List of People Who Were Beheaded - Scotland

Scotland

For Scottish beheadings after 1707, see the Great Britain section above
  • Donnchadh, Earl of Lennox (1425) – Executed by orders of James I of Scotland
  • Lord Walter Stewart and Lord Alexander Sewart (1425) – Executed by orders of James I of Scotland
  • Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany (1425) – Executed by order of James I of Scotland
  • Walter Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl (1437) – Executed for his part in the murder of James I of Scotland
  • William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas (1440) – Executed on trumped-up charges in front of James II of Scotland
  • Lord David Douglas (1440) – Executed on trumped-up charges in front of James II of Scotland
  • Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde (1455) – Executed on the orders of James III of Scotland
  • John Douglas, Lord of Balvenie (1463) – Executed on the orders of James III of Scotland
  • Sir James Hamilton of Finnart – Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland (1540) – Executed by order of James V of Scotland
  • James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (1581) – Executed on the Scottish maiden for complicity in murder of Lord Darnley
  • William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (1584) – Executed by order of James VI of Scotland
  • John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell (1613) – Beheaded in Edinburgh for carrying out a revenge killing
  • Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney (1615) – Executed by order of James VI of Scotland
  • Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo (1644) – Executed on the Scottish maiden by the Covenanters for treason as a Royalist
  • Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll (1661) – Executed by order of Charles II of Scotland on the Scottish maiden for treason
  • Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll (1685) – son of above. Executed by order of James VII of Scotland on the Scottish maiden for treason
  • Godfrey McCulloch (1697) – Executed on the Scottish maiden for murder. Last man to be executed by the maiden

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