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20th-century executions for treason

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Roger Casement
Irish diplomat, activist, nationalist and poet (1864–1916)
Dragutin Dimitrijević
Serbian military commander (1876–1917)
Hannah Szenes
Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II
Alphonse Massamba-Débat
Congolese politician (1921-1977)
Pál Maléter
Hungarian soldier, Minister of Defence (1917-1958)
Viktor Kingissepp
Estonian communist revolutionary (1888-1922)
Willi Graf
German military physician and resistance fighter, "White Rose" member (1918–1943)
Arnaldo Ochoa
Cuban general (1930-1989)
Shūsui Kōtoku
Japanese anarchist (1871–1911)
Ikki Kita
Japanese philosopher and right-wing activist
Sheikh Said
Sheikh known for the Sheikh Said Rebellion (1865–1925)
Cavid Bey
Turkish economist and statesperson (1875–1926)
Kanno Sugako
Japanese journalist (1881–1911)
Hotsumi Ozaki
Japanese journalist, communist and Soviet spy (1901-1944)
Seyit Rıza
Zaza tribal chief
Pierre Mulele
Democratic Republic of the Congo politician (1929-1968)
Anastasios Papoulas
Greek general
Georgios Hatzianestis
Greek general (1863-1922)
Yun Yat
Cambodian politician (1934-1997)
Doktor Nâzım
Turkish statesperson (1870–1926)
Lee Bong-chang
Korean independence activist (1900–1932) who attempted to assassinate the Japanese emperor
Nazario Sauro
Italian naval hero (1880–1916)
Meir Tobianski
Israeli, wrongly executed for treason 1948, posthumously rehabilitated 1949 (1904–1948)
Daisuke Nanba
Japanese assassin (1899–1924)
Abu Taher
Bangladeshi military officer (1938–1976)
Sándor Szűcs
Hungarian association football player (1921–1951)
Uchiyama Gudō
Buddhist priest activist executed in the High Treason Incident
Buka Suka Dimka
Nigerian military personnel
Lev Zadov
Ukrainian intelligence officer (1893–1938)
Wilfred Hawker
Surinamese rebel
Asaichi Isobe
Imperial Japanese Army officer
Rüştü Paşa
Turkish general and statesperson (1872–1926)
Hafız Mehmed Bey
Turkish statesperson (1874–1926)
Ousmane Baldé
Guinean politician