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Top 10 Well Deserved Executions
Here are ten of most well-deserved executions in world history. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that these leaders were cruel, terrible human beings who gave no thought to the people they hurt.
10. Timothy McVeigh
McVeigh committed one of the most disturbing acts of terrorism on U.S. soil in 1995. He detonated a truck full of explosives in front of a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 168 lives were taken, including over a dozen children who attended a daycare housed in the building. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in Indiana on June 11, 2001. The motive for his crime? He was seeking revenge for what the U.S. government did to Waco & Ruby Ridge.
9. Indira Gandhi
Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and then a fourth between 1980 and 1984. She was the first woman to hold such a position in India and was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first PM of independent India. She was assassinated in 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star. Operation Blue Star was an Indian military operation on 3–8 June 1984, ordered by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in order to establish control over the Harmandir Sahib Complex in Amritsar, Punjab and remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the complex buildings.
8. Maximillien Robbspiere
He is most famous for being the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. He was overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leader of the Committee of Public Safety of 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, by guillotine, of over 17,000 enemies of the revolution. In the aftermath of the coup, the Committee of Public Safety lost its authority, the prisons were emptied, and the French Revolution became much less radical. The Directory that followed saw a return to bourgeois values, corruption, and military failure. In 1799, the Directory was overthrown in a military coup led by Napoleon Bonaparte, who wielded dictatorial powers in France as first consul and, after 1804, as French emperor.
7. Benito Mussolini
Unlike Hitler’s death, nothing was mysterious about Mussolini’s final days. As the Allies pushed north, Mussolini tried to flee from Italy. He was captured and executed by communist partisans near Lake Como in April 1945. His body was hung upside down for all the public to see in Milan. Although the National Fascist Party was outlawed by the postwar Constitution of Italy, a number of successor neo-fascist parties emerged to carry on his legacy.
6. Ted Bundy
Bundy was an American serial killer as well as kidnapper and rapist who assaulted and murdered a number of women and girls in the 1970s and maybe even earlier. The total number of murders still remains unknown. Many of his victims saw him as handsome and charismatic, traits he exploited to win their trust. He also was known to perform ferocious acts of atrocities with the bodies after they died. 12 of the victims were decapitated. He was executed by electric chain in Florida on Januarry 24, 1989.
5. Ion Antonescu
Ion Antonescu was appointed prime minister with absolute powers on Sept. 4, 1940 in Romania. He established a military dictatorship and was supportive of the Nazi regime. His “National Legionary State” briefly brought the Iron Guard to power as his partner, but, after a period of Guardist revolutionary and criminal excesses, he suppressed the organization (1941). He at first secured widespread popular support for his domestic reform program and, as Germany’s ally, for his declaration of war against the U.S.S.R. (1941) in pursuit of recovering Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina. His administration also permitted a certain latitude to opposition critics, and some historians believe it may have been the least servile among the German satellite governments. His popular support went downhill eventually, however, as manpower losses mounted on the Russian front. His regime was finally toppled by a coup d’etat in August 1944 led by King Michael; Antonescu subsequently was sentenced to death by the Romanian communist people’s court and was executed as a war criminal in 1946.
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