Executions in History #2

Based on the historical clues, guess these people who were executed.

Some of the charges are real, others are satirical. Please don't be offended

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When	Where	Method	Charges	Who
1989	Raiford, FL	Electric chair	Kidnapping, raping, and murdering >30 victims	Ted Bundy
1963	Dallas, TX	Shot	Assassination US president	Lee Harvey Oswald
1949	East Punjab	Hanged	Assassination civil rights activist	Nathuram Godse
1947	Warsaw	Firing squad	Espionage	Witold Pilecki
1946	Nuremberg	Hanging	War crimes, surrendering Germany to the allies	Wilhelm Keitel
1944	New York City, NY	Electric chair	Mobbing	Louis Buchalter
1944	Berlin	Firing squad	High treason, Operation Valkyrie; trying to kill Hitler	Claus von Stauffenberg
1936	Trenton, NJ	Electric chair	Kidnapping and murdering the Lindbergh baby	Richard Hauptmann
1934	Berlin	Guillotine	Arson of the Reichstag	Van der Lubbe
1931	Punjab	Hanged	Murder and bombing	Bhagat Singh
1918	Moscow	Shot to dead	Being the daughter of the tsar	Anastasia Nikolaevna
1901	Auburn, NY	Electrocution	Assassination US president	Leon Czolgosz
1885	Regina, Canada	Hanged	Treason	Louis Riel
1831	Cuilapan, Mexico	Firing squad	Rebellion	Vicente Guerrero
1685	Rotterdam	Beheading	Tried to overthrow King James II	James Scott
1672	The Hague	Lynched, shot, hanged and partially eaten	High treason	de Witt brothers
1540	London	Beheading	Treason	Thomas Cromwell
1431	Rouen	Burned to death	Heresy, blasphemy	Joan of Arc
182	Capri, Italy	Killed by a centurion	plot to assassinate Commodus	Lucilla
399 B.C.	Athens	Forced to drink Hemlock	Corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens, and Asebeia	Socrates