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Lists of executed people for religious offenses, including heresy, apostasy, impiety, desecration and blasphemy. This list includes people executed legally and semi-legally but not people murdered extrajudicially.
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Afghanistan
More information Name, Date ...
| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sahibzada Abdul Latif | 14 July 1903 | Apostasy | Stoning |
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Austria
More information Name, Date ...
| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franz Wunderlich[1] | 1688 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Maria Anna Rossenberger (19)[1] | 1697 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Anna Rosina[1] | 1702 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Maria Francisca Rosenburgerin (19)[1] | 12 May 1705 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Maria Catherina N. (24)[1] | 17 February 1707 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Elisabeth Stainin (23)[1] | 16 March 1708 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Hans Georg Fritsch (47)[1] | June 1709 | Blasphemy | Beheading |
| Elizabeth N. (31)[1] | 10 December 1709 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Maria Anna Kaufeuthner (28)[1] | 1710 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Johann Posch (19)[1] | 7 June 1712 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Anna Catherina Köpferin (18)[1] | 12 July 1712 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Clara Dorothea Jancovitschin (23)[1] | 30 August 1712 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Maria Susanna Grallin (19)[1] | 27 September 1712 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Maria Magdalena Zechirlin (20)[1] | |||
| Maria Elisabeth N. (20)[1] | 17 November 1712 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Benigna Rosina Weninger (17)[1] | 23 November 1712 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Maria Magdalena N. (18)[1] | 8 February 1713 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Stefan Maurer (16)[1] | 9 August 1713 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Unnamed girl (15)[1] | 31 August 1713 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Magdalena N. (19)[1] | 20 October 1713 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Unnamed woman (26)[1] | 2 March 1714 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Unnamed woman (20)[1] | 24 March 1714 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Unnamed woman (19)[1] | 8 August 1714 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Andreas Mühlbacher (17)[1] | 27 March 1715 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Maria Anna Wälnerin (22)[1] | 3 April 1715 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Adam Hirschbeck (15)[1] | 18 June 1715 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Andreas Frisch (16)[1] | 13 December 1715 | Blasphemy | Beheading |
| Anna Margaretha N. (26)[1] | 25 October 1716 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Anna Maria Nitzlin[1] | November 1718 | Desecration | Beheading |
| Unnamed woman | 11 June 1720 | Desecration | Beheading |
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Czech Republic
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| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan Olivetsky | 20 September 1546 | Blasphemy | Beaheading[2] |
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France
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| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jean-François de la Barre | 1 July 1766 | Impiety and desecration | Beaheading |
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Iran
More information Name, Date ...
| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hossein Soodmand[3] | 3 December 1990 | Apostasy | Hanging |
| Bahman Samandari[4] | 18 March 1992 | Apostasy | Unknown |
| Ruhollah Rohani[5] | 21 July 1998 | Apostasy | Unknown |
| Seyed Ali Gharabat[3] | 26 January 2011 | Apostasy | Hanging |
| Mohsen Amiraslani | 24 September 2014 | Blasphemy | Hanging |
| Yousef Mehrdad | 8 May 2023 | Blasphemy | Hanging |
| Sadrollah Fazeli Zare | |||
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Italy
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| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio Rinaldeschi | 1501 | Desecration | |
| Solomon Molcho | 13 December 1532 | Apostasy | Burning at stake |
| Francesco Calcagno | 23 December 1550 | Blasphemy and homosexuality | |
| Giordano Bruno | 17 February 1600 | Heresy | Burning at stake |
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Netherlands
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| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Utenhoven | 17 July 1597 | Heresy | Burned at stake |
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Ottoman Empire
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| Name | Date | Crime | Method | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Armenian | 1843 | Apostasy | Beaheading | Accepted Islam, but later returned to Christianity.[6] |
| Unknown man | 1852 | Apostasy | Beaheading | Converted from Islam to Christianity, executed in Aleppo.[7] |
| Unknown man | 1853 | Apostasy | Beaheading | Converted from Islam to Christianity, executed in Adrianople. |
| Batto Sfez Affair | 1857 | Blasphemy | Beaheading | |
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Poland
Main article: Polish Inquisition § List of executions of heretics from the judgment of the Inquisition courts
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| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikołaj Grunberg | 25 June 1453 | Heresy | Burning at stake |
| Adam from Radziejów[8] | Late September 1499 | Heresy | Burning at stake |
| Katarzyna Weiglowa | 19 April 1539 | Apostasy | Burning at stake |
| Iwan Tyszkiewicz | 1611 | Blasphemy | Burning at stake |
| Franco de Franco | 30 June 1611 | Blasphemy | Quartering |
| Kazimierz Łyszczyński | 30 March 1689 | Atheism | Burning at stake |
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Portugal
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| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ana Rodrigues (settler) | 1593 | Judaism | Burning at stake |
| Isaac de Castro Tartas | 15 December 1647 | Judaism | Burning at stake |
| Gabriel Malagrida | 21 September 1671 | Heresy | Strangulation |
| António José da Silva | 18 October 1739 | Judaism | Strangulation |
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Spain
Muslim Spain
Main article: Martyrs of Córdoba
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| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perfectus | 18 April 850 | Blasphemy | Beheading |
| Sisenandus of Beja | 16 July 851 | Blasphemy | Beheading |
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Christian Spain
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| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miguel de Almazán | February 1486 | Judaism | Burning at stake |
| Hernando Alonso | 17 October 1528 | Judaism | Burning at stake |
| María de Bohórquez | 1559 | Heresy | Burning at stake |
| Francisca Nuñez de Carabajal | 8 December 1569 | Apostasy | Burning at stake |
| Luis de Carvajal the Younger | 8 December 1596 | Judaism | Garrote |
| Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte | 14 April 1649 | Judaism | Burning at stake |
| Maria Barbara Carillo | 18 May 1721 | Judaism | Burning at stake |
| Cayetano Ripoll | 26 July 1826 | Heresy | Burning at stake |
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Somalia
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| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abdirahman Ahmed | 15 January 2009 | Apostasy | |
| Mohamud Mursal Muse[9] | 2015 | Blasphemy | |
| Hassan Tohow Fidow | 2021 | Blasphemy | Firing squad[9] |
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Sweden
More information Name, Date ...
| Name | Date | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Botulf Botulfsson | April 1311 | Heresy | Burned at stake |
| Ragvald Odenskarl | 27 October 1484 | Paganism | Burned at stake |
| Eric Clauesson | 1492 | Paganism | Burned at stake |
| 82 people | 7–9 November 1520 | Heresy | Beheaded |
| Lars Nilsson | 1693 | Paganism | Burned at stake |
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Other countries
More information Name, Date ...
| Name | Date | Jurisdiction | Modern country | Crime | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socrates | 399 BC | Classical Athens |  Greece | Impiety | Poison |
| al-Hallaj | 26 March 922 | Abbasid Caliphate |  Iraq | Heresy | Beheading |
| Thomas of Tolentino | 8 April 1321 | Delhi Sultanate |  India | Blasphemy | Beheading |
| Adam Duff O'Toole | 11 April 1328 |  Kingdom of England |  Ireland | Heresy | Burning at stake |
| Jan Hus | 6 July 1415 | Holy Roman Empire |  Germany | Heresy | Burning at stake |
| Hellen Stirk | 27 January 1544 | Kingdom of Scotland |  United Kingdom | Impiety | |
| Bartholomew Legate | 18 March 1612 | Kingdom of England | United Kingdom | Heresy | Burning at stake |
| Thomas Aikenhead | 8 January 1697 |  Kingdom of Scotland | United Kingdom | Blasphemy | Burning at stake |
| Mahmoud Mohammed Taha | 18 January 1985 |  Sudan | Sudan | Apostasy and blasphemy | Beheading |
| Sadeq Mallallah | 3 September 1992 |  Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia | Apostasy and blasphemy | Beheading |
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