The chapter presents new findings concerning the execution of burghers in the Stockholm Bloodbath. It argues that only men with assigned adm inistrative responsibilities in Stockholm were executed. Half of the m en were members of the town council and half represented the general b urgher community. In addition, there were often two men in the same of fice, for example as supervisors of one of the religious caring establ ishments in Stockholm, in which case only one was executed. This princ iple of selecting victims based on officeholding leads to the conclusi on that personal relationships, ethnicity, or political allegiance had little to no relevance in the selection of burghers to be executed, w hich contradicts the depiction of the event in previous scholarship. T he executions pose an empirical example of a collective punishment of a town by choosing a representative group of men held responsible for the government and administration of the town.