Statistics on executions

[Derek Jackson]

This is a more general query but I suspect that folk using this forum might have answers.

Between 1789 and 1814 who executed more people Britain or France (including "ordinary decent criminals")

Is it true that the "White Terror" after the Bourbon restoration saw more executions than the "Red Terror" of the revolution?

[Raymann]

Its hard to say and I don't know if there are any records that can tell you exactly. The French revolution obviously left a few headless bodies but the British literally had a hundred different death penalty crimes. The British military was also famous for how many of its people it excuated and figures in the rest of the Empire were also large.

[wkwillis]

Depends on what you mean by execution. The Bourbons used to send people to the galleys for life (actually a few years at most). Does that count as an execution?