| ZIA | He had Bhutto executed in 1979 |
| BENAZIR | Murdered former Pakistani Prime Minister who was voted by Forbes Magazine in 2007 as one of the 100 most powerful women in politics, ... Bhutto |
| ALI | Pakistan's PM in the '70s: Zulfikar ___ Bhutto |
| KARACHI | In which city was former prime minister Benazir Bhutto born? (7) |
| ROUEN | City on the Seine river in NW France in which Joan of Arc was tried and executed in 1431 (5) |
| SADDAMHUSSEIN | Iraqi leader captured by US forces in 2003 and executed in Iraq in 2006 (6,7) |
| ADOLFEICHMANN | Nazi Germany official executed in Israel in 1962 (5,8) |
| EDITHCAVELL | British nurse, executed in Brussels in 1915 |
| GUEVARA | Argentine revolutionary executed in Bolivia in 1967 (7) |
| DICKTURPIN | English highwayman executed in York for horse theft in 1739 |
| MELLOWS | Named in honour of a Republican leader executed in the Civil War, which is the oldest of Dublin's br |
| FOTHERINGHAY | ___ Castle, fortress in Northamptonshire where Mary, Queen of Scots was executed in 1587 (12) |
| NEY | One of Napoleon's marshals, who fought at Waterloo. He was executed in December 1815 (3) |
| GUYFAWKES | York-born conspirator executed in 1606 for his role in the Gunpowder Plot (3,6) |
| ELLIS | Ruth ?, last woman to be executed in Britain portrayed by Miranda Richardson in 1985 biopic Dance with a Stranger |
| MATAHARI | What was the nickname of the Dutch dancer and secret agent executed in France in 1917? (4,4) |
| CALICOJACK | English pirate captain born John Rackham executed in Port Royal, Jamaica, in 1720 |
| LAUD | William ___, archbishop of Canterbury impeached by the Long Parliament in 1640 and executed in 1645 |
| MARIEANTOINETTE | Archduchess of Austria who became Queen of France in 1774, executed in 1793 during the French Revolution (5,10) |
| SACCO | Anarchist executed in 1927 |
