| When | Where | Method | Charges | Who | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Baghdad | Hanging | Murder and torture | Saddam Hussein | 89%
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| ≈ 33 | Jerusalem | Crucifixion | Claiming to be King of the Jews | Jesus | 87%
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| 1945 | Northern Italy | Informal firing squad | Aggravated fascism | Benito Mussolini | 81%
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| 1793 | Paris | Guillotine | Tyranny; kinging; Causing French blood to flow | Louis XVI | 71%
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| 1967 | Bolivia | Summary shooting | Fomenting revolution; Guerilla warfare | Che Guevara | 68%
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| 1606 | London | Hanging, drawing, quartering | Trying to blow up Parliament | Guy Fawkes | 67%
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| 1793 | Paris | Guillotine | Orgies; incest; sending money to Austria | Marie Antoinette | 67%
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| 1536 | London | Beheading | Adultery against the King; Incest | Anne Boleyn | 56%
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| 1305 | London | Hanging, drawing, quartering | Fighting a war for Scottish independence | William Wallace | 56%
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| 1918 | Yekaterinburg | Informal firing squad | Existing; WWI losses | Nicholas II | 44%
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| 2001 | Indiana | Lethal injection | Oklahoma City bombing | Timothy McVeigh | 40%
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| 1649 | London | Beheading | Treason against Parliament | Charles I | 35%
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| 1994 | Illinois | Lethal injection | Serial killing; Clowning without a license | John Wayne Gacy | 33%
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| 1962 | Israel | Hanging | Holocaust crimes; Banal evil | Adolf Eichmann | 32%
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| 1859 | Virginia | Hanging | Harper's Ferry raid | John Brown | 31%
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| 1953 | New York | Electric chair | Passing nuclear secrets to the USSR | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | 31%
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| 1618 | London | Beheading | Plotting against King James; Introducing smoking | Sir Walter Raleigh | 28%
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| 1880 | Melbourne | Hanging | Bushranging; Killing of police | Ned Kelly | 25%
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| 1535 | London | Beheading | Papism; Burning heretics; Failure to attend a coronation | Thomas More | 21%
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| 1776 | New York | Hanging | Spying; Having but one life to give for his country | Nathan Hale | 18%
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