This is a list of people who died as a result of hanging, including suicides and judicial, extrajudicial, or summary executions. These deaths are notable due to history or due to media exposure.
Tomohiro Katō, a Japanese mass killer who received the death penalty for committing the 2008 Akihabara massacre (26 July 2022)
Nazeri Lajim, Singaporean drug trafficker and former drug addict hanged for heroin trafficking (22 July 2022)
Norasharee Gous (a Singaporean) and Kalwant Singh Jogindar Singh (a Malaysian), two drug traffickers hanged in Singapore for heroin trafficking. Norasharee Gous was his boss and accomplice (7 July 2022)
Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, a Malaysian drug trafficker who was executed in Singapore despite his alleged intellectual disability and the resulting international outcry (27 April 2022)
Wei Wei, a Japan-based Chinese student and one of the three perpetrators of the 2003 Fukuoka family murder case. One of his two accomplices was sentenced to life imprisonment in China while another was executed by the Chinese courts (26 December 2019)
Chia Kee Chen, a Singaporean businessman who murdered his wife's lover Dexmon Chua Yizhi. He was originally sentenced to life imprisonment before the sentence was commuted to the death penalty by the Court of Appeal. (after 27 July 2018)
Rasheed Muhammad and Ramzan Rizwan, the two Pakistani tissue paper sellers who killed and dismembered their Pakistani roommate (c. 2018)
Masakatsu Nishikawa, a Japanese serial killer responsible for five murders of bar hostesses (13 July 2017)
Ahmad Najib bin Aris, Malaysian who was sentenced to death in 2005 for abducting, murdering and raping 32-year-old Canny Ong in 2003, for which the case made shocking headlines in Malaysia (23 September 2016)
Kho Jabing, Malaysian who was responsible for the robbery and murder of Chinese national and construction worker Cao Ruyin in Singapore in 2008. (20 May 2016)
Tsukasa Kanda, a Japanese criminal and one of the three culprits of the murder of Rie Isogai. One of his accomplices was sentenced to life imprisonment while another was sentenced to death for an unrelated murder case (25 June 2015)
Muhammad Kadar, Singaporean odd-job labourer who killed an elderly housewife by inflicting 110 knife wounds on the victim during a robbery in 2005 (17 April 2015)
Wang Zhijian, Chinese convicted murderer who killed three women in a rental HDB flat in Yishun, Singapore. (after 28 November 2014)
Nakamuthu Balakrishnan, a Singaporean sentenced to death for murdering a lorry driver during a S$1.3 million mobile phone heist (8 July 2011)
Zahra Bahrami, Dutch-Iranian dual citizen, for narcotics trafficking (29 January 2011)
Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, military commander, cousin of Saddam Hussein, and war criminal (25 January 2010)
Tan Chor Jin, a former fugitive and gangster who was responsible for the fatal shooting of nightclub owner Lim Hock Soon (9 January 2009)
Abdul Malik bin Usman, Kamal bin Kupli and Hamir Hasim, the three Malaysians found guilty of murdering a Myanmar worker during a robbery and sentenced to hang (c. 2008)
Mohammed Ali bin Johari, Singaporean Malay and notorious convicted murderer who raped and killed his stepdaughter Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi, who was nicknamed "Nonoi", for which the crime made headlines in Singapore (19 December 2008)
Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer who killed four young girls between August 1988 and June 1989 before his arrest in July 1989. He was later convicted of murder and sentenced to death in April 1997, and he subsequently spent the final 11 years and 2 months of his life on death row before his execution (17 June 2008)
Leong Siew Chor, a Singaporean who murdered his lover and dismembered her body into seven pieces (30 November 2007)
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, half brother of Saddam Hussein, leader of the Mukhabarat, decapitated due to the wrong measurements of the rope (15 January 2007)
Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq and war criminal (30 December 2006)
Tony Koh Zhan Quan and Lim Poh Lye, who were both found guilty of murdering a scrap car dealer Bock Tuan Thong and sentenced to be executed (28 April 2006)
Khor Kok Soon, one of Singapore's top ten fugitives who was caught in 2003 for the 1984 Shenton Way shooting and murder of a lorry driver (c. 2006)
Lim Thian Lai, a Singaporean gunman who shot and murdered a businessman in 1997, and sentenced to death in 2005 (c. 2006)
Yang Ning, a Japan-based Chinese student and one of the three perpetrators of the 2003 Fukuoka family murder case. One of his two accomplices was sentenced to life imprisonment in China while another was executed by the Japanese courts (12 July 2005)
Harith Gary Lee, a Singaporean put to death by hanging for killing his girlfriend (22 April 2005)
Zailani Ahmad, a technician found guilty of killing a caretaker and sentenced to death by hanging (c. 2005)
Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer (14 September 2004)
Dhananjoy Chatterjee, Indian convicted of rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl (14 August 2004)
Tan Chee Wee, a Malaysian hanged for the rape-murder of a Thai housewife in Singapore (11 June 2004)
Soosainathan Dass Saminathan, a Singaporean hanged for the rape and murder of a six-month-old baby girl (21 May 2004)
Jin Yugang, a Chinese cleaner found guilty of murdering a compatriot in Singapore (19 March 2004)
Yen May Woen, Singaporean hairdresser who was convicted of trafficking 30.16g of diamorphine (19 March 2004)
Arun Prakash Vaithilingam, an Indian ship electrician who was found guilty of murdering his colleague inside their rented flat in Marsiling, Singapore, and sentenced to death (3 October 2003)
Vignes Mourthi and Moorthy Angappan, the two Malaysian drug traffickers charged with importing 27.65 grams of diamorphine (26 September 2003)
Seethong Phichet, Thongthot Yordsa-Art and Dornchinnamat Yingyos, the three Thai workers sentenced to death for killing another Thai worker and drug lord (21 February 2003)
Kanesan Ratnam, a Singaporean who was found guilty of murdering a fellow prisoner at Queenstown Remand Prison and sentenced to death (10 January 2003)
Anthony Ler, full name Anthony Ler Wee Teang, Singaporean graphic designer who hired and manipulated a 15-year-old male minor to murder his 30-year-old wife Annie Leong Wai Mun (or Annie Leong), who was in the midst of divorcing him. Ler was sentenced to death while his 15-year-old accomplice was spared the death sentence and instead sentenced to indefinite detention at the President's Pleasure (13 December 2002)
Khwan-On Natthaphon, a Thai carpenter found guilty of murdering a taxi driver and sentenced to death by hanging (27 September 2002)
Mona Fandey, Malaysian pop singer and convicted killer who was sentenced to death for murdering Malaysian politician Mazlan bin Idris. Her husband Mohamad Nor Affandi bin Abdul Rahman and her assistant Juraimi bin Hassan were also sentenced to death and executed on the same day as her (2 November 2001)
Tay Chin Wah, Singaporean gunman and taxi driver who was found guilty of shooting at a moneylender (26 October 2001)
Julaiha Begum, a Singaporean Indian executed for soliciting the murder of her husband T. Maniam, a retired policeman. Her accomplices Loganatha Venkatesan and Chandran Rajagopal were similarly executed. (16 February 2001)
Chan Chim Yee, a Singaporean cleaner and ex-seaman who murdered his girlfriend and sentenced to hang (15 September 2000)
Lau Lee Peng, a Singaporean fishmonger who committed the brutal robbery and murder of his long-time friend and fruit stall helper Lily Tan Eng Yan at her Tampines flat (1 September 2000)
S. Nagarajan Kuppusamy, a Singaporean lorry driver found guilty of murdering a prison warden (23 July 1999)
Too Yin Sheong, a Malaysian who was one of the three robbers committing the murder of Lee Kok Cheong (30 April 1999)
Jonaris Badlishah, a Malaysian and distant nephew of the then Sultan of Kedah who murdered a beautician after he robbed her of her Rolex watch (February 1999)
Lim Chin Chong, a Malaysian male prostitute who, at age 18, murdered his male homosexual employer Philip Low Cheng Quee, who operated a male brothel (23 October 1998)
Jimmy Chua Hwa Soon, a former army sergeant of the Singapore Armed Forces who murdered his sister-in-law Neo Lam Lye and also heavily slashed his four-year-old nephew (February 1998)
Lim Chwee Soon, a Singaporean gunman and armed robber executed for discharging a firearm seven times during a goldsmith robbery (25 July 1997)
Khampun Sriyotha and Samlee Prathumtree, the two Thai workers sentenced to hang for murdering their fellow countryman Somwang Yapapha during a sledgehammer attack (4 July 1997)
Pracha Thanomnin, an illegal Thai worker found guilty for murdering a taxi driver during a robbery bid (10 January 1997)
Jang Hye-gyung, mother of North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk who was executed by hanging for attempting to escape Camp 14, a high-security North Korean concentration camp (29 November 1996)
Zainal Abidin Abdul Malik, Singaporean hotel worker who used an axe to brutally hacked a police officer to death (30 August 1996)
Teo Kim Hong, Singaporean prostitute who murdered her Malaysian friend and colleague Ching Bee Ing (30 August 1996)
Thongbai Naklangdon, a Thai welder found guilty of murdering his friend and co-worker Suk Malasri, and sentenced to hang (30 August 1996)
John Martin Scripps, a British spree killer executed in Singapore for killing a South African tourist (19 April 1996)
Rozman Jusoh and Razali Mat Zin, Malaysian odd-job labourers hanged in Singapore for marijuana trafficking (12 April 1996)
Panya Marmontree, Prawit Yaowabutr, Manit Wangjaisuk, Panya Amphawa, and Prasong Bunsom, the five gang robbers convicted and hanged for killing three foreign construction workers in Singapore (15 March 1996)
Indra Wijaya Ibrahim, a Singaporean drug addict who robbed and murdered a 80-year-old woman inside a lift at Bedok North (29 September 1995)
S. S. Asokan and Maniam Rathinswamy, two Singaporean security guards found guilty for murdering loan shark Tan Heng Hong and sentenced to death (8 September 1995)
Jamaludin Ibrahim, a Singaporean repairman convicted of killing his two neighbours during a robbery (28 July 1995)
Ng Theng Shuang, Malaysian armed robber who shot a Cisco officer and two other bystanders during a failed robbery attempt (14 July 1995)
Sagar Suppiah Retnam, a Singaporean labourer and former gang leader of Ang Soon Tong who murdered a bystander during a gang clash at Marsiling, and sentenced to hang. (7 July 1995)
Anbuarsu Joseph, a Singaporean scaffolder and gang leader of Gi Leng Kiat who was found guilty of murdering a patron of a coffee shop at Chander Road, and sentenced to death. (7 July 1995)
Mohamad Ashiek Salleh and Junalis Lumat, two unemployed Singaporeans found guilty for robbing and killing two taxi drivers and sentenced to death (16 June 1995)
Phua Soy Boon, an unemployed Singaporean found guilty for killing a moneylender and sentenced to death (16 June 1995)
Jahabar Bagurudeen, an Indian businessman convicted of murdering a moneychanger (2 June 1995)
Oh Laye Koh, a Singaporean school bus driver who was found guilty of murdering a 17-year-old Malaysian schoolgirl named Liang Shan Shan in 1989. Oh was also alleged to have killed a 18-year-old lounge waitress Norhayah Mohamed Ali in 1982. (19 May 1995)
Kumar Nadison, Jabar Kadermastan and Chandran Gangatharan, the three Malaysians found guilty of murdering an ice factory worker Samynathan Pawathai in 1985, and therefore executed by hanging (28 April 1995)
Auto Shankar, Indian serial killer (27 April 1995)
Poon Yuen Chung, a Hong Kong tourist executed in Singapore for trafficking 9.5 kg of heroin (21 April 1995)
Tong Ching Man and her boyfriend Lam Cheuk Wang, two Hong Kong citizens executed in Singapore for trafficking a total of 3 kg of heroin (21 April 1995)
Krishnan Varadan, a Malaysian who robbed and killed an elderly man in 1984, and also the longest-serving death row prisoner in Singapore at the time he was executed (15 April 1994)
Yeo Watt Song, a Singaporean illegal hawker sentenced to death for killing his childhood friend in 1989 (March 1994)
Cheuk Mei Mei and Tse Po Chung, both Hong Kong citizens executed in Singapore for drug trafficking (5 March 1994)
Mazlan Maidun, a Singaporean sentenced to death for killing a lorry driver in 1988 (21 January 1994)
Ng Soo Hin, a Singaporean carpenter sentenced to death for killing his girlfriend Foo Chin Chin and another female friend Ng Lee Kheng (after 4 December 1993)
Maksa Tohaiee, a Singaporean cleaner who was merely 18 years old when he murdered an Italian housewife Clementina Curci during a burglary attempt. He was sentenced to death for murder (26 November 1993)
Raymond Ko Mun Cheung and An Man Keny Chiu Sum Hing, two labourers from Hong Kong who were executed for drug trafficking in Singapore (30 July 1993)
Mohamed Mahmuduzzaman Khan and Mohamed Bachu Miah, two Bangladeshi immigrants found guilty of murdering a fellow immigrant from Bangladesh, and sentenced to death by hanging (23 July 1993)
Westley Allan Dodd, American serial killer and child molester (5 January 1993)
Ithinin Kamari, a Singaporean who was the perpetrator of the 1989 Tanglin Halt double murders. Ithinin was sentenced to hang for the double murder three years later (c. 1993)
Chia Chee Yeen, a National Serviceman charged with the murder of his army superior and sentenced to death (c. 1993)
Tan Bee Hock, a Singaporean charged with murdering a games stall owner and sentenced to death in 1993 (c. 1993)
Loh Yoon Seong, a Malaysian who murdered an Indonesian fish trader by stabbing and sentenced to death in 1990 (c. 1993)
Vasavan Sathiadew, who, together with three hired Thai killers, strangled his adoptive brother Frankie Tan to death. He and two of the Thais was sentenced to death for murder. (23 October 1992)
Phan Khenapim, one of the three Thai killers who helped Vasavan Sathiadew to kill Frankie Tan. (23 October 1992)
Wan Pathong, one of the three Thai killers who helped Vasavan Sathiadew to kill Frankie Tan. (23 October 1992)
Lim Joo Yin, a Singaporean contractor who was caught importing 1.37 kg of heroin (3 April 1992)
Ronald Tan Chong Ngee, an unemployed Singaporean who was caught importing 1.37 kg of heroin (3 April 1992)
Lim Beng Hai, a Singaprorean drug addict convicted of killing three people during a robbery (5 October 1990)
Teo Boon Ann, a Singaporean temple medium convicted of killing an elderly woman (20 April 1990)
Lau Chi Sing, the first Hong Kong national to be given the death penalty in Singapore for drug trafficking (17 November 1989)
Sek Kim Wah, former recruit of the Singapore Armed Forces and convicted armed robber and killer who robbed and murdered five people in two separate cases and was thus sentenced to death (9 December 1988)
Lim Kok Yew, a fugitive and robber who used a firearm while committing the 1979 Tiong Bahru bus hijacking case (8 June 1984)
Yeo Ching Boon, Ong Hwee Kuan and Ong Chin Hock, the three kidnappers and robbers who killed taxi driver Chew Theng Hin and police conscript Lee Kim Lai in two separate cases (24 February 1984)
Haw Tua Tau, a Singaporean hawker sentenced to hang for murdering two hawkers at Margaret Drive Hawker Centre (1982)
Kalidass Sinnathamby Narayanasamy, a Singaporean army lance corporal sentenced to hang for molesting and killing his seven-year-old niece Usharani Ganaison (after 17 May 1982)
Low Hong Eng (a Singaporean seamstress) and Tan Ah Tee (a Malaysian illegal taxi driver), both executed for drug trafficking. Low was the first female to be hanged in Singapore for drug trafficking since 1975 (9 October 1981)
Botak Chin, real name Wong Swee Chin, Malaysian convicted armed robber who was sentenced to hang for the capital crime of possessing a firearm in Malaysia (11 June 1981)
Quek Kee Siong, Singaporean labourer sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a ten-year-old girl (after 19 November 1980)
Talib Haji Hamzah, a Malaysian soto seller who was found guilty and hanged for being an accomplice of a firearm robbery under the Arms Offences Act (28 January 1977)
Nadarajah Govindasamy, Singaporean businessman who murdered the fiancé of his daughter (28 January 1977)
Sha Bakar Dawood, Singaporean seaman and armed robber, who was the first person to be executed under the Arms Offences Act of Singapore (3 September 1976)
Chow Kim Hoong, a Malaysian-born stateless person found guilty of the 1969 killing his brother's fiancée in Singapore (3 August 1973)
Osman bin Ali, a gardener convicted and hanged for killing a cook and an amah at a bungalow in Leedon Park (27 July 1973)
Sim Woh Kum, husband and accomplice of Mimi Wong, who murdered a Japanese woman in Singapore (27 July 1973)
Mimi Wong, the first female prisoner to be executed for murder in Singapore (27 July 1973)
Lee Chor Pet, Lim Kim Kwee and Ho Kee Fatt, the three kidnappers who abducted and killed Ong Beang Leck, the 19-year-old son of a millionaire (27 January 1973)
Liew Kim Siong and Kee Ah Tee, two Singaporean youths found guilty of murdering two Hongkongers at a factory during a robbery bid (c. 1972)
Sunny Ang, a law student and Prix driver who became the first to be executed for a case of murder without a body in Singapore (6 February 1967)
Ronald Ryan (murderer), the last person executed in Australia (3 February 1967)
Tan Kheng Ann, Chia Yeow Fatt, Cheong Wai Sang, Somasundram s/o Subramaniam, Lim Tee Kang, Somasundarajoo s/o Vengdasalam, Lim Kim Chuan, Khoo Geok San, Chan Wah, Hoe Hock Hai, Ponapalam s/o Govindasamy, Chew Seng Hoe, Chew Thiam Huat, Sim Hoe Seng, Ng Cheng Liong, Tan Yin Chwee, Sim Teck Beng and Cheng Poh Kheng, the eighteen rioters who were found guilty of armed rioting and murder of four prison officers at the island prison of Pulau Senang (29 October 1965)
Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer (14 October 1959)
Derek Bentley, English man hanged for aiding the murder of a police officer during an attempted robbery (28 January 1953)
Marguerite "Madame le Corbeau" Pitre, Canadian conspirator in the bombing of Canadian Pacific Flight 108, last woman executed in Canada (9 January 1953)
Sada Abe (1905–after 1971), Japanese geisha killed her lover through strangulation while he was sleeping, after having experimented with erotic asphyxiation, in 1936, proceeding to cut off his penis and testicles and carry them around with her in her kimono for three days.
Vaughn Bodé (1941–1975), American artist, died during autoerotic asphyxiation
Albert Dekker (1905–1968), American actor, found dead in his bathroom in with a noose around his neck, looped around the shower curtain rod.
Nigel Tetley (c. 1924–1972), British sailor who was the first person to circumnavigate the world solo in a trimaran; his body was found hanging from a tree, clothed in lingerie, considered by the pathologist to have been engaging in masochistic sexual activity.
Diane Herceg sued Hustler magazine in 1983, accusing it of causing the death of her 14-year-old son, who had experimented with autoerotic asphyxia after reading about it in that publication and whose nude body was found hanging by its neck in closet, while spread at his feet was a copy of Hustler opened to its article on "Orgasm of Death.".[9]
Stephen Milligan (1948–1994), British politician and Conservative MP for Eastleigh, died from autoerotic asphyxiation, wearing only stockings and suspenders.[10]
Kevin Gilbert (1966–1996), musician and songwriter, died of apparent autoerotic asphyxiation[11]
David Carradine (1936 – June 3, 2009), American actor died from accidental asphyxiation, according to medical examiner who performed a private autopsy.[12][13] His body was found hanging by a rope in a closet in his hotel room in Thailand,[14][15] and there was evidence of a recent orgasm;[16] two autopsies were conducted and concluded that his death was not suicide, and the Thai forensic pathologist who examined the body stated that his death may have been due to autoerotic asphyxiation.[17][18] Two of Carradine's ex-wives, Gail Jensen[19][20] and Marina Anderson,[21][22] stated publicly that his sexual interests included the practice of self-bondage.
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