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Execution of Banda Singh Bahadur

The execution of Banda Singh Bahadur was the public killing of the Sikh leader in Delhi on 9 June 1716, after his capture at Gurdas Nangal.

Execution of Bhagat Singh

The execution of Bhagat Singh (भगत सिंह की फांसी) was the 1931 hanging of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev in Lahore Central Jail under British rule.

Execution of Chao Cuo

The Execution of Chao Cuo (晁錯之死) was the 154 BC waist-cutting of the Han chancellor who had cut the princedoms, which failed to end the Seven Kingdoms' revolt.

Execution of Charles I (regicide), 30 January 1649: the reigning English king beheaded by order of the High Court of Justice on a scaffold outside the Banqueting House, Whitehall, after trial for treason; preceded by Pride's Purge and followed by the Commonwealth and the 1660 prosecution of the regicides.

Execution of Clayton Lockett

The April 29, 2014 botched Oklahoma lethal injection of Clayton Lockett, convicted of the 1999 murder of Stephanie Neiman: failed IV placement, midazolam protocol, 43-minute death, state investigation, and Glossip v. Gross aftermath.

Oct 22, 2026

Execution of Diego de Almagro

The execution of Diego de Almagro was the garroting and beheading in Cuzco in 1538 of the Spanish adelantado and discoverer of Chile, after his defeat at Las Salinas.

Execution of Gomburza

The Execution of Gomburza was the garrote execution of three Filipino priests, Gomes, Burgos, and Zamora, at Bagumbayan, Manila, in 1872 after the Cavite Mutiny.

Execution of Guru Arjan

The execution of Guru Arjan (गुरु अर्जन की शहादत) was the death in Mughal custody of the fifth Sikh Guru at Lahore in 1606, on Emperor Jahangir's orders.

Execution of Guru Tegh Bahadur

The execution of Guru Tegh Bahadur was the beheading of the ninth Sikh Guru at Chandni Chowk in Delhi in 1675, on Aurangzeb's orders, after he refused to embrace Islam.

Execution of Hemu

The execution of Hemu (हेमू का वध) was the beheading of Hemu, wounded and captured at the Second Battle of Panipat on 5 November 1556, before the young Akbar.

Execution of Hidalgo, Allende, and insurgent leaders

The execution of Hidalgo, Allende, and insurgent leaders (Ejecución de Hidalgo y Allende) was the 1811 firing-squad execution at Chihuahua of the captured chiefs of the Mexican War of Independence.

Execution of Ibrahim Pasha

The execution of Ibrahim Pasha (Ibrahim Pasha'nin Infazi) was the strangling of Grand Vizier Pargali Ibrahim Pasha on Sultan Suleyman I's order at Topkapi Palace in March 1536.

Execution of Jeong Do-jeon

The execution of Jeong Do-jeon (정도전의 죽음) took place in 1398, when Yi Bang-won killed Jeong Do-jeon, Joseon's chief architect, and two princes in the First Princes' Strife.

Execution of Ji Kang

The execution of Ji Kang (嵇康之死) took place in 262 or 263, when Sima Zhao had the Wei philosopher and musician killed at the capital's eastern market.

Execution of Kara Mustafa Pasha

The execution of Kara Mustafa Pasha was the 1683 strangulation of the Ottoman grand vizier at Belgrade, ordered by Sultan Mehmed IV after the failed siege of Vienna.

Execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith

Kenneth Eugene Smith, Alabama death-row prisoner convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire killing of Elizabeth Sennett, was executed January 25, 2024, by nitrogen hypoxia at Holman Correctional Facility, the first U.S. nitrogen gas execution, after a failed 2022 lethal injection attempt.

Execution of Liu Jin

The Execution of Liu Jin (刘瑾伏诛) was the death of Liu Jin, the powerful eunuch who dominated the Zhengde emperor's government, in the eighth month of Zhengde 5.

Execution of Louis XVI

Execution of Louis XVI, also called the regicide of Louis Capet: the former French king was guillotined on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution after the National Convention convicted him on 33 charges, by narrow death-penalty votes.

Execution of Mahmud Gawan

The execution of Mahmud Gawan (محمود گاواں) was the 1481 beheading of the Bahmani Sultanate's vizier, ordered by Sultan Muhammad Shah III after Deccani nobles framed him with a forged letter.

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots: beheading of Mary Stuart on 8 February 1587 at Fotheringhay Castle after conviction for complicity in the Babington Plot against Elizabeth I; warrant controversy, botched beheading, and martyr imagery.

Oct 22, 2026

Execution of Maximilian I

The execution of Maximilian I was the firing-squad death of Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg at Querétaro, Mexico, on 19 June 1867, ordered by President Benito Juárez's republican government.

Execution of Mikhail of Tver in the Horde

The execution of Mikhail of Tver in the Horde (Казнь Михаила Тверского в Орде) was the 1318 killing of Prince Mikhail Yaroslavich on Khan Uzbek's order.

Execution of Nehanda and Kaguvi

The execution of Nehanda and Kaguvi (Kuponda kwaNehanda naKaguvi) was the hanging of two Shona spirit mediums by the British South Africa Company in Salisbury, now Harare, on 27 April 1898.

Execution of Nu'man III

The execution of Nu'man III (قتل النعمان بن المنذر) was the killing of the last Lakhmid king of al-Hira by the Sasanian king Khusrau II around 602.

Execution of Peng Yue

The Execution of Peng Yue (彭越之死) was the judicial destruction of Peng Yue, King of Liang, on a rebellion charge in the eleventh year of Emperor Gaozu of Han.

Execution of Saddam Hussein

Execution of Saddam Hussein: former Iraqi president hanged in Baghdad on December 30, 2006 after the Iraqi High Tribunal convicted him of crimes against humanity for the 1982 Dujail killings; widely criticized as a flawed trial with a sectarian taunting video.