 List of people legally executed in Australia

Before the arrival of Europeans, death sentences were carried out in Australia under Aboriginal customary law, either directly or through sorcery.The first executions under European law occurred on 2 October 1629 on Long Island in the Houtman Abrolhos of Western Australia, where seven crew members of the Dutch East India Company ship "Batavia" were hanged for mutiny and the subsequent massacre of 125 passengers and crew.