| 41 | Gaius Caligula | “I am still alive!” |
| 258 | Saint Lawrence | “Turn me. I am being roasted on one side.” |
| 1793 | Louis XVI | “I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge.” |
| 1880 | Ned Kelly | “Ah well, I suppose it had to come to this. Such is life.” |
| 1902 | Lieutenant Henry H. Morant | “Shoot straight, you bastards! Don’t make a mess of it!” |
| 1945 | Benito Mussolini | “Shoot me in the chest.” |
| 1961 | James French | “How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? French fries.” |
| 1967 | Ernesto “Che” Guevara | “I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.” |
