Atahualpa

Last Sapa Inca to rule an independent empire, and the protagonist of the most famous capture in the history of the Americas. Fresh from defeating his half-brother Huáscar in civil war, he met Francisco Pizarro and 168 Spaniards at Cajamarca on 16 November 1532; within hours he was a prisoner. He filled a room with gold for his ransom; when the ransom was paid the Spanish executed him anyway, by garrote, on 26 July 1533.