
President (1963–1968) Prime minister (1963) |
March 25, 1977 | Executed | ||
| Adnan Menderes | Turkey |
Prime minister (1950–1960) | September 17, 1961 | Executed by hanging | ||
| Mengistu Haile Mariam |  Ethiopia |
Head of state (1977-1987) President (1987-1991) |
Convicted in absentia | |||
| Benito Mussolini |  Italy |
Prime minister (1922–1943) | April 28, 1945 | Executed by firing squad | ||
| Imre Nagy |  Hungary |
Prime minister (1953–1955, 1956) | June 16, 1958 | Executed by hanging | ||
| Mohammad Najibullah |  Afghanistan |
President (1987–1992) | September 27, 1996 | Executed by hanging | ||
| Nicholas II of Russia |  Russia |
Emperor (1894–1917) | July 17, 1918[1] | Executed | ||
| Philippe Pétain |  Vichy France |
Head of state (1940–1944) | Sentence commuted to life imprisonment | |||
| Vidkun Quisling |  Norway |
Minister president (1942–1945) | October 24, 1945 | Executed by firing squad | ||
| Edward James Roye |  Liberia |
President (1870–1871) | Sentenced to death, died in uncertain circumstances before sentence was carried out | |||
| Saddam Hussein |  Iraq |
President (1979–2003) | December 30, 2006 | Executed by hanging | ||
| Sima Chi | China (Western Jin) | Emperor (307 to 311) | March 14, 313 | Executed prisoner of war | ||
| Sima Ye | China (Western Jin) | Emperor (313 to 316) | February 7, 318 | Executed prisoner of war | ||
| Ferenc Szálasi |  Hungary |
Nationleader (1944–1945) | March 12, 1946 | Executed | ||
| Jozef Tiso |  Slovakia |
President (1939–1945) | April 18, 1947 | Executed by hanging | ||
| Hideki Tojo |  Japan |
Prime minister (1941–1944) | December 23, 1948 | Executed by hanging | ||
| Moussa Traoré |  Mali |
President (1968–1991) | Sentence commuted; released in 2002 | |||
| Wen Tianxiang | China (Song dynasty) | Chancellor (1275–78) | January 9, 1283 | Executed prisoner of war | ||
| Ying Ziying | China (Qin dynasty) | Emperor (207 BC) | January 206 BC | Executed prisoner of war | ||
| Zhao Gao | China (Qin dynasty) | Chancellor (208 BC–207 BC) | 207 BC | Executed | ||
| Zhao Xian | China (Song dynasty) | Emperor (1274–76) | May 1323 | Executed | ||
| Émile Derlin Zinsou |  Dahomey |
President (1968-–) | Convicted in absentia | |||
| Georgios Papadopoulos |  Greece |
Prime Minister (1967–1973) Regent (1972-1973) President (June 1 to November 25, 1973) |
Sentence commuted to life imprisonment |
See also
Footnotes
- ^ 4 July 1918, in the Julian calendar
External links
[[Category:Lists of heads of state|Former heads of regimes who were sentenced to death]] [[Category:Lists of people by legal status|Former heads of regimes who were sentenced to death]] [[Category:Lists of people by cause of death]] [[Category:People sentenced to death|*]]