Top Ten Politicians Who Have Been Executed
The Top Ten
1 Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region—which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to power in Iraq. ...read more.
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region—which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to power in Iraq. ...read more.
2 Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until he was ousted in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. ...read more.
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until he was ousted in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. ...read more.
3 Nicholas II
4 King Louis XVI
He wasn't really a politician. Just a king.
5 Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. ...read more.
Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. ...read more.
6 King Charles I
Our history teacher calls him Ching Charles.
7 Mary, Queen of Scots
8 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
9 William Wallace
William Wallace was a freedom fighter and a Scottish Commander during the first Scottish wars of Independence. He defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in September 1297, and was was appointed Guardian of Scotland. He served until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk in July 1298. ...read more.
William Wallace was a freedom fighter and a Scottish Commander during the first Scottish wars of Independence. He defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in September 1297, and was was appointed Guardian of Scotland. He served until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk in July 1298. ...read more.
10 Vidkun Quisling
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11 Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 27th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from October 17, 1941, to July 22, 1944. As Prime Minister, he was responsible for ordering the attack on Pearl Harbor, which initiated war between Japan and the United States, although planning for it had begun in April 1941 before he entered office. ...read more.
Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 27th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from October 17, 1941, to July 22, 1944. As Prime Minister, he was responsible for ordering the attack on Pearl Harbor, which initiated war between Japan and the United States, although planning for it had begun in April 1941 before he entered office. ...read more.
12 Adolf Eichmann
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, and was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. For this, he was abducted by the Allies in 1945, but escaped to Argentina. In May 1960, he was abducted yet again, but this time, he didn't escape. He was taken by Mossad, the national intelligence agency of Israel. ...read more.
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, and was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. For this, he was abducted by the Allies in 1945, but escaped to Argentina. In May 1960, he was abducted yet again, but this time, he didn't escape. He was taken by Mossad, the national intelligence agency of Israel. ...read more.
13 Genrikh Yagoda
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda was a Soviet-Russian secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised the arrest, show trial, and execution of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, events that initiated the Great Purge.
He was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov in 1936 and arrested in 1937. On March of 1938, he confessed to crimes of treason and conspiracy. Shortly after the trial, he was found guilty and shot.
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda was a Soviet-Russian secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised the arrest, show trial, and execution of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, events that initiated the Great Purge.
He was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov in 1936 and arrested in 1937. On March of 1938, he confessed to crimes of treason and conspiracy. Shortly after the trial, he was found guilty and shot.
14 Nikolai Yezhov
15 Lavrenti Beria
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin from 1941. He later officially joined the Politburo in 1946. Beria, along with 6 others, Dekanozov, Merkulov, Vlodzimirsky, Meshik, Goglidze and Kobulov, were all arrested on June 26, 1953. He went on trial at the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on 23 December 1953. ...read more.
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin from 1941. He later officially joined the Politburo in 1946. Beria, along with 6 others, Dekanozov, Merkulov, Vlodzimirsky, Meshik, Goglidze and Kobulov, were all arrested on June 26, 1953. He went on trial at the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on 23 December 1953. ...read more.
16 Joachim von Ribbentrop
17 Francisco Nguema
18 Jozef Tiso
19 Ion Antonescu
20 Béla Kun
21 Patrice Lumumba
22 Imre Nagy
23 Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician, as well as one of the best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. ...read more.
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician, as well as one of the best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. ...read more.
24 Alfred Rosenberg
25 Hans Frank
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