Many assassins have been killed in the act , such as Rigoberto López Pérez , who shot Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza García in 1956 . Others were prosecuted for the killing : Antonio de la Maza and his conspirators were executed after their shooting of Rafael Trujillo , dictator of the Dominican Republic in 1961 , as was Kim Jaegyu , who shot South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee in 1979 . Five of the members of Young Bosnia who were involved with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo were sentenced to death by hanging , while eleven were sentenced to various years in prison , including Gavrilo Princip who fired the fatal shot . Khalid Islambouli was one of three members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad executed for the assassination of Anwar Sadat , the autocratic President of Egypt in 1981 . Even both Hipparchus 's assassins were themselves killed , Harmodius on the spot and Aristogeiton after being tortured , and the major conspirators in the plot to kill Caesar were likewise killed or forced to commit suicide
major conspirators
Assassination of Julius Caesar
Tyrannicide