Dates For Abolishment of The Death Penalty
- Capital punishment was abolished for all crimes committed in peacetime on June 30, 1921.
- Capital punishment was abolished for all crimes, including those committed in time of war, on January 1, 1976.
The clause that prohibits the death penalty has been a part of the Constitution since 1975. Sweden is a state party to the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR (ratified in 1990), Protocol No. 6 to ECHR (1984), and Protocol No. 13 to ECHR (2003).
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.
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