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

Firearm offences

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

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=Pre-Modern Era (500-1500)=

=Early Modern Era (1500–1800)=

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=1940s=

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=1960s=

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=1980s=

=Since 1990=

Murder

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=Serial killers=

Piracy

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Political opponents

Political purges

=Executed during the [[Night of the Long Knives]] (all in 1934)=

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=Executed members of the [[20 July plot]]=

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)

=Sexual assault=

==Rape==

==Paedophiles==

==Other sex offences==

Smuggling

Treason

Witchcraft

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

Other

=Executed by Tudors=

{{main|List of people executed by the Tudors}}

=Beheaded=

{{main|List of people who were beheaded}}

See also

References

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