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The Bijzonder Gerechtshof (Dutch for "Special Court of Justice") was a special court that was established in the Netherlands to try defendants accused having committed high treason, treason and war crimes immediately after the country’s liberation during the Second World War. There were 14,000 such cases, and 145 of them led to sentence of death. Only 42 of those cases actually led to an execution by a firing squad. They were the last instances of capital punishment in the Netherlands.
A few people who were famously sentenced to death and actually executed were Max Blokzijl, Anton Mussert and Ans van Dijk (the only woman to be executed).