Giovanni Battista Bugatti

Giovanni Battista Bugatti
Bugatti (left) offering snuff to a condemned prisoner before killing him (19th-century image).
Born(1779-03-06)6 March 1779
Senigallia, Papal States
Died18 June 1869(1869-06-18) (aged 90)
Senigallia, Papal States
Term22 March 1796 – 17 August 1864
(68 years, 148 days)

Giovanni Battista Bugatti (6 March 1779 – 18 June 1869) was the official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 to 1865, during which he carried out 516 executions under six popes and the French government before being succeeded by his assistant Vincenzo Balducci. The list of people he executed ranged from thieves to assassins using methods such as beating, beheading, or hanging.

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