List of people executed in Romania

This is a list of people executed in Romania. The list includes judicial executions carried out on the territory of present-day Romania, whether by that state or its antecedents.

Hanging scene by the Moldavian scribe Năstase Negrule, in a 1790 copy of the Alexander Romance

Earlier jurisdictions

• Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526)
  • György Dózsa, peasant revolt leader, July 20, 1514
• Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)
  • Sándor Kendi, anti-Habsburg noble, August 30, 1594
  • Balthasar Báthory, anti-Habsburg noble, September 11, 1594
  • Farkas Kovacsóczy, anti-Habsburg noble, September 11, 1594
  • István Jósika, statesman, September 11, 1598
  • Starina Novak, prisoner of war, February 5, 1601

The execution of Horea and Cloșca in Alba Iulia, February 28, 1785

• Habsburg monarchy
  • Horea and Cloșca, leaders of the Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan, February 28, 1785
  • Norbert Ormay, colonel in the 1848 revolution, August 22, 1849
  • The 13 Martyrs of Arad, generals in the 1848 revolution, October 6, 1849
• Moldavia
  • Luca Arbore, diplomat, April 1523
  • Bartolomeo Bruti, diplomat, 1591
  • Andronikos Kantakouzenos, statesman, 1601
  • Nichifor Beldiman, statesman, c. 1616
  • Alexandru Coci, statesman, 1653
  • Vasile Gheuca and Gavril Costachi, statesmen, 1680
  • Manolache Bogdan and Ioniță Cuza, statesmen, August 18, 1778
• Wallachia
  • Udrea Băleanu, statesman, c. May 1601
  • Leca of Cătun, statesman, February or March 1616
  • Hrizea of Bogdănei, pretender, April to September 1657
  • Istratie Leurdeanu, statesman, 1658
  • Diicul Buicescul, pretender, July 1659
  • Constantin I Cantacuzino, statesman, 1663
  • Staico Bucșanu [ro], statesman, June 7, 1693
• Ottoman Empire
  • Lupu Mehedințeanu, statesman, 1618
  • Constantine Hangerli, Prince of Wallachia, February 18, 1799
• Hungarian State
  • Stephan Ludwig Roth, 1848 revolutionary, May 11, 1849
  • Ioan Buteanu, 1848 revolutionary, May 23, 1849
• Austria-Hungary
  • Emil Rebreanu, military officer, May 14, 1917

Kingdom of Romania

Execution of Ion Antonescu, Mihai Antonescu, Gheorghe Alexianu, and Constantin Vasiliu [ro] at Jilava Prison, June 1, 1946

• Filimon Sârbu, communist activist and anti-fascist militant, July 19, 1941
• Francisc Panet, communist activist, November 7, 1941
• Pompiliu Ștefu, communist activist and anti-fascist militant, March 28, 1942
• Nicolae Mohănescu, socialist activist and anti-fascist militant, 1942
• Petre Gheorghe, communist activist and anti-fascist militant, February 8, 1943
• Ion Antonescu, World War II-era dictator, June 1, 1946
• Mihai Antonescu, foreign minister under Ion Antonescu, June 1, 1946
• Gheorghe Alexianu, governor of Transnistria, June 1, 1946
• Constantin Vasiliu [ro], general and Gendermarie commander, June 1, 1946

Communist period

• Nicolae Dabija, anti-communist resistance fighter (together with 6 other members of his group), October 28, 1949
• Remus Koffler, communist activist, April 17, 1954
• Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, purged justice minister, April 17, 1954
• Eugen Țurcanu, Pitești Prison figure, December 17, 1954
• Iosif Capotă, anti-communist resistance fighter, September 2, 1958
• Toma Arnăuțoiu, anti-communist resistance fighter (together with his brother and 14 other members of his group), July 18, 1959
• Oliviu Beldeanu [ro], lead participant in the 1955 seizure of the Romanian embassy in Bern, February 18, 1960
• Ioanid Gang, group of five bank robbers, 1960
• Gheorghe Arsenescu, anti-communist resistance fighter, May 29, 1962
• Ion Rîmaru, serial killer, October 23, 1971
• Gheorghe Ștefănescu, businessman convicted of economic crimes, December 14, 1981
• Ion Pistol, convicted murderer, May 12, 1987
• Vasile Trifan, convicted murderer, May 13, 1987^[1][2]

Romanian Revolution

Main article: Trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu

• Nicolae Ceaușescu, dictator, December 25, 1989
• Elena Ceaușescu, wife of Nicolae, December 25, 1989

See also

• Capital punishment in Romania