This is an incomplete list of former heads of regimes, like Presidents, Prime Ministers, Monarchs, who were sentenced to death by the succeeding regime following their removal from power.
| Names indexed by surnames | Countries | Dates born | Official positions | Dates died | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonescu, Ion | Romania | 1882-06-15 | Prime Minister (1940-1944) | 1946-06-01 | Executed by firing squad |
| Bagryanov, Ivan Ivanov | Bulgaria | 1891-10-29 | Prime Minister (1944) | 1945-02-01 | Executed |
| Bayar, Celal | Turkey | 1883-05-16 | President (1950-1960), Prime Minister (1937-1939) | 1986-08-22 | Sentence commuted; released in 1964 |
| Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali | Pakistan | 1928-01-05 | President (1971-1973), Prime Minister (1973-1977) | 1979-04-04 | Executed by hanging |
| Bokassa, Jean-Bédel | Central African Republic | 1921-02-22 | Emperor (1976-1979), President (1966-1976) | 1996-11-03 | Sentence commuted; released in 1993 |
| Bozhilov, Dobri | Bulgaria | 1884-06-13 | Prime Minister (1943-1944) | 1945-02-01 | Executed |
| Ceauşescu, Nicolae | Romania | 1918-01-26 | President (1967-1989) | 1989-12-25 | Executed by firing squad |
| Charles I of England | England | 1600-11-19 | King (1625-1649) | 1649-01-30 | Executed by decapitation |
| Chen Gongbo | China (Wang Jingwei Government) | 1892 | President (1944-1945) | 1946 | Executed by firing squad |
| Chun Doo-hwan | Korea, South | 1931-01-18 | President (1980-1988) | Living | Sentence commuted; released in 1997 |
| Filov, Bogdan | Bulgaria | 1883-04-09 | Prime Minister (1940-1943) | 1945-02-02 | Executed |
| Hoveida, Amir-Abbas | Iran | 1919-02-18 | Prime Minister (1965-1977) | 1979-04-07 | Executed by firing squad |
| Liang Hongzhi | China, Reformed Government of the Republic of | 1882 | Chairman (1938-1940) | 1946-11 | Executed by firing squad |
| Louis XVI of France | France | 1754-08-23 | King (1774-1792) | 1793-01-21 | Executed by decapitation (guillotine) |
| Macías Nguema, Francisco | Equatorial Guinea | 1924-01-01 | President (1968-1979) | 1979-09-29 | Executed |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | Scotland | 1542-12-08 | Queen of Scotland (1542-1567) | 1587-02-08 | Beheaded by order of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England, to prevent her inheriting the English throne. |
| Massemba-Débat, Alphonse | Congo, Republic of the | 1921 | President (1963-1968), Prime Minister (1963) | 1977-03-25 | Executed |
| Menderes, Adnan | Turkey | 1899 | Prime Minister (1950-1960) | 1961-09-17 | Executed by hanging |
| Mengistu Haile Mariam | Ethiopia | 1937 or 1941 | Head of State (1977-1987), President (1987-1991) | Living | in absentia |
| Mussolini, Benito | Italy | 1883-07-29 | Prime Minister (1922-1943) | 1945-04-28 | Executed by firing squad |
| Nagy, Imre | Hungary | 1896-06-07 | Prime Minister (1953-1955, 1956) | 1958-06-16 | Executed by hanging |
| Najibullah, Mohammad | Afghanistan | 1947 | President (1987-1992) | 1996-09-27 | Executed by hanging |
| Nicholas II of Russia | Russian Empire | 1868-05-18 | Emperor (1894-1917) | 1918-07-17 | Executed |
| Pétain, Philippe | France, Vichy | 1856-04-24 | Head of State (1940-1944) | 1951-07-23 | Sentence commuted to life imprisonment |
| Quisling, Vidkun | Norway | 1887-07-18 | Minister President (1942-1945) | 1945-10-24 | Executed by firing squad |
| Saddam Hussein | Iraq | 1937-04-28 | President (1979-2003) | 2006-12-30 | Executed by hanging |
| Tojo, Hideki | Japan | 1884-12-30 | Prime Minister (1941-1944) | 1948-12-23 | Executed by hanging |
| Traoré, Moussa | Mali | 1936-09-25 | President (1968-1991) | Living | Sentence commuted; released in 2002 |
| Zinsou, Émile | Dahomey (now Benin) | 1918-03-23 | President (1968-1969) | Living | in absentia |
Famous quotes containing the words sentenced to death, list of, list, heads, sentenced and/or death:
“I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”
—Brendan Behan (1923–1964)
“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a “revolutionary” review, or read a “revolutionary” speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly “revolutionary.” What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!”
—Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)
“We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!”
—Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)
“No one’s death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness.”
—Hermann Broch (1886–1951)