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List of people who were executed#Homosexuality

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This list is categorised by the reason for execution and the year of the execution is included. When a person was sentenced to death for two or more different capital crimes they are listed multiple times.

Arson and sabotage

Assassination

Espionage

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Firearm offences

Military and civil conflicts, insurrections, and coups d'état

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Murder

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Piracy

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Political opponents

Political purges

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Prisoners of war

Religious figures

{{See also|Christian martyrs|List of people burned as heretics}}

Robbery and theft

Sexual offences

=Homosexuality=

{{main|List of people executed for homosexuality}}

  • Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477), German cross dressing lesbian executed for heresy against nature after having used a dildo on two female partners.
  • John Atherton (1640), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore{{cite web|url=http://www.senatordavidnorris.ie/ChangingAttitudesArticle.htm |title=Changing Attitudes |accessdate=2009-11-29 |last=Norris |first=David |date=2009-05-17 |work=Public Address at the service to mark international day against homophobia in Christ Church Cathedral |publisher=David Norris |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090606062927/http://www.senatordavidnorris.ie/ChangingAttitudesArticle.htm |archivedate=2009-06-06 }}
  • Jacopo Bonfadio (1550), Italian humanist and historian[http://www.jacopobonfadio.it/jacopo_bonfadio.html Official website commemorating 500 years since Bonfadio's birth] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722040238/http://www.jacopobonfadio.it/jacopo_bonfadio.html |date=2011-07-22 }}
  • Francesco Calcagno (1550), Venician Franciscan friar.Tucker, Scott (1997). The Queer Question: Essays on Desire and Democracy. Boston: South End Press. {{ISBN|978-0-89608-577-0}}. p. 46.
  • Giovanni di Giovanni (1365), 15-year-old Italian boy charged with being "a public and notorious passive sodomite"{{cite book|title=Forbidden Friendships, Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence|year=1996|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/forbiddenfriends00rock/page/24 24, 227, 356, 360]|last=Rocke|first=Michael|isbn=0-19-512292-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/forbiddenfriends00rock/page/24}}{{Cite book |title=Literature and Homosexuality |first=Michael J |last=Meyer |year=2000 |publisher=Rodopi |pages=206|isbn=90-420-0519-X |postscript=}}
  • Lisbetha Olsdotter (1679), Swedish cross-dresser and early female soldier (disguised as a man).
  • Dominique Phinot ({{circa}}1556), French composer of the RenaissanceJacob, Roger "Dominique Phinot", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed January 1, 2006), [http://www.grovemusic.com (subscription access)]
  • James Pratt and John Smith (1835), last two executions for sodomy in the UK
  • Tibira do Maranhão (1614), Brazilian Tupinambá executed for sodomy by French colonizers
  • Mervyn Tuchet (1631)

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==Rape==

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Smuggling

Treason

Witchcraft

{{main|List of people executed for witchcraft}}

Other

=Executed by Tudors=

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=Beheaded=

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See also

References

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External links

  • [http://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/victims.html USA Executions and Victims since 1977]

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