Executed murderers

Ahmad Suradji was a serial killer in Indonesia. Suradji, a cattle-breeder born in 1949, was also known as Nasib Kelewang, or by his alias Datuk. He admitted to killing 42 girls and women over a period of 11 years. His victims ranged in age from 11 to 30, and were strangled with a cable after being buried up to their waists in the ground as part of a ritual. Suradji was arrested on May 2, 1997, after bodies were discovered near his home on the outskirts of Medan, the capital of North Sumatra. He buried his victims in a sugarcane plantation near his home, with heads of the victims facing his house, which he believed would give him extra power. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ahmad Suradji"

Aileen Carol Wuornos ( February 29 1956 – October 9 2002) was an American serial killer who was sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1992. Wuornos admitted to killing seven men, in separate incidents, all of whom she claimed had raped her while she was working as a prostitute. She was executed in 2002.

Alan Lehman Matheney ( 6 November 1950 - 28 September 2005) was a convicted murderer executed in the U.S. state of Indiana. He was convicted of beating to death his ex-wife, Lisa Bianco, with a .410 bore shotgun, while on an eight-hour release from prison on 4 March 1989. At the time he was serving a sentence at Pendleton Correctional Facility for battery and confinement of Bianco. He was executed by lethal injection on 28 September 2005 at Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. Time of death was announced as 12:27 AM. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Matheney"

Albert H. Fish ( May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer and cannibal. He was also known as the Moon Maniac, the Gray Man, and the Brooklyn Vampire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Fish"

Alexander Pearce (?? – 1824) was a convict and bushranger who escaped from the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station and is best known for cannabalising his fellow escapees while travelling through the Tasmanian Wilderness. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Pearce"

Gary Arthur Bishop ( 1951- 1988) was an excommunicated former Mormon from Hinckley, Utah who was executed by lethal injection on June 10, 1988 at the Utah state prison at Point of the Mountain, for five counts of capital murder, five counts of aggravated kidnapping, and one count of sexually abusing a minor. He had confessed to the murders of five young boys for sexual motives in 1983, as a result of a routine police investigation, and led the police to three skeletons near Cedar Fort and two more recent corpses near Big Cottonwood Creek. Bishop was an Eagle Scout. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Gary Bishop"

On December 18, 1914 Arthur Hodges became the first person in Clark County, Arkansas to be executed by use of the electric chair. Prior to that all executions were carried out by way of hanging or firing squad. He was the 4th person so executed in Arkansas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Hodges"

Betty Lou Beets ( March 12, 1937 – February 26, 2000) was a murderer executed in the U.S. state of Texas. She had been convicted of shooting her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets on August 6, 1983. ...more on Wikipedia about "Betty Lou Beets"

Billy Bailey ( 1947 - January 25, 1996) was a convicted murderer hanged in 1996. ...more on Wikipedia about "Billy Bailey"

Brian D. Steckel ( December 14, 1968 – November 4, 2005) was a convicted murderer executed the U.S. state of Delaware. He was convicted of the rape and murder on September 2, 1994 of 29-year-old Sandra Lee Long near Prices Corner, Delaware, near Wilmington. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brian Steckel"

Bruno Richard Hauptmann ( November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German carpenter and former criminal, sentenced to death and executed for the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the 20-month old son of famous pilot Charles Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping gained international infamy, and has become known as "The Crime of the Century." ...more on Wikipedia about "Bruno Hauptmann"

Bruno Ludke ( 1909- 1944) was a German serial killer. He killed at least 80 people, mainly women, in his 15-year killing spree which began in 1928. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bruno Ludke"

Carl Panzram ( 1891– 1930) was an American serial killer from the era of the 1920s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Panzram"

Carroll Edward Cole ( May 9, 1938 - December 6, 1985), was a US serial killer who was executed in 1985. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carroll Cole"

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Champ Ferguson ( November 29, 1821 - October 20, 1865) was a Kentucky and Tennessee Confederate guerilla in the American Civil War who is claimed to have killed dozens of soldiers and civilians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Champ Ferguson"

Charles Brooks Jr. ( April 1, 1942 – December 7, 1982) was a convicted murderer who was the first person executed by lethal injection in the United States. It was the first execution in Texas since 1964. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Brooks, Jr."

Charles Rodman Campbell was a convicted murderer who was executed in 1994. His case highlights some of the legal controversy surrounding capital punishment in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Campbell"

Charles Starkweather ( November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was a spree killer who murdered 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming, USA and became a national fascination, eventually inspiring the film Badlands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Starkweather"

Charles Daniel Thacker ( September 18, 1968 – November 9, 2005) was a murderer and serial rapist executed in in the U.S. state of Texas. He was convicted of the April 7, 1993 attempted rape and murder of 26-year-old Karen Crawford in Houston, Texas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Thacker"

Charlotte Corday ( July 27, 1768– July 17, 1793), more fully Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont, killed Jean-Paul Marat in 1793. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charlotte Corday"

Christian Ranucci ( April 6, 1954 - July 28, 1976) was one of the last people executed in France, having been convicted of the abduction, sexual assault, and murder of a young girl, Marie-Dolorès Rambla. He was executed by guillotine at Baumettes prison in Marseilles. In his last words he said to his lawyers, who were present, "Rehabilitate me." ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian Ranucci"

Clarence Ray Allen ( January 16, 1930 – January 17, 2006) was an American prison inmate who was executed by lethal injection on January 17, 2006 at San Quentin State Prison in California for the murders of three people. He became the second oldest inmate to be executed in the United States since 1976 ( John B. Nixon of Mississippi was executed in 2005 at age 77). While in prison, Allen claimed Choctaw heritage. He was born in Blair, Oklahoma. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clarence Ray Allen"

David Rocheville was executed in 1999 by lethal injection, having been convicted of two counts of murder, one count of kidnapping, and one count of armed robbery. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Rocheville"

Desmond Keith Carter ( October 15, 1967 – December 10, 2002) was convicted of the 1992 murder of Helen Purdy and was executed in 2002 by the State of North Carolina at the Central Prison in Raleigh. ...more on Wikipedia about "Desmond Keith Carter"

Dhananjoy Chatterjee ( August 14, 1965 in Kuludihi, West Bengal, India - August 14, 2004 at Alipore Central Jail in Calcutta, India) was executed by hanging for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Hetal Parekh on March 5, 1990 at her apartment residence in Bhowanipur. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dhananjoy Chatterjee"

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