How many Nuremberg defendante were put to death?

At the Nuremberg Trials, 12 of the 24 defendants were sentenced to death. These sentences were carried out on October 16, 1946, with some notable figures among the executed, including Hermann Göring and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Three other defendants sentenced to death committed suicide before their executions, bringing the total number of individuals who died as a result of the trials to 15.