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List of national legal systems

Classification of national legal systems into civil law, common law, religious law, customary law, and mixed traditions, with country examples such as Saudi Arabia, Israel, Louisiana, Quebec, the Philippines, Andorra, and Guernsey.

List of New York state prisons

The list of New York state prisons covers the correctional facilities operated by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, which housed 31,237 people in 42 facilities in 2025.

List of nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States

List of nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court: all 165 presidential nominations since 1789, with Senate votes, 128 confirmations, rejections such as Rutledge and Bork, and hearing history.

List of parties to the Geneva Conventions

List of parties to the Geneva Conventions: states bound by the four treaties signed at Geneva on 12 August 1949, in force 21 October 1950, depositary Switzerland, with 196 states parties (universal ratification) and 174, 168-169, and 72-79 parties to Additional Protocols I, II, and III.

List of parties to the Paris Agreement

Parties to the Paris Agreement (194 as of January 2026): states and the EU that ratified, accepted, approved, or acceded to the 2015 climate treaty in force 4 November 2016; Iran, Libya, Yemen, and the withdrawn United States stand outside.

List of parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

The 191 parties to the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty), joined by ratification, accession, or succession since 1968; only South Sudan, India, Israel, and Pakistan remain outside, and North Korea's 2003 withdrawal is legally disputed.

List of past Lucchese crime family mobsters

Past members of the Lucchese crime family, one of New York's Five Families: bosses Gaetano Reina, Tommy Gagliano, Tommy Lucchese, Carmine Tramunti, Tony Ducks Corallo, Amuso and Casso, informant Al D'Arco, and later soldiers like Anthony Villani.

List of people convicted of treason

List of people convicted of treason, covering US federal convictions (Whiskey Rebellion, Haupt, Kawakita), acquittals (Burr, Lilburne, 1794 trials), Confederate non-prosecution, and Russian, South African, and Ugandan treason cases.

List of people executed by electrocution

List of people executed by electrocution: United States electric chair executions from William Kemmler's first in 1890 to Nicholas Todd Sutton in 2020; 4,484 recorded historically, 163 since 1977, now authorized in nine states.

List of people executed for witchcraft

People executed for witchcraft, mainly 15th–18th century Europe and colonial America; about 45,000 European executions, regional rates from 16% to 54%, named victims from Agnes Waterhouse to Alse Young and the 20 Salem dead.

List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama

Barack Obama's executive clemency record (2009-2017): 212 pardons and 1,715 commutations, 1,927 total, mostly drug sentences under the 2014 Clemency Initiative, granted at a 5% petition rate.

List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump

The list of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump covers more than 1,500 pardons and commutations across his two presidential terms, including January 6 defendants.

List of people granted executive clemency in the second Trump presidency

Executive clemency granted by Donald Trump in his second US presidency (2025 onward): the January 6 blanket clemency of about 1,500 defendants with 14 named commutations, plus individual pardons such as Ross Ulbricht, Rod Blagojevich, and Juan Orlando Hernández.

List of people indicted in the International Criminal Court

People indicted by the International Criminal Court, formally charged via the 'document containing the charges' rather than an indictment; 65 public warrants as of October 2025, including Putin, Netanyahu, Kony, al-Bashir, Duterte, and four Taliban leaders.

List of people named in the Epstein files

People named in the Epstein files appear in the January 2024 unsealing of Giuffre v. Maxwell court documents and DOJ releases under the 2025 Epstein Files Transparency Act; a name in the records is not an accusation.

List of people of the Salem witch trials

People of the Salem witch trials: the 144 to 185 accused of 1692 to 1693, including Tituba, Bridget Bishop, Giles Corey, and George Burroughs, plus magistrates Hathorne and Corwin, accusers like Ann Putnam Jr., and outcomes: 19 hanged, 1 pressed, 5 died in jail.

List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States

Public DOJ-maintained record of everyone pardoned or granted clemency by U.S. presidents under Article II, Section 2; covers federal offenses only, excludes impeachment, and lists per-administration grant counts and notable recipients.

List of people who died by hanging

List of people who died by hanging: documented judicial executions by hanging, from ~9,320 US cases since 1622 and 10,935 in England and Wales 1735–1964 to Nuremberg 1946 and the last US hangings (1993–1996).

List of people who disappeared mysteriously (1980s)

People who disappeared mysteriously in the 1980s: unsolved cases such as Suzy Lamplugh, Emanuela Orlandi, Johnny Gosch, and Tara Calico, alongside state-enforced disappearances like Iraq's Operation Anfal.

List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present

Notable mysterious disappearances since 1990, including Kristin Smart, Molly Bish, MH370, Suzanne Morphew, and Summer Wells, with NCIC and NamUs statistics on unresolved missing person cases.

List of people who were beheaded

List of people who were beheaded, covering judicial decapitation from Waltheof (1076) and Anne Boleyn to Charles I, Lord Lovat, and guillotine victims like Pelletier, plus modern cases including Saudi executions, Samuel Paty, and ISIS victims.

List of people who were executed

List of people who were executed: notable executed individuals (Kendall, Kemmler, Gee Jon, Joyce, Gilmore, Hasan) plus 2025 global execution statistics: 2,707 executions in 17 countries, highest since 1981.

List of Philippine laws

List of Philippine laws: numbered statutes of the Philippines, from Act No. series (1900) through Commonwealth Acts, Presidential Decrees, Batas Pambansa, and 12,313 Republic Acts to date.

List of positions filled by presidential appointment with Senate confirmation

PAS positions: US offices the president fills only with Senate confirmation under Article II, section 2, covering judges, cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, US attorneys, and agency heads, listed in the Plum Book.

List of presidents of the United States by judicial appointments

The list of presidents of the United States by judicial appointments covers federal judges nominated by each president, led by George Washington's 11 Supreme Court justices.

List of presidents of the United States by previous experience

The list of presidents of the United States by previous experience, also called United States presidents by occupation, records the careers presidents held before taking office.

List of prison escapes

List of prison escapes: notable documented jailbreaks including Andersonville, Stalag Luft III's Great Escape, the 1962 Alcatraz raft escape, the 1983 Maze breakout, Dannemora 2015, and New Orleans 2025, with escape statistics and methods.

List of prisoners of the Tower of London

List of prisoners of the Tower of London: state-prison inmates from Ranulf Flambard (1101) through the Princes in the Tower, Anne Boleyn, Walter Raleigh, and Rudolf Hess to the 1941 execution of Josef Jakobs.

List of prisoners with whole life orders

Whole life orders in England and Wales: life sentences with no Parole Board release, held by named prisoners including Rosemary West, Wayne Couzens, and Lucy Letby; around 70 to 74 prisoners serve them.

List of prisons

List of prisons: inventories of custodial facilities such as the World Prison Brief, BOP facility list, and GOV.UK prison list, covering security levels, populations, and capacity worldwide.