In Sweden’s view, the death penalty is an inhuman, cruel and irreversible punishment that has no place in a modern legal system, and its abolition is a prioritised task for the Government in efforts to promote and increase respect for human rights.
In a follow-up report on the recommendations to States, the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment stated that certain forms of treatment reserved to relatives in capital cases, such as refusing them the opportunity to bid farewell to the condemned, failing to notify them of the date of the execution and not disclosing the place of burial afterwards, are cruel and inhuman.