The chapter presents new findings concerning the execution of burghers in the Stockholm Bloodbath. It argues that only men with assigned administrative responsibilities in Stockholm were executed. Half of the men were members of the town council and half were part of the general burgher community. In addition, there were often two men in the same office, for example as supervisors of one of the religious caring establishments in Stockholm, in which case only one was executed. This principle of selecting victims based on officeholding leads to the conclusion that personal relationships, ethnicity, or political allegiance had little to no relevance in the selection of burgers to be executed, which contradicts the depiction of the event in previous scholarship. The executions pose an empirical example of a collective punishment of a town by choosing a representative group of men held responisble for the government and administration of the town.