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Sweden is a state party to the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR (ratified in 1990 [2]), Protocol No. 6 (1984), and Protocol No. 13 (2003) to ECHR. [3] In the Riksdag of the Estates, a majority of the peasants worked for the abolition of the death penalty, for example when the new penalty code of 1864 was discussed. [4]
The 1900s saw the abolition of the death penalty in Sweden. At 8 a.m. on 23 November 1910, convicted robber and murderer Alfred Ander was executed by guillotine at Långholmen Prison. This was the last execution to take place in Swedish history, and the first and last time a guillotine was used.
In Sweden, the following homicide offenses exist: [1] Murder (Swedish: Mord) is defined as an intentional killing and is punishable with imprisonment between 10 and 18 years or life imprisonment. (3-1 § of the Penal Code) Manslaughter (Dråp) (roughly corresponds to voluntary manslaughter). It is defined as murder when it is less severe ...
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Death penalty for murder; instigating a minor's or a mentally ill's suicide; treason; terrorism; a second conviction for drug trafficking; aircraft hijacking; aggravated robbery; espionage; kidnapping; being a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit a capital offence; attempted murder by those sentenced to life imprisonment if the attempt ...
Sweden does not have the death penalty and opposes its use in all circumstances. The foreign ministry said it had now received confirmation that two more Swedes have been convicted in relation to ...
Sweden’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday it will summon the Iraqi chargé d’affaires in Stockholm to protest against death sentences received by Swedes in Iraq. Last month, Stockholm protested ...
Johan Alfred Andersson Ander (27 November 1873 – 23 November 1910) was a convicted Swedish murderer and the last person to be executed in Sweden.. The only person to be executed in Sweden following the instatement of the guillotine, he remains the only person executed by this means in Swedish history (before 1907, capital punishment was executed through manual beheading).