5. Charles Taylor, Liberia
Total Death Toll: 250,000
Up next in our list of most evil elected presidents who killed the most people is Charles Taylor who served as President from 1997 to 2003, and partook in Both Liberian Civil Wars, one from 1989 t0 1996, another from 1999 to 2003. Having been trained as a guerrilla officer in Libya, Taylor returned to his country in ’89 with a lot of backup and started the First Liberian Civil War, by the end of which he was a world renowned warlord. This might have helped him win in the 1997 elections, where he got 75.3% of the votes. The second War was initiated by revolutionary dissidents and finalized with Taylor’s stepdown, when he handed the torch to Vice President Blah. Soon after, the USA issued a capture order; he escaped but was caught later on, and in 2012 he became the second Head of State ever convicted by an international tribunal (first one was Karl Dönitz, Hitler’s Vice, at the Nuremberg Trials).
