Lists of executed people for religious offenses

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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

NameDateCrimeMethod
Sahibzada Abdul Latif 14 July 1903ApostasyStoning

Austria

NameDateCrimeMethod
Franz Wunderlich [1] 1688DesecrationBeheading
Maria Anna Rossenberger (19) [1] 1697DesecrationBeheading
Anna Rosina [1] 1702DesecrationBeheading
Maria Francisca Rosenburgerin (19) [1] 12 May 1705DesecrationBeheading
Maria Catherina N. (24) [1] 17 February 1707DesecrationBeheading
Elisabeth Stainin (23) [1] 16 March 1708DesecrationBeheading
Hans Georg Fritsch (47) [1] June 1709BlasphemyBeheading
Elizabeth N. (31) [1] 10 December 1709DesecrationBeheading
Maria Anna Kaufeuthner (28) [1] 1710DesecrationBeheading
Johann Posch (19) [1] 7 June 1712DesecrationBeheading
Anna Catherina Köpferin (18) [1] 12 July 1712DesecrationBeheading
Clara Dorothea Jancovitschin (23) [1] 30 August 1712DesecrationBeheading
Maria Susanna Grallin (19) [1] 27 September 1712DesecrationBeheading
Maria Magdalena Zechirlin (20) [1]
Maria Elisabeth N. (20) [1] 17 November 1712DesecrationBeheading
Benigna Rosina Weninger (17) [1] 23 November 1712DesecrationBeheading
Maria Magdalena N. (18) [1] 8 February 1713DesecrationBeheading
Stefan Maurer (16) [1] 9 August 1713DesecrationBeheading
Unnamed girl (15) [1] 31 August 1713DesecrationBeheading
Magdalena N. (19) [1] 20 October 1713DesecrationBeheading
Unnamed woman (26) [1] 2 March 1714DesecrationBeheading
Unnamed woman (20) [1] 24 March 1714DesecrationBeheading
Unnamed woman (19) [1] 8 August 1714DesecrationBeheading
Andreas Mühlbacher (17) [1] 27 March 1715DesecrationBeheading
Maria Anna Wälnerin (22) [1] 3 April 1715DesecrationBeheading
Adam Hirschbeck (15) [1] 18 June 1715DesecrationBeheading
Andreas Frisch (16) [1] 13 December 1715BlasphemyBeheading
Anna Margaretha N. (26) [1] 25 October 1716DesecrationBeheading
Anna Maria Nitzlin [1] November 1718DesecrationBeheading
Unnamed woman11 June 1720DesecrationBeheading

Czech Republic

NameDateCrimeMethod
Jan Olivetsky 20 September 1546BlasphemyBeaheading [2]

France

NameDateCrimeMethod
Jean-François de la Barre 1 July 1766Impiety and desecrationBeaheading

Iran

NameDateCrimeMethod
Hossein Soodmand [3] 3 December 1990ApostasyHanging
Bahman Samandari [4] 18 March 1992ApostasyUnknown
Ruhollah Rohani [5] 21 July 1998ApostasyUnknown
Seyed Ali Gharabat [3] 26 January 2011ApostasyHanging
Mohsen Amiraslani 24 September 2014BlasphemyHanging
Yousef Mehrdad 8 May 2023BlasphemyHanging
Sadrollah Fazeli Zare

Italy

NameDateCrimeMethod
Antonio Rinaldeschi 1501Desecration
Solomon Molcho 13 December 1532ApostasyBurning at stake
Francesco Calcagno 23 December 1550Blasphemy and homosexuality
Giordano Bruno 17 February 1600HeresyBurning at stake

Netherlands

NameDateCrimeMethod
Anna Utenhoven 17 July 1597HeresyBurned at stake

Ottoman Empire

NameDateCrimeMethodNotes
Unknown Armenian1843ApostasyBeaheadingAccepted Islam, but later returned to Christianity. [6]
Unknown man1852ApostasyBeaheadingConverted from Islam to Christianity, executed in Aleppo. [7]
Unknown man1853ApostasyBeaheadingConverted from Islam to Christianity, executed in Adrianople.
Batto Sfez Affair 1857BlasphemyBeaheading

Poland

NameDateCrimeMethod
Mikołaj Grunberg 25 June 1453HeresyBurning at stake
Adam from Radziejów [8] Late September 1499HeresyBurning at stake
Katarzyna Weiglowa 19 April 1539ApostasyBurning at stake
Iwan Tyszkiewicz 1611BlasphemyBurning at stake
Franco de Franco 30 June 1611BlasphemyQuartering
Kazimierz Łyszczyński 30 March 1689AtheismBurning at stake

Portugal

NameDateCrimeMethod
Ana Rodrigues (settler) 1593JudaismBurning at stake
Isaac de Castro Tartas 15 December 1647JudaismBurning at stake
Gabriel Malagrida 21 September 1671HeresyStrangulation
António José da Silva 18 October 1739JudaismStrangulation

Spain

Muslim Spain

NameDateCrimeMethod
Perfectus 18 April 850BlasphemyBeheading
Sisenandus of Beja 16 July 851BlasphemyBeheading

Christian Spain

NameDateCrimeMethod
Miguel de Almazán February 1486JudaismBurning at stake
Hernando Alonso 17 October 1528JudaismBurning at stake
María de Bohórquez 1559HeresyBurning at stake
Francisca Nuñez de Carabajal 8 December 1569ApostasyBurning at stake
Luis de Carvajal the Younger 8 December 1596JudaismGarrote
Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte 14 April 1649JudaismBurning at stake
Maria Barbara Carillo 18 May 1721JudaismBurning at stake
Cayetano Ripoll 26 July 1826HeresyBurning at stake

Somalia

NameDateCrimeMethod
Abdirahman Ahmed 15 January 2009Apostasy
Mohamud Mursal Muse [9] 2015Blasphemy
Hassan Tohow Fidow2021BlasphemyFiring squad [9]

Sweden

NameDateCrimeMethod
Botulf Botulfsson April 1311HeresyBurned at stake
Ragvald Odenskarl 27 October 1484PaganismBurned at stake
Eric Clauesson 1492PaganismBurned at stake
82 people 7–9 November 1520HeresyBeheaded
Lars Nilsson 1693PaganismBurned at stake

Other countries

NameDateJurisdictionModern countryCrimeMethod
Socrates 399 BC Classical Athens Flag of Greece.svg Greece ImpietyPoison
al-Hallaj 26 March 922 Abbasid Caliphate Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq HeresyBeheading
Thomas of Tolentino 8 April 1321 Delhi Sultanate Flag of India.svg India BlasphemyBeheading
Adam Duff O'Toole 11 April 1328Flag of England.svg Kingdom of England Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland HeresyBurning at stake
Jan Hus 6 July 1415 Holy Roman Empire Flag of Germany.svg Germany HeresyBurning at stake
Hellen Stirk 27 January 1544 Kingdom of Scotland Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Impiety
Bartholomew Legate 18 March 1612Flag of England.svg Kingdom of England Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom HeresyBurning at stake
Thomas Aikenhead 8 January 1697Flag of Scotland (1542-2003, navy blue).svg Kingdom of Scotland Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom BlasphemyBurning at stake
Mahmoud Mohammed Taha 18 January 1985Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan Apostasy and blasphemyBeheading
Sadeq Mallallah 3 September 1992Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Apostasy and blasphemyBeheading

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