Sweden
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The country has been abolitionist since 1972 and the...
- News items in the archive
- 72
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Sweden is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 72 news items on Sweden, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- OCTOBER 2, 2001SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Sweden will have to negotiate with the USA on an exemption...
Sweden will have to negotiate with the USA on an exemption from the death penalty in the event of a suspected terrorist being extradited to the USA, Foreign Minister Anna Lindh said
- MAY 8, 2001SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Sweden abolished capital punishment in 1921
Sweden abolished capital punishment in 1921
- APRIL 25, 2001SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Sweden was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Sweden was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- APRIL 3, 2001SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Swedish Ambassador Johan Molander speaking at the 57th...
Swedish Ambassador Johan Molander speaking at the 57th session of the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights, set out the European Union's stance on the violation of fundamental freedoms perpetrated in some fifty countries and in particular he condemn
- JANUARY 1, 2001SwedenDEATH PENALTY
The country has been abolitionist since 1972 and the...
The country has been abolitionist since 1972 and the last execution was conducted in 1910
- NOVEMBER 2, 2000SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Sweden submitted a draft resolution to a U
Sweden submitted a draft resolution to a U
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2000SwedenDEATH PENALTY
The Swedish and French ambassadors to the United States...
The Swedish and French ambassadors to the United States and Gunter Burhoudt, the European Commission's representative in Washington, asked Virginia Governor James Gilmore for a stay of execution for Derek Rocco Barnabei
- APRIL 26, 2000SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Sweden cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty...
Sweden cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh met with Turkish...
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh met with Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit and Foreign Minister Ismail Cem during a visit to Ankara
- JANUARY 1, 2000SwedenDEATH PENALTY
The country has been abolitionist since 1972 and the...
The country has been abolitionist since 1972 and the last execution was conducted in 1910
- APRIL 28, 1999SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Sweden was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Sweden was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- JANUARY 1, 1999SwedenDEATH PENALTY
The country has been abolitionist since 1972 and the...
The country has been abolitionist since 1972 and the last execution was conducted in 1910