People executed by Iraq by hanging

Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the United States-led invasion of Iraq. He previously served as the vice president from 1968 to 1979 and also as the prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. A leading member of the Ba'ath Party, he was a proponent of Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. The policies and ideologies he championed are collectively known as Saddamism, a right-wing variant of Ba'athism.

Iraqi politician and military commander (1941–2010)

Iraqi Shia cleric, philosopher, and the ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party (1935-1980)(55 yrs)

Iraqi politician (1938-2007)

Iraqi Mukhabarat leader (1951-2007)

Iraqi politician (1945-2007)

Iraqi military officer (1957-2012)

Iraqi educator and political activist (1937-1980)

Iraqi activist

Assyrian politician (1901-1949)

Iranian-born journalist & double spy

Iraqi writer

public hangings of 14 alleged Israeli spies in Iraq

Iraqi poet

Iraqi politician and poet (1924-1963)

Iraqi robber and serial killer