List of executioners
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This is a list of people who have acted as official executioners.
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Algeria
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Alger
| Joseph Baroux | 1842-1847 |
| Nicolas Wolf | 1847-1855 |
| Antoine Rasseneux | 1855-1871 |
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Monsieur d'Alger
In 1870 the Republic of France abolished all local executioners and named the executioner of Alger, Antoine Rasseneux, Éxécuteur des Arrêts Criminels en Algérie, which became France's official description of the executioner's of Algeria occupation. From there on there would be one only executioner to carry out death sentences for entire Algeria. Since the colony's executioner had obligatorily to live in Alger, people soon started to refer to him as to the "Monsieur d'Alger", "The Mister from Alger". At the occasion of his nomination, Rasseneux could chose four among France's and Algeria's former local executioners to be his aides.
| Antoine Rasseneux | 1871-1885 |
| Gustave Rasseneux | 1885-1906 |
| Pierre Lapeyre | 1906-1928 |
| Henri Roch | 1928-1944 |
| André-Léon Berger | 1944-1947 |
| Maurice-Alexandre Meyssonnier | 1947-1958(de facto)/1961(official) |
| Fernand-Jean Meyssonnier | 1958-1961 |
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Austria
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Hall in Tirol
| Lienhart von Grätz | 1497-1503 |
| Stefan Ruef | 1503-1525 |
| Hans Schaider | 1525-1528 |
| Heinrich Käser | 1525 |
| Johann Frey | 1528-1571 |
| Melchior Frey | 1572-1578 |
| Christof Tollinger | 1578-1584 |
| Michael Fürst | 1584-1606 |
| Sebastian Oberstetter | 1606-1608 |
| Jakob Kienle | 1608-1611 |
| Jakob Vollmar | 1611-1618 |
| Hans Has | 1618-1642 |
| Heinrich Hödel | 1642-1645 |
| Othmar Krieger | 1645-1671 |
| Jakob Zäch | 1671-1677 |
| Andreas Leiner | 1677-1693 |
| Kaspar Pöltl | 1693-1698 |
| Sebastian Waldl | 1699-1718 |
| Marx Philipp Abrell | 1718-1728 |
| Johann Jakob Abrell | 1728-1746 |
| Josef Langmayr | 1746 |
| Bartholomeus Putzer | 1747-1772 |
| Johann Georg Putzer | 1772-1786 |
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Meran
| Hans Säbele | 1488-1509 |
| Martin Vogl | 1510 |
| Gilg von Rodem | 1510-1515 |
| Heinrich Reif | 1515 and 1521-1522 |
| Lorenz von Altsee | 1515-1521 |
| Heinrich Käser | 1522-1525 |
| Jakob Gatz | 1524 |
| Hans Schwingsmesser | 1525-1536 |
| Theodor Reichl | 1572-1575 |
| Johann Peter Vollmar | 1552-1561 |
| Klaus Seckler | 1562 |
| Melchior Frey | 1563-1572 |
| Mattheus Leonhard | 1575-1601 |
| Hans Fürst | 1592 |
| Georg Fürst | ?-1621 |
| Wolfgang Fürst | 1605-1623 |
| Wolfgang Helmschmied | 1536-1552 |
| Wolfgang Puechamer | 1601-1605 |
| Michael Pichler | 1623-1631 |
| Leonhard Oberdorfer | 1632-1672 |
| Johann Schlechuber | 1672 |
| Hans Schwarzhuber | 1673-1675 |
| Konrad Leonhard Krieger | 1675-1679 |
| Hans Jakob Müller | 1679-1684 |
| Franz Wagner | 1684-1690 |
| Jakob Fürst | 1690-1694 |
| Johann Georg Wacker | 1694-1723 |
| Johann Jakob Abrell | 1723-1728 |
| Johann Georg Kober | 1728-1748 |
| Martin Putzer | 1748-1772 |
| Bartholomeus Putzer | 1772-1777 |
| Franz Michael Putzer | 1777-1787 |
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Salzburg
| Franz Joseph Wohlmut | 1757-1817/21 (deceased 1823) |
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Vienna
| Paul ? | ~1463 |
| Jörg Carlhofer | ~1486 |
| Schrottenbacher family | 1550-1802 |
| Joachim Stein | ~1618 |
| ? Willenbacher | ~1868 (Vienna-Meidling) |
| Johann Hamberger | ~1700 |
| Johann Georg Hoffmann I. | 1802-1827 |
| Simon Abel | 1827-1839 |
| ? Seyfried | 1829- |
| Johann Georg Hoffmann II. | 1839-1865 |
| Johann Georg Hoffmann III. | 1865-1874 |
| ? Willenbacher | 1874-1892 |
| Karl Sellinger | 1862-1899 |
| w:de:Josef Lang (Henker) | 1900-1918 |
| w:de:Johann Lang (Henker) | 1933-1938 |
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Belgium
| ? Ance | ~1789 (Rochefort) |
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Canada
| John Radclive | 1892-1911 |
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Czech Republic
| Jan Mydlář | (1572-1664) (Prague) |
| ? Kotzurek | ~1835 (Brno) |
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Denmark
| w:da:Theodor Seistrup | 1881-1906 |
| Carl Peter Hermann Christensen | 1906-1926 |
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France
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Paris
| Nicolas Levasseur | ????-1685 |
| Charles-Louis Sanson | 1685 (de facto)/1688 (official)-1699 (de facto)/1703 (official) |
| Charles Sanson | 1699 (de facto)/1707 (official)-1726 |
| François Prudhomme | 1726-1739 |
| Charles-Jean-Baptiste Sanson | 1739-1754 (de facto)/1778 (official) |
| Charles-Henri Sanson | 1754 (de facto)/1778 (official)-1793 (de facto)/1804 (official) |
| Henri Sanson | 1793 (de facto)/1804 (official)-1840 |
| Henry-Clément Sanson | 1840-1847 (he was an inveterate abolitionist) |
| Charles-André Férey | 1847-1849 |
| Jean-François Heidenreich | 1849-1871 |
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Monsieur de Paris
In 1870 the Republic of France abolished all local executioners and named the executioner of Paris, Jean-François Heidenreich, Éxécuteur des Arrêts Criminels, which became France's official description of the executioner's occupation. From there on there would be one only executioner to carry out death sentences for entire France. Since the Republic's executioner had obligatorily to live in Paris, people soon started to refer to him as to the "Monsieur de Paris", "The Mister from Paris". At the occasion of his nomination, Heidenreich could chose four among France's former local executioners to be his aides.
| Jean-François Heidenreich | 1871-1872 |
| Nicolas Roch | 1872-1879 |
| Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Deibler | 1879-1898 |
| Anatole-François-Joseph Deibler | 1899-1939 |
| Jules-Henri Desfourneaux | 1939-1951 |
| André-Albert Obrecht | 1951-1976 |
| Marcel-Charles Chevalier | 1976-1981 |
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Amiens
| Henry Ganié | -1853 |
| Nicolas Roch | 1853-1871 (after 1853, see → Paris) |
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Ardèche
| Pierre Roch | 1833 |
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Calvados
| Charles-Louis Jouënne | ~1850 |
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Caudebec
| Jouhanne"-Justice" | mentioned in 1380 |
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Chalon-sur-Saône
| François-Joseph Heidenreich | 1806-18?? |
| Alphonse-Léon Berger | 1863-1872 (after 1872 aide in Paris |
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Dièppe
| Pierre Juoanne | -1662 |
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Dijon
| Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Desmorest | ~1823 |
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Épernay
| Charles Jouënne | 1730 |
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Évreux
| Nicolas-Lubin Jouënne | 1737 |
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Hautes-Alpes
| Alexandre-Victor Jouënne | ?-? |
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Jura
| François Desmorets | -1843 |
| Nicolas Roch | 1843-1853 (after 1853, see → Amiens) |
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Laval
| Jacques-Joseph Durand | -1819 (executed for homicide) |
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Le Mans
| Nicolas-Louis Jouënne | ~1750 |
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Lyon
| Claude Chrétien | ~1815 |
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Mende
| François Roch | 1813 |
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Melun
| Georges Hérisson | 1729- |
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Pas-de-Calais
| Charles Jouënne | ?-? |
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Pays du Caux
| Nicolas "La Justice" Jouhanne | mentioned in 1202 |
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Reims
| Nicolas Gabriel Sanson | 1754 |
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Rennes
| Joseph-Antoine Deibler | 1853-1863 |
| Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Deibler | 1863-1871 (after 1871, see → Paris) |
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Saint-Omer
| Jean Rombaud | 30ies of 16th century (in 1536 called to England to execute Ann Boleyn) |
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Var
| François-Joseph Heidenreich | 1814-1827 |
| Jean-François Heidenreich | 1827-1848 (after 1848, see → Paris) |
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Vaucluse
| Nicolas Roch | 1838-1843 (after 1843, see → Jura) |
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Versailles (Cour du Roi)
| Nicolas Charles Gabriel Sanson | -1778 |
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etc
| Henriet Cousin | 2nd. half of 17th century (Paris) |
| François Prudhomme | 1729-17.. (Monsieur de Paris an assistant) |
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French Guyana
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Monsieur de Cayenne
Cayenne Central Prison had its own guillotine but has never used it. All death sentences were carried out at the Bagne in Saint-Laurent were the local condemned to death were transported to. So there currently seems no way to know if except at the Bagne French Guyana has even ever had an executioner at least officially.
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Monsieur de Saint-Laurent
All executioners of Saint-Laurent were Bagne inmates themselves.
| [[]] | -1898 |
| Isidore Hespel | 1898-1921 (nicked "Le Chacal" by the other inmates) |
| Bonnefoy | 1921-1923 (nicked "Charlot" by the other inmates) |
| Louis Ladurelle | 1923-1937 |
| [[]] | 1937-1943 (nicked "Mouche à Bœuf" by the other inmates) |
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Germany
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India
| Nata Mallick (West Bengal) |
Shiblal Mallick (West Bengal)
Mammu Singh (Meerut, Uttar Pradesh)
Arjun Bhika Jadhav (Maharashtra)
Janardhan Pillai (Kerala)
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Ireland
| Elizabeth ? (known as Lady Betty) | 1780-1810 (Roscommon) |
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Malaysia
| Rajendran Kuppusamy | -1986 |
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New Caledonia
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Monsieur de la Bagne
All executioners of New Caledonia's Bagne were inmates themselves.
| Jugaret | 1937-1943 (nicked "La Gueule" by the other inmates) |
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New Zealand
| Tom Long | 1877 - 1908 |
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Norway
| w:no:Augustus Høcker | 1689-1721 |
| w:no:Johan Heinrich Helmschläger | 1684-1760 |
| w:no:August Lædel | 1733-1749 |
| w:no:Anton Lædel | 1799 - 1833 |
| w:no:Torbjørn Pedersen | 1828-1834 |
| w:no:Samson Isberg | 1841-1864 |
| w:no:Theodor Larsen | 1864- |
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Papal States
| Giovanni Bugatti | 1796-1865 |
| Antonio Balducci | 1865-1870 |
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Russia (USSR)
| Vasili Blokhin | 1926-1952 |
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Saudi Arabia
| Ahmed Rezkallah (Picture [1]) |
| Muhammad Saad al-Beshi (Report [2], Interview [3]) |
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Singapore
| Darshan Singh | 1959–present |
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South Africa
| Christiaan "Chris" Barnard | 19??–1995 (no relation to heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard) |
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Spain
| w:es:Antonio López Sierra | 1949-1975 |
| w:es:Vicente López Copete | 1953-1974 |
| w:es:Bernardo Sánchez Bascuñana | 1949-1972 |
| w:es:José Monero | 1972-1974 |
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Sweden
| Johan Fredrik Hjort (Stockholm) | 1862-1882 |
| Per Petter Christiansson Steineck (Jönköping/Vadstena) | 1864-1887 |
| Albert Gustaf Dahlman (originally in Stockholm, from 1901 for the entire country) | 1885-1920 |
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Switzerland
| Bernhard Schlegel | -1374 (Bâle) |
| François Tabazan | -1624 (Geneva) |
| Baltzer Mengis | ~1652 (Lucerne) |
| Christoph Mengis | - 1653 (Schwyz) |
| Christoph II. Mengis | 1653-1681 (Schwyz) |
| Johannes Mengis | 1681-1695 (Schwyz) |
| Balthasar Mengis | 1695-1723 (Schwyz) |
| Vollmar family | 1695- (Saint-Gall) |
| ? Deigentesch | ~1716 (Fribourg) |
| Bernhard Mengis | 1723- (Schwyz) |
| ? Mengis | - 1779 (Schwyz) |
| ? Vollmer | ~1782 (Glarus) |
| Johann Melchior Grossholz | -1815 (Schwyz) |
| ? Vollmer | 20ies of the 19th century (Zurique) |
| Augustin Grossholz | 1815-1826 (Schwyz) |
| Franz Grossholz | 1822- (Zug) |
| Joseph Pickel | 1826-1829 (Schwyz) |
| Oswald Schlumpf | 1829-1830 (Schwyz) |
| Franz Xaver Schmid | 1830-1855 (Schwyz, Zug and Glarus) |
| Theodor Mengis) | 1839-1918 (Berne and Rheinfelden) |
| Johann Bettenmann | 1855-1857 (Schwyz and Saint-Gall) |
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United Kingdom
| Godwine Porthund | 1006 |
| Cratwell | to 1538 |
| Stump-leg | to 1558 |
| ? Bull | before 1593-1601 |
| Thomas Derrick | 1601- before 1616 |
| Gregory Brandon | before 1616- before 1640 |
| Richard Brandon | before 1640-1649 |
| ? Lowen | 1649 |
| Edward Dun | 1649-1663 |
| Jack Ketch | 1663-1686 |
| Paskah Rose | 1686 (Bleackley (1929) graphs his name as Pasha Rose) |
| John Price | 1714-1715 |
| William Marvell | 1715-1717 |
| James Aird | 1715-1723 |
| ? Banks (known as Banks the Bailiff) | 1717- after 1718 |
| Richard Arnet | before 1726-1728 |
| John Hooper | 1728-1735 |
| John Thrift | 1735-1752 |
| Thomas Turlis | 1752-1771 |
| Edward Dennis | 1771-1786 |
| Edward Barlow | 1781-1812 |
| William Brunskill | 1786-1814 |
| William Taylor | -1810 |
| James Botting | 1813/17-1819 |
| John Langley | 1814-1817 |
| James Botting | 1817-1820 |
| Thomas Cheshire | 1820 (assistant from 1808 to 1820 and from 1820 to 1840) |
| James Foxen | 1820-1829) |
| William Lee | -1827 |
| William Calcraft | 1829-1874 |
| John Scott | 1835-1847 |
| George Smith | 1849-1872 |
| Thomas Askern | 1853–1876 |
| Robert Anderson Evans | 1873–1875 |
| William Marwood | 1874–1883 |
| George Meker, or George Incher | 1875–1881 |
| Bartholomew Binns | 1883–1884 |
| James Berry | 1884–1891 |
| James Billington | 1884–1901 |
| Thomas Billington | 1897–1901 |
| William Billington | 1902–1905 |
| John Billington | 1901–1905 |
| Thomas Henry Scott | 1892–1895 |
| John Ellis | 1901–1923/24 |
| Henry Albert Pierrepoint | 1901–1910 |
| William Willis | 1906–1926 |
| Thomas Pierrepoint | 1909–1946 |
| Robert Orridge Baxter | 1915–1935 |
| Thomas Mather Phillips | 1918–1941 |
| Robert Wilson | 1920–1936 |
| Alfred Allen | 1928–1937 |
| Stanley William Cross | 1932–1941 |
| Albert Pierrepoint | 1932–1956 |
| Henry Kirk, or Harry Kirk | 1941–1950 |
| Stephen Wade, or Steve Wade | 1941–1955 |
| Harry Bernard Allen | 1941–1964 |
| Syd Dernley | 1949–1954 |
| Robert Leslie Stewart | 1950–1964 |
| Royston Lawrence Rickard | 1953–1964 |
| Harry Frank Robinson | 1958–1964 |
| Samuel Barrass Plant | 1961–1964 |
| John Underhill | 1963–1964 |
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United States
John C. Woods 1903-1950. Hangman for the Third Army in WWII. He was one of the hangmen who executed Nazi war criminals.
Joseph Malta (1918–1999) was the hangman who, with John C. Woods, executed the top 10 leaders of the Third Reich in Nuremberg on October 16, 1946, for crimes against humanity.
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Alabama
| Murray Daniels, assistant warden at Kilby Prison in the 1950's, involved in eleven executions. |
| Charlie Jones, warden at Holman Prison from 1988-2002, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences, |
| Grant Culliver, warden at Holman Prison from 2002-2009, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences, |
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Arkansas
| Maledon, George |
During the first part of the twentieth century, operators of the electric chair were known as "State electricians".
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California
| Max Brice - executioner from mid-1950s to 1967 |
Daniel Vasquez - warden of San Quentin prison who served as executioner at the gas chamber executions of Robert Alton Harris in 1992 and the execution of David Mason the following year.
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Indiana
| Jack P. Duckworth | 1981 - Warden of Indiana State Prison at Michigan City who was required by law to throw the switch at the electrocution of Steven Judy. |
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Mississippi
| Jimmy Thompson, executioner - 1940-1950 |
| T. Berry Bruce - 1957-1987 |
| Donald Hocutt - 1987-1995 |
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New York
| Edwin Davis | 1891–? |
| John Hulbert | 1913–1926 |
| Robert Elliott | 1926–1939 |
| Joseph Francel | 1939–1953 |
| Dow Hover | 1953–1963 |
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Oklahoma
| Rich Owens, corrections officer- 1918-1947 |
| Mike Mayfield, corrections officer- 1962-1966 |
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Pennsylvania
Frank Wilson (executioner) electrical industry superintendent from Pittsburgh area who served as executioner between 1949 and 1953 at Rockview Prison.
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