Verdict and Execution
Lars was sentenced for his "long lived and stubborn pagan superstition" to be executed according to the law of the church after the words of the second book of Moses, chapter 22 and 5 book of Moses chapter 13 in the bible, and the secular law of 1527. The sentence was confirmed by the royal court in 26 April 1692.
One year later, in 1693, Lars was made to mount a stake in Arjeplog with his drum and the icons of his gods and was burned to death. He was said to have climbed up the stake "with a strange curriage". According to some sources, he was decapitated before he was burned, which was the normal way to conduct an execution of burning in Sweden.
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