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Serbs being executed in Austria-Hungary in World War I

This is a list of people who died as a result of hanging, including suicides and judicial, extrajudicial, or summary executions. These deaths are notable due to history or due to media exposure.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Suicide by hanging

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See also: Suicide by hanging and Category:Suicides by hanging
Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher; while on vacation with family in Duino
Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator; in his hotel room
Robert Ley, German Nazi Reichsorganisationsleiter; in prison cell
Gustav Simon, German Nazi NSKK-Obergruppenführer; in prison cell
Ilse Koch, German Nazi overseer at Buchenwald concentration camp and Majdanek concentration camp; in prison cell
Rudolf Hess, German Nazi Deputy Führer to Hitler; in prison
Robin Williams, American actor and comedian; in his home
Daryl Easton, American magician; in his dressing room at Hollywood's Magic Castle
Anthony Bourdain, American chef; in his hotel room
Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender; in prison cell
Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor; in his home
John McAfee, American businessman; in prison cell

Capital punishment by hanging

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Execution of Lincoln assassination conspirators Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt
Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq and war criminal
Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal
Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister and war criminal
Alfred Jodl, German Nazi Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal
Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard and war criminal
Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan and war criminal
  • Ahmed Salim, a Bangladeshi painter who was found guilty of murdering his ex-fiancée in Singapore and sentenced to hang (28 February 2024)
  • Mohamed Shalleh Abdul Latiff, Singaporean drug trafficker hanged for diamorphine trafficking (3 August 2023)
  • Saridewi Djamani, Singaporean drug trafficker hanged for diamorphine trafficking (28 July 2023)
  • Tangaraju Suppiah, Singaporean drug trafficker hanged for marijuana trafficking (26 April 2023)
  • Abdul Rahim Shapiee and Ong Seow Ping, two Singaporean drug traffickers hanged for heroin trafficking (5 August 2022)
  • Tomohiro Katō, a Japanese mass killer who received the death penalty for committing the 2008 Akihabara massacre (26 July 2022)
  • Nazeri Lajim, Singaporean drug trafficker and former drug addict hanged for heroin trafficking (22 July 2022)
  • Norasharee Gous (a Singaporean) and Kalwant Singh Jogindar Singh (a Malaysian), two drug traffickers hanged in Singapore for heroin trafficking. (7 July 2022)
  • Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, a Malaysian drug trafficker who was executed in Singapore despite his alleged intellectual disability and the resulting international outcry (27 April 2022)
  • Abdul Kahar Othman, a 68-year-old Singaporean drug trafficker who is the first to be executed during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore (30 March 2022)
  • Pawan Gupta, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur, the four adult rapists and murderers of the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder (20 March 2020)
  • Wei Wei, a Japan-based Chinese student and one of the three perpetrators of the 2003 Fukuoka family murder case. One of his two accomplices was sentenced to life imprisonment in China while another was executed by the Chinese courts (26 December 2019)
  • Micheal Anak Garing, Malaysian who robbed and murdered 41-year-old Shanmuganathan Dillidurai during the last of his group's serial armed robbery spree in Kallang, Singapore. (22 March 2019)
  • Chia Kee Chen, a Singaporean businessman who murdered his wife's lover Dexmon Chua Yizhi. He was originally sentenced to life imprisonment before the sentence was commuted to the death penalty by the Court of Appeal. (after 27 July 2018)
  • Kazuaki Okazaki, a Japanese killer who committed the Sakamoto family murder in 1989, as well as several more murders (26 July 2018)
  • Satoro Hashimoto, a Japanese killer and accomplice of Kazuaki Okazaki who committed the Sakamoto family murder in 1989 (26 July 2018)
  • Shoko Asahara, founder of Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo and mastermind behind the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995. (6 July 2018)
  • Rasheed Muhammad and Ramzan Rizwan, the two Pakistani tissue paper sellers who killed and dismembered their Pakistani roommate (c. 2018)
  • Masakatsu Nishikawa, a Japanese serial killer responsible for five murders of bar hostesses (13 July 2017)
  • Ahmad Najib bin Aris, Malaysian who was sentenced to death in 2005 for abducting, murdering and raping 32-year-old Canny Ong in 2003, for which the case made shocking headlines in Malaysia (23 September 2016)
  • Kho Jabing, Malaysian who was responsible for the robbery and murder of Chinese national and construction worker Cao Ruyin in Singapore in 2008. (20 May 2016)
  • Yakub Memon, Indian citizen convicted of involvement in the 1993 Bombay bombings. (30 July 2015)
  • Tsukasa Kanda, a Japanese criminal and one of the three culprits of the murder of Rie Isogai. One of his accomplices was sentenced to life imprisonment while another was sentenced to death for an unrelated murder case (25 June 2015)
  • Muhammad Kadar, Singaporean odd-job labourer who killed an elderly housewife by inflicting 110 knife wounds on the victim during a robbery in 2005 (17 April 2015)
  • Wang Zhijian, Chinese convicted murderer who killed three women in a rental HDB flat in Yishun, Singapore. (after 28 November 2014)
  • Abdul Quader Molla, Bangladeshi Islamist leader and politician of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, charged with rape and mass murder (12 December 2013)
  • Afzal Guru, Indian convicted for the 2001 Indian Parliament attack (9 February 2013)
  • Ajmal Kasab, Pakistani militant and a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist group, convicted for the 2008 Mumbai attacks (21 November 2012)
  • Tharema Vejayan Govindasamy, a Singaporean odd-job worker who murdered his ex-wife in 2007 (c. 2011)
  • Nakamuthu Balakrishnan, a Singaporean sentenced to death for murdering a lorry driver during a S$1.3 million mobile phone heist (8 July 2011)
  • Zahra Bahrami, Dutch-Iranian dual citizen, for narcotics trafficking (29 January 2011)
  • Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, military commander, cousin of Saddam Hussein, and war criminal (25 January 2010)
  • Tan Chor Jin, a former fugitive and gangster who was responsible for the fatal shooting of nightclub owner Lim Hock Soon (9 January 2009)
  • Abdul Malik bin Usman, Kamal bin Kupli and Hamir Hasim, the three Malaysians found guilty of murdering a Myanmar worker during a robbery and sentenced to hang (c. 2008)
  • Mohammed Ali bin Johari, Singaporean Malay and notorious convicted murderer who raped and killed his stepdaughter Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi, who was nicknamed "Nonoi", for which the crime made headlines in Singapore (19 December 2008)
  • Hanafi Mat Hassan, a bus driver convicted of the 2000 rape and murder of Noor Suzaily Mukhtar in Malaysia, and sentenced to hang (19 December 2008)
  • Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer who killed four young girls between August 1988 and June 1989 before his arrest in July 1989. He was later convicted of murder and sentenced to death in April 1997, and he subsequently spent the final 11 years and 2 months of his life on death row before his execution (17 June 2008)
  • Leong Siew Chor, a Singaporean who murdered his lover and dismembered her body into seven pieces (30 November 2007)
  • Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, half brother of Saddam Hussein, leader of the Mukhabarat, decapitated due to the wrong measurements of the rope (15 January 2007)
  • Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq and war criminal (30 December 2006)
  • Took Leng How, Malaysian who murdered Huang Na, an 8-year-old Chinese citizen in Pasir Panjang, Singapore. (3 November 2006)
  • Mohamed Amin Mohamed Razali, the principal member of the Al-Ma'unah who was convicted and sentenced to death for waging war against the King during the Sauk Siege (4 August 2006)
  • Zahit Muslim, Jamaluddin Darus and Jemari Jusoh, the three members of the Al-Ma'unah who were convicted and sentenced to death for waging war against the King during the Sauk Siege (c. July 2006)
  • Tony Koh Zhan Quan and Lim Poh Lye, who were both found guilty of murdering a scrap car dealer Bock Tuan Thong and sentenced to be executed (28 April 2006)
  • Khor Kok Soon, one of Singapore's top ten fugitives who was caught in 2003 for the 1984 Shenton Way shooting and murder of a lorry driver (c. 2006)
  • Lim Thian Lai, a Singaporean gunman who shot and murdered a businessman in 1997, and sentenced to death in 2005 (c. 2006)
  • Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug trafficker (2 December 2005)
  • Yang Ning, a Japan-based Chinese student and one of the three perpetrators of the 2003 Fukuoka family murder case. One of his two accomplices was sentenced to life imprisonment in China while another was executed by the Japanese courts (12 July 2005)
  • Harith Gary Lee, a Singaporean put to death by hanging for killing his girlfriend (22 April 2005)
  • Zailani Ahmad, a technician found guilty of killing a caretaker and sentenced to death by hanging (c. 2005)
  • Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer (14 September 2004)
  • Dhananjoy Chatterjee, Indian convicted of rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl (14 August 2004)
  • Tan Chee Wee, a Malaysian hanged for the rape-murder of a Thai housewife in Singapore (11 June 2004)
  • Soosainathan Dass Saminathan, a Singaporean hanged for the rape and murder of a six-month-old baby girl (21 May 2004)
  • Jin Yugang, a Chinese cleaner found guilty of murdering a compatriot in Singapore (19 March 2004)
  • Yen May Woen, Singaporean hairdresser who was convicted of trafficking 30.16g of diamorphine (19 March 2004)
  • Arun Prakash Vaithilingam, an Indian ship electrician who was found guilty of murdering his colleague inside their rented flat in Marsiling, Singapore, and sentenced to death (3 October 2003)
  • Vignes Mourthi and Moorthy Angappan, the two Malaysian drug traffickers charged with importing 27.65 grams of diamorphine (26 September 2003)
  • Seethong Phichet, Thongthot Yordsa-Art and Dornchinnamat Yingyos, the three Thai workers sentenced to death for killing another Thai worker and drug lord (21 February 2003)
  • Kanesan Ratnam, a Singaporean who was found guilty of murdering a fellow prisoner at Queenstown Remand Prison and sentenced to death (10 January 2003)
  • Ariffin Agas, a Malaysian security guard who was convicted of murdering two Indian-American brothers and their Filipino maid in 1992, and sentenced to hang (27 December 2002)
  • Anthony Ler, full name Anthony Ler Wee Teang, Singaporean graphic designer who hired and manipulated a 15-year-old male minor to murder his 30-year-old wife Annie Leong Wai Mun (or Annie Leong), who was in the midst of divorcing him. Ler was sentenced to death while his 15-year-old accomplice was spared the death sentence and instead sentenced to indefinite detention at the President's Pleasure (13 December 2002)
  • Rosli Ahmat, Wan Kamil Mohamed Shafian and Ibrahim Mohamed, the three Singaporean robbers executed for robbing and killing taxi driver Koh Ngiap Yong and moneychanger Jahabar Sathick. (25 October 2002)
  • Khwan-On Natthaphon, a Thai carpenter found guilty of murdering a taxi driver and sentenced to death by hanging (27 September 2002)
  • Mona Fandey, Malaysian pop singer and convicted killer who was sentenced to death for murdering Malaysian politician Mazlan bin Idris. Her husband Mohamad Nor Affandi bin Abdul Rahman and her assistant Juraimi bin Hassan were also sentenced to death and executed on the same day as her (2 November 2001)
  • Tay Chin Wah, Singaporean gunman and taxi driver who was found guilty of shooting at a moneylender (26 October 2001)
  • Zainuzzaman Mohamad Jasadi, a Malaysian who was sentenced to hang for murdering a famous child television host Intan Yusniza Mohamad Yunos and her foster mother Haniza Ismail at Kuala Lumpur in 1991 (5 October 2001)
  • Julaiha Begum, a Singaporean Indian executed for soliciting the murder of her husband T. Maniam, a retired policeman. Her accomplices Loganatha Venkatesan and Chandran Rajagopal were similarly executed. (16 February 2001)
  • Kiyotaka Katsuta, Japanese serial killer (30 November 2000)
  • Chan Chim Yee, a Singaporean cleaner and ex-seaman who murdered his girlfriend and sentenced to hang (15 September 2000)
  • Lau Lee Peng, a Singaporean fishmonger who committed the brutal robbery and murder of his long-time friend and fruit stall helper Lily Tan Eng Yan at her Tampines flat (1 September 2000)
  • S. Nagarajan Kuppusamy, a Singaporean lorry driver found guilty of murdering a prison warden (23 July 1999)
  • Norishyam Mohamed Ali and Shaiful Edham Adam, two Singaporeans who were convicted of killing a Bulgarian student. (2 July 1999)
  • Too Yin Sheong, a Malaysian who was one of the three robbers committing the murder of Lee Kok Cheong (30 April 1999)
  • Jonaris Badlishah, a Malaysian and distant nephew of the then Sultan of Kedah who murdered a beautician after he robbed her of her Rolex watch (February 1999)
  • Gerardine Andrew, Nazar Mohamed Kassim, and Mansoor Abdullah, who were responsible for the murder of Sivapackiam Veerappan Rengasamy (26 February 1999)
  • Lim Chin Chong, a Malaysian male prostitute who, at age 18, murdered his male homosexual employer Philip Low Cheng Quee, who operated a male brothel (23 October 1998)
  • Asogan Ramesh Ramachandren and Selvar Kumar Silvaras, two Singaporean murderers who killed a gangster. A third accomplice Mathavakannan Kalimuthu was granted clemency and re-sentenced to life imprisonment. (29 May 1998)
  • Jimmy Chua Hwa Soon, a former army sergeant of the Singapore Armed Forces who murdered his sister-in-law Neo Lam Lye and also heavily slashed his four-year-old nephew (February 1998)
  • Norio Nagayama, Japanese serial killer (1 August 1997)
  • Lim Chwee Soon, a Singaporean gunman and armed robber executed for discharging a firearm seven times during a goldsmith robbery (25 July 1997)
  • Khampun Sriyotha and Samlee Prathumtree, the two Thai workers sentenced to hang for murdering their fellow countryman Somwang Yapapha during a sledgehammer attack (4 July 1997)
  • Pracha Thanomnin, an illegal Thai worker found guilty for murdering a taxi driver during a robbery bid (10 January 1997)
  • Jang Hye-gyung, mother of North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk who was executed by hanging for attempting to escape Camp 14, a high-security North Korean concentration camp (29 November 1996)
  • Zainal Abidin Abdul Malik, Singaporean hotel worker who used an axe to brutally hacked a police officer to death (30 August 1996)
  • Teo Kim Hong, Singaporean prostitute who murdered her Malaysian friend and colleague Ching Bee Ing (30 August 1996)
  • Thongbai Naklangdon, a Thai welder found guilty of murdering his friend and co-worker Suk Malasri, and sentenced to hang (30 August 1996)
  • John Martin Scripps, a British spree killer executed in Singapore for killing a South African tourist (19 April 1996)
  • Rozman Jusoh and Razali Mat Zin, Malaysian odd-job labourers hanged in Singapore for marijuana trafficking (12 April 1996)
  • Panya Marmontree, Prawit Yaowabutr, Manit Wangjaisuk, Panya Amphawa, and Prasong Bunsom, the five gang robbers convicted and hanged for killing three foreign construction workers in Singapore (15 March 1996)
  • Indra Wijaya Ibrahim, a Singaporean drug addict who robbed and murdered an 80-year-old woman inside a lift at Bedok North (29 September 1995)
  • S. S. Asokan and Maniam Rathinswamy, two Singaporean security guards found guilty for murdering loan shark Tan Heng Hong and sentenced to death (8 September 1995)
  • Jamaludin Ibrahim, a Singaporean repairman convicted of killing his two neighbours during a robbery (28 July 1995)
  • Ng Theng Shuang, Malaysian armed robber who shot a Cisco officer and two other bystanders during a failed robbery attempt (14 July 1995)
  • Sagar Suppiah Retnam, a Singaporean labourer and former gang leader of Ang Soon Tong who murdered a bystander during a gang clash at Marsiling, and sentenced to hang. (7 July 1995)
  • Anbuarsu Joseph, a Singaporean scaffolder and gang leader of Gi Leng Kiat who was found guilty of murdering a patron of a coffee shop at Chander Road, and sentenced to death. (7 July 1995)
  • Mohamad Ashiek Salleh and Junalis Lumat, two unemployed Singaporeans found guilty for robbing and killing two taxi drivers and sentenced to death (16 June 1995)
  • Phua Soy Boon, an unemployed Singaporean found guilty for killing a moneylender and sentenced to death (16 June 1995)
  • Jahabar Bagurudeen, an Indian businessman convicted of murdering a moneychanger (2 June 1995)
  • Oh Laye Koh, a Singaporean school bus driver who was found guilty of murdering a 17-year-old Malaysian schoolgirl named Liang Shan Shan in 1989. Oh was also alleged to have killed a 18-year-old lounge waitress Norhayah Mohamed Ali in 1982. (19 May 1995)
  • Kumar Nadison, Jabar Kadermastan and Chandran Gangatharan, the three Malaysians found guilty of murdering an ice factory worker Samynathan Pawathai in 1985, and therefore executed by hanging (28 April 1995)
  • Auto Shankar, Indian serial killer (27 April 1995)
  • Poon Yuen Chung, a Hong Kong tourist executed in Singapore for trafficking 9.5 kg of heroin (21 April 1995)
  • Tong Ching Man and her boyfriend Lam Cheuk Wang, two Hong Kong citizens executed in Singapore for trafficking a total of 3 kg of heroin (21 April 1995)
  • Chin Seow Noi, Chin Yaw Kim and Ng Kim Heng, the three Malaysians who murdered Lim Lee Tin, the girlfriend of Chin Seow Noi (31 March 1995)
  • Flor Contemplacion, Filipino domestic worker convicted of murder in Singapore (17 March 1995)
  • Daniel Chan Chi-pun, a Hongkonger charged with heroin trafficking (10 March 1995)
  • Lim Lye Hock, convicted murderer who killed his childhood friend after raping her (c. 1995)
  • Elke Tsang Kai-mong, Hong Kong national who was charged with trafficking more than 4 kg of diamorphine (16 December 1994)
  • Ong Yeow Tian, convicted cop-killer who killed a policeman and shot two other officers with a revolver (25 November 1994)
  • Murgan Ramasamy, who was convicted of killing a taxi driver back in 1988 and executed (16 September 1994)
  • Mohamed Jaafar Abidin and Yacob Rusmatullah, who were both found guilty and hanged for murdering a 78-year-old housewife (26 August 1994)
  • Ibrahim Masod, convicted murderer who kidnapped a goldsmith for ransom before killing him (29 July 1994)
  • Goh Hong Choon, convicted murderer who killed a young girl during a robbery (29 July 1994)
  • Lee Teck Sang, a Singaporean army deserter who killed a lecturer during a robbery bid at Singapore Polytechnic (29 July 1994)
  • Charles Rodman Campbell, convicted murderer (27 May 1994)
  • Krishnan Varadan, a Malaysian who robbed and killed an elderly man in 1984, and also the longest-serving death row prisoner in Singapore at the time he was executed (15 April 1994)
  • Yeo Watt Song, a Singaporean illegal hawker sentenced to death for killing his childhood friend in 1989 (March 1994)
  • Cheuk Mei Mei and Tse Po Chung, both Hong Kong citizens executed in Singapore for drug trafficking (5 March 1994)
  • Mazlan Maidun, a Singaporean sentenced to death for killing a lorry driver in 1988 (21 January 1994)
  • Ng Soo Hin, a Singaporean carpenter sentenced to death for killing his girlfriend Foo Chin Chin and another female friend Ng Lee Kheng (after 4 December 1993)
  • Maksa Tohaiee, a Singaporean cleaner who was merely 18 years old when he murdered an Italian housewife Clementina Curci during a burglary attempt. He was sentenced to death for murder (26 November 1993)
  • Raymond Ko Mun Cheung and An Man Keny Chiu Sum Hing, two labourers from Hong Kong who were executed for drug trafficking in Singapore (30 July 1993)
  • Mohamed Mahmuduzzaman Khan and Mohamed Bachu Miah, two Bangladeshi immigrants found guilty of murdering a fellow immigrant from Bangladesh, and sentenced to death by hanging (23 July 1993)
  • Westley Allan Dodd, American serial killer and child molester (5 January 1993)
  • Ithinin Kamari, a Singaporean who was the perpetrator of the 1989 Tanglin Halt double murders. Ithinin was sentenced to hang for the double murder three years later (c. 1993)
  • Chia Chee Yeen, a National Serviceman charged with the murder of his army superior and sentenced to death (c. 1993)
  • Tan Bee Hock, a Singaporean charged with murdering a games stall owner and sentenced to death in 1993 (c. 1993)
  • Loh Yoon Seong, a Malaysian who murdered an Indonesian fish trader by stabbing and sentenced to death in 1990 (c. 1993)
  • Vasavan Sathiadew, who, together with three hired Thai killers, strangled his adoptive brother Frankie Tan to death. He and two of the Thais was sentenced to death for murder. (23 October 1992)
  • Phan Khenapim, one of the three Thai killers who helped Vasavan Sathiadew to kill Frankie Tan. (23 October 1992)
  • Wan Pathong, one of the three Thai killers who helped Vasavan Sathiadew to kill Frankie Tan. (23 October 1992)
  • Hensley Anthony Neville, a Eurasian Singaporean who raped and killed a 19-year-old interior designer named Lim Hwee Huang (28 August 1992)
  • Lim Joo Yin, a Singaporean contractor who was caught importing 1.37 kg of heroin (3 April 1992)
  • Ronald Tan Chong Ngee, an unemployed Singaporean who was caught importing 1.37 kg of heroin (3 April 1992)
  • Tan Joo Cheng, an unemployed Singaporean and drug addict found guilty of the murder of Lee Juay Heng and sentenced to death by hanging (c. 1992)
  • Lim Beng Hai, a Singaprorean drug addict convicted of killing three people during a robbery (5 October 1990)
  • Teo Boon Ann, a Singaporean temple medium convicted of killing an elderly woman (20 April 1990)
  • Lau Chi Sing, the first Hong Kong national to be given the death penalty in Singapore for drug trafficking (17 November 1989)
  • Sek Kim Wah, former recruit of the Singapore Armed Forces and convicted armed robber and killer who robbed and murdered five people in two separate cases and was thus sentenced to death (9 December 1988)
  • Adrian Lim, Tan Mui Choo and Hoe Kah Hong, convicted child killers and perpetrators of the 1981 Toa Payoh ritual murders case. (25 November 1988)
  • Lau Ah Kiang, a jobless Singaporean who used a chopper to kill his adoptive niece Ong Ai Siok (after 18 January 1988)
  • Ramu Annadavascan, who killed a man by hitting him with a rake and burning him alive (19 September 1986)
  • Sim Min Teck, one of the three perpetrators of the 1980 Jurong fishing port murders (after 7 July 1986)
  • Kevin John Barlow and Brian Geoffrey Shergold Chambers, the first two Westerners who were sentenced to death in Malaysia for illegal drug trafficking (7 July 1986)
  • Lim Kok Yew, a fugitive and robber who used a firearm while committing the 1979 Tiong Bahru bus hijacking case (8 June 1984)
  • Yeo Ching Boon, Ong Hwee Kuan and Ong Chin Hock, the three kidnappers and robbers who killed taxi driver Chew Theng Hin and police conscript Lee Kim Lai in two separate cases (24 February 1984)
  • Haw Tua Tau, a Singaporean hawker sentenced to hang for murdering two hawkers at Margaret Drive Hawker Centre (1982)
  • Kalidass Sinnathamby Narayanasamy, a Singaporean army lance corporal sentenced to hang for molesting and killing his seven-year-old niece Usharani Ganaison (after 17 May 1982)
  • Low Hong Eng (a Singaporean seamstress) and Tan Ah Tee (a Malaysian illegal taxi driver), both executed for drug trafficking. Low was the first female to be hanged in Singapore for drug trafficking since 1975 (9 October 1981)
  • Botak Chin, real name Wong Swee Chin, Malaysian convicted armed robber who was sentenced to hang for the capital crime of possessing a firearm in Malaysia (11 June 1981)
  • Quek Kee Siong, Singaporean labourer sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a ten-year-old girl (after 19 November 1980)
  • Chang Bock Eng and Tay Cher Kiang, who were sentenced to death for a 1976 shooting incident at a paint shop in Singapore's Balestier Road (9 May 1980)
  • Tay Eng Whatt, an unemployed Singaporean sentenced to hang for murdering a call-girl syndicate operator (29 June 1979)
  • Visuvanathan Thillai Kannu, a Malaysian labourer found guilty of murdering a road sweeper and sentenced to hang (25 May 1979)
  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician (4 April 1979)
  • Talib Haji Hamzah, a Malaysian soto seller who was found guilty and hanged for being an accomplice of a firearm robbery under the Arms Offences Act (28 January 1977)
  • Nadarajah Govindasamy, Singaporean businessman who murdered the fiancé of his daughter (28 January 1977)
  • Sha Bakar Dawood, Singaporean seaman and armed robber, who was the first person to be executed under the Arms Offences Act of Singapore (3 September 1976)
  • K. Vijayan Krishnan, a Malaysian labourer executed for the 1973 murder of Ahora Murthi Krishnasamy (30 April 1976)
  • Pehn Kwan Jin, a Singaporean seaman hanged for the murder of a vegetable seller Tan Eng Kim at Bras Basah (16 April 1976)
  • Kiyoshi Ōkubo, Japanese serial killer (22 January 1976)
  • Liew Ah Chiew, a Singaporean army conscript convicted of fatally shooting his platoon commander Hor Koon Seng (29 November 1975)
  • Neoh Bean Chye and Lim Kim Huat, the two Malaysians hanged for shooting and killing wine shop proprietor Chew Liew Tea (27 June 1975)
  • Michael X, black revolutionary, for murder (16 May 1975)
  • Chelliah Silvanathan, a Singaporean who stabbed his senior gang member to death (11 April 1975)
  • Ismail U. K. Abdul Rahman, a Singaporean labourer who killed a one-armed man Karuppan Velusamy and was executed for the murder (28 February 1975)
  • Andrew Chou Hock Guan, David Chou Hock Heng, Peter Lim Swee Guan, Konesekaram Nagalingam, Alex Yau Hean Thye, Stephen Francis and Richard James, seven of the ten murderers involved in the 1971 Gold Bars triple murders (28 February 1975)
  • Chow Kim Hoong, a Malaysian-born stateless person found guilty of the 1969 killing his brother's fiancée in Singapore (3 August 1973)
  • Osman bin Ali, a gardener convicted and hanged for killing a cook and an amah at a bungalow in Leedon Park (27 July 1973)
  • Sim Woh Kum, husband and accomplice of Mimi Wong, who murdered a Japanese woman in Singapore (27 July 1973)
  • Mimi Wong, the first female prisoner to be executed for murder in Singapore (27 July 1973)
  • Lee Chor Pet, Lim Kim Kwee and Ho Kee Fatt, the three kidnappers who abducted and killed Ong Beang Leck, the 19-year-old son of a millionaire (27 January 1973)
  • Liew Kim Siong and Kee Ah Tee, two Singaporean youths found guilty of murdering two Hongkongers at a factory during a robbery bid (c. 1972)
  • Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary and political activist (6 May 1972)
  • Teo Cheng Leong, Singaporean armed robber and gunman (c. May 1971)
  • Akira Nishiguchi, Japanese serial killer (11 December 1970)
  • Lim Heng Soon and Low Ngah Ngah, the two Singaporeans found guilty of killing a police detective (after 20 March 1970)
  • Usman bin Haji Muhammad Ali and Harun Thohir, two of the three terrorists responsible for the MacDonald House bombing in Singapore, which killed three people on 10 March 1965 (17 October 1968)
  • Sunny Ang, a law student and Prix driver who became the first to be executed for a case of murder without a body in Singapore (6 February 1967)
  • Ronald Ryan (murderer), the last person executed in Australia (3 February 1967)
  • Tan Kheng Ann, Chia Yeow Fatt, Cheong Wai Sang, Somasundram s/o Subramaniam, Lim Tee Kang, Somasundarajoo s/o Vengdasalam, Lim Kim Chuan, Khoo Geok San, Chan Wah, Hoe Hock Hai, Ponapalam s/o Govindasamy, Chew Seng Hoe, Chew Thiam Huat, Sim Hoe Seng, Ng Cheng Liong, Tan Yin Chwee, Sim Teck Beng and Cheng Poh Kheng, the eighteen rioters who were found guilty of armed rioting and murder of four prison officers at the island prison of Pulau Senang (29 October 1965)
  • Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, murderers of the Clutter family (14 April 1965)
  • Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin, murderers, executed side by side in the last executions performed in Canada (11 December 1962)
  • Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal (31 May 1962)
  • Adnan Menderes, Turkish Prime Minister between 1950 and 1960 (17 September 1961)
  • Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer (14 October 1959)
  • Ruth Ellis, Welsh model, escort and last woman executed in the United Kingdom who was accused and executed for the murder of her lover (13 July 1955)
  • Derek Bentley, English man hanged for aiding the murder of a police officer during an attempted robbery (28 January 1953)
  • Marguerite "Madame le Corbeau" Pitre, Canadian conspirator in the bombing of Canadian Pacific Flight 108, last woman executed in Canada (9 January 1953)
  • Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (15 November 1949)
  • Narayan Apte, executed for his role in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (15 November 1949)
  • Yoshio Kodaira, Japanese serial killer (5 October 1949)
  • Hideki Tōjō, Prime Minister of Japan and war criminal (23 December 1948)
  • Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor-General of occupied Poland and war criminal (16 October 1946)
  • Wilhelm Frick, German Nazi Minister of the Interior 1933–1943 and war criminal (16 October 1946)
  • Alfred Jodl, German Nazi Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal (16 October 1946)
  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi highest surviving SS leader and war criminal (16 October 1946)
  • Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal (16 October 1946)
  • Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister and war criminal (16 October 1946)
  • Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi theorist and propagandist and war criminal (16 October 1946)
  • Amon Göth, Austrian Nazi commandant of the Nazi concentration camp in Płaszów and war criminal (13 September 1946)
  • Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general and war criminal (23 February 1946)
  • William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Nazi propagandist (3 January 1946)
  • Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard and war criminal (13 December 1945)
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (9 April 1945)
  • Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary (31 July 1940)
  • Roscoe "Red" Jackson, last public hanging in U.S., for murder (21 May 1937)
  • Rainey Bethea, last public hanging in Kentucky, for rape and murder (14 August 1936)
  • Tarakeswar Dastidar, Indian revolutionary (12 January 1934)
  • Surya Sen, Indian revolutionary (12 January 1934)
  • Dinesh Gupta, Indian revolutionary (7 July 1931)
  • Harikishan Talwar, Indian revolutionary (9 June 1931)
  • Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary (23 March 1931)
  • Sukhdev, Indian revolutionary (23 March 1931)
  • Shivaram Rajguru, Indian revolutionary (23 March 1931)
  • Rajendra Lahiri, Indian revolutionary (17 December 1927)
  • Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian revolutionary (19 December 1927)
  • Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian revolutionary (19 December 1927)
  • Roshan Singh, Indian revolutionary (19 December 1927)
  • Pramod Ranjan Choudhury, Indian revolutionary (28 September 1926)
  • Gopinath Saha, Indian revolutionary (1 March 1924)
  • Kevin Barry, Irish nationalist militant (1 November 1920)
  • Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (3 August 1916)
  • Manoranjan Sengupta, Indian revolutionary (15 October 1915)
  • Niren Dasgupta, Indian revolutionary (15 October 1915)
  • Basanta Kumar Biswas, Indian revolutionary (11 May 1915)
  • Hawley Harvey Crippen, convicted wife murderer (23 November 1910)
  • An Jung-geun, Korean-independence activist, known for Assassinating Itō Hirobumi (26 March 1910)
  • Satyendranath Basu, Indian revolutionary (21 November 1908)
  • Khudiram Bose, Indian revolutionary (11 August 1908)
  • Tom Horn, American frontier scout, lawman, private detective, and hired killer (1903)
  • Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum, American old west outlaw (26 April 1901)
  • H. H. Holmes, American serial killer and con man (7 May 1896)
  • William Henry Bury, murderer and Jack the Ripper suspect (24 April 1889)
  • Aleksandr Ulyanov, Russian revolutionary and brother of Vladimir Lenin, for plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III (8 May 1887)
  • Louis Riel, Canadian political activist, for high treason (6 November 1885)
  • Charles Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (30 June 1882)
  • Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, (11 November 1880)
  • Kate Webster, murderer of Julia Martha Thomas (29 July 1879)
  • Tom Dula, inspiration for the song "Tom Dooley", for murder (1 May 1868)
  • Henry Wirz, Confederate commandant of the notorious Andersonville POW camp (10 November 1865)
  • George Atzerodt, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (7 July 1865)
  • David Herold, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (7 July 1865)
  • Lewis Powell, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (7 July 1865)
  • Mary Surratt, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (7 July 1865)
  • Boone Helm, American frontier outlaw and serial killer known as "The Kentucky Cannibal" (14 January 1864)
  • John Brown, militant U.S. anti-slavery activist (2 December 1859)
  • Jemadar Iswari Prasad, part of Indian Sepoy Mutiny (21 April 1857)
  • Mangal Pandey, leader of Indian Sepoy Mutiny (8 April 1857)
  • John André, British officer, for espionage (2 October 1780)
  • Nathan Hale, American patriot (22 September 1776)
  • Maharaja Nandakumar, Indian tax collector on false allegations which led to the impeachment of Warren Hastings (5 August 1775)
  • Nian Gengyao, Chinese military commander of the Qing dynasty (13 January 1726)
  • Dulla Bhatti, Punjabi who led a revolt against Mughal rule during the rule of the emperor Akbar (1599)
  • Yue Fei, Chinese military general, calligrapher, and poet of the Song dynasty (28 January 1142)
  • Yang Guifei, consort of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang who was thought of the cause of An Lushan Rebellion (15 July 756)
  • Yan Zhenqing, Chinese calligrapher, military general, and politician of the Tang dynasty (785)
  • Zhangsun Wuji, Chinese chancellor of the Tang dynasty (659)
  • Emperor Yang of Sui, second and last emperor of the Sui dynasty (11 April 618)
  • Fu Jian, emperor of Former Qin (385)

Accidental hanging

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Newspaper photo taken shortly after the arrest of Sada Abe (center) in Tokyo in 1936
  • Sada Abe (1905–after 1971), Japanese geisha killed her lover through strangulation while he was sleeping, after having experimented with erotic asphyxiation, in 1936, proceeding to cut off his penis and testicles and carry them around with her in her kimono for three days.
  • Vaughn Bodé (1941–1975), American artist, died during autoerotic asphyxiation
  • Albert Dekker (1905–1968), American actor, found dead in his bathroom in with a noose around his neck, looped around the shower curtain rod.
  • Frantisek Kotzwara (1730–1791), Czech violinist composer, died during erotic asphyxiation
  • Nigel Tetley (c. 1924–1972), British sailor who was the first person to circumnavigate the world solo in a trimaran; his body was found hanging from a tree, clothed in lingerie, considered by the pathologist to have been engaging in masochistic sexual activity.
  • Diane Herceg sued Hustler magazine in 1983, accusing it of causing the death of her 14-year-old son, who had experimented with autoerotic asphyxia after reading about it in that publication and whose nude body was found hanging by its neck in closet, while spread at his feet was a copy of Hustler opened to its article on "Orgasm of Death.".[9]
  • Stephen Milligan (1948–1994), British politician and Conservative MP for Eastleigh, died from autoerotic asphyxiation, wearing only stockings and suspenders.[10]
  • Kevin Gilbert (1966–1996), musician and songwriter, died of apparent autoerotic asphyxiation[11]
  • David Carradine (1936 – June 3, 2009), American actor died from accidental asphyxiation, according to medical examiner who performed a private autopsy.[12][13] His body was found hanging by a rope in a closet in his hotel room in Thailand,[14][15] and there was evidence of a recent orgasm;[16] two autopsies were conducted and concluded that his death was not suicide, and the Thai forensic pathologist who examined the body stated that his death may have been due to autoerotic asphyxiation.[17][18] Two of Carradine's ex-wives, Gail Jensen[19][20] and Marina Anderson,[21][22] stated publicly that his sexual interests included the practice of self-bondage.

References

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  1. ^ "Ship Captain Ends Life: Despondent, He Hangs Himself in Room in a Brooklyn Hotel". The New York Times. New York City. The New York Times Company. 24 November 1945. p. 21.
  2. ^ "Ex-Nazi Hangs Himself in Cell" The New York Times, page 21, September 16, 1959.
  3. ^ David Foster Wallace, 46, Writer, Dies
  4. ^ Nelson, Katie (20 November 2009). "Daul Kim, famed South Korean Fashion Week model, found dead in Paris in apparent suicide: cops". Daily News. New York.
  5. ^ "AMBROSE OLSEN DEAD: Male Model Dies At Age 24", 23 March 2011, The Huffington Post
  6. ^ "Supermodel-actress Viveka Babajee hangs self in India", 26 June 2010, Manila Bulletin Publishing
  7. ^ "'Talent' Miyu Uehara dead after apparently hanging herself at home", 12 May 2011, Japan Today
  8. ^ Levs, Josh; Duke, Alan. "Officials: Robin Williams apparently hanged himself with a belt". CNN. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  9. ^ John W. Williams (1990). "Can the media kill? A syndrome, a case study and the law". Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 23 March 2009.
  10. ^ "Police probe MP's suspicious death". BBC News, 8 February 1994
  11. ^ Joel Selvin (16 September 1996). "More Than 'The Piano Player'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  12. ^ Orloff, Brian. "David Carradine Died of Accidental Asphyxiation" Archived 31 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine. People, 2 July 2009.
  13. ^ "David Carradine's Official Cause of Death was Asphyxiation". Inquisitr.com. 2 July 2009. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
  14. ^ Goldman, Russell (4 June 2009). "Police: Carradine Found Naked, Hanged in Closet". ABC News. Retrieved 4 June 2009.
  15. ^ "Actor David Carradine Found Dead". CNN. 4 June 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.
  16. ^ "Forensic Scientist Says Carradine Death May Be Linked to Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation". Fox News. 5 June 2009. Archived from the original on 15 November 2010.
  17. ^ "Carradine Death 'Erotic Asphyxiation'". Bangkok Post. 6 June 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
  18. ^ Drummond, Andrew (5 June 2009). "Kung Fu Star David Carradine Died 'When Auto Erotic Sex Game Went Wrong'". Daily Record. Archived from the original on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
  19. ^ James, Susan Donaldson (9 June 2009). "Ex-Wife Reveals David Carradine's 'Kinky' Habits". ABC News. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
  20. ^ "David Carradine Branded 'Strange' by Ex". Contactmusic.com. 9 June 2009. Retrieved 11 June 2009.
  21. ^ McShane, Larry (5 June 2009). "David Carradine a Fan of 'Potentially Deadly' Deviant Sex Acts, Ex-Wife Said in Court Papers". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 8 June 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
  22. ^ Darwar, Anil (8 June 2009). "Carradine Loved Deadly Sex Games, Says Ex-Wife". Daily Express. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
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