Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

Johan Alfred Andersson Ander was a convicted Swedish murderer and the last person to be executed in Sweden.

Capital punishment in Sweden was last used in 1910, though it remained a legal sentence for at least some crimes until 1973. It is now outlawed by the Swedish Constitution, which states that capital punishment, corporal punishment, and torture are strictly prohibited. At the time of the abolition of the death penalty in Sweden, the legal method of execution was beheading. It was one of the last states in Europe to abolish the death penalty.