List of executioners

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This is a list of people who have acted as official executioners.

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[edit] Canada

Arthur Ellis 1912-1935

[edit] Czech Republic

Jan Mydlář (1572-1664) (Prague)

[edit] France

Charles Sanson 1675-1699
Charles Sanson fils 1707-1726
Charles Jean-Baptiste Sanson 1739-c.1778
Charles Henri Sanson 1788-1795
Henri Sanson 1795-1830
Henry-Clément Sanson 1830-1847
Charles-André Ferey 1847-1849
Jean-François Heidenreich 1849-1872
Nicolas Roch 1872-1879
Louis Deibler 1879-1898
Anatole Deibler 1899-1939
Jules-Henri Desfourneaux 1939-1951
André Obrecht 1951-1976
Marcel Chevalier 1976-1981

[edit] Germany

Franz Schmidt 1573-1617 (Nuremberg)
Johann Reichhart 1924-1946

[edit] India

Nata Mallick (West Bengal)

[edit] Papal States

Giovanni Bugatti

[edit] Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Saad al-Beshi (Report [1], Interview [2])

Abdallah Al-Bishi

[edit] Singapore

Darshan Singh 1959–2005

[edit] Sweden

Per Petter Christiansson Steineck 1864-1887
Albert Gustaf Dahlman 1885-1920

[edit] United Kingdom

Jack Ketch to 1686
Paskah Rose 1686
William Calcraft 1829-1874
William Marwood 1874–1883
James Berry 1884–1892
John Ellis 1901–1924
Henry Pierrepoint 1901–1910
Thomas Pierrepoint 1909–1946
Albert Pierrepoint 1932–1956
Steve Wade 1941–1955
Harry Allen 1941–1964
Syd Dernley 1949–1954
Robert Leslie Stewart 1950–1964


[edit] United States

John C. Woods 1903-1950. Hangman for the Third Army in WWII. He was one of the hangman who executed Nazi war criminals.

[edit] New York

Edwin Davis 1891–?
John Hulbert 1913–1926
Robert Elliott 1926–1939
Joseph Francel 1939–1953
Dow Hover 1953–1963

[edit] South Carolina

Sam Cannon

[edit] 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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