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Jacob Johan Anckarström was a Swedish military officer who assassinated Gustav III, king of Sweden. He was convicted and executed for regicide.

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Gustaf Banér was a Swedish noble, member of the Privy Council of Sweden.

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Erik Brahe, was a Swedish count. He was executed for treason as one of the conspirators participating in the failed coup d'etat of queen Louisa Ulrika, the Coup of 1756.

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Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock was a Swedish baron and Lieutenant General. He and Carl Emil Lewenhaupt were executed for negligence in the Russo-Swedish War, in the aftermath of the defeat at Villmanstrand.

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Metta Charlotta Fock, née Ridderbjelke, was a Swedish noble and sentenced murderer. She was executed for murdering her spouse, son and daughter in order to marry her lover.

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Georg Heinrich von Görtz, Baron of Schlitz, diplomat in Swedish service, was born in Holstein and educated at Jena.

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Murders and executions in Stockholm, Sweden have been documented since the 1280s, when King Magnus Ladulås ordered the execution of three magnates of the Privy Council, who had been accused of several "traitorous acts against the throne". The city's murders between the middle of the 15th century and the middle of the 17th century have been documented fairly well in the logs of the Stockholm District Court. Violence with a deadly outcome was most common during the Middle Ages, a trend which had more than halved by the beginning of the 1700s. The most common cases of manslaughter and murder usually involved fights between men where alcohol was involved.

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Holmger Knutsson was a Swedish nobleman and a claimant to the Swedish throne during the reign of King Eric XI of Sweden.

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Gustaf Jacob Horn af Rantzien (1706–1756) was a Swedish baron. He was executed for treason as one of the conspirators participating in the failed coup d'etat of queen Louisa Ulrika, the Coup of 1756.

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Jaakko Pentinpoika Ilkka was a wealthy Ostrobothnian landowner and leader of a 16th-century revolt by Finnish peasants against Swedish rule known as the Cudgel War.

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Charles Emil Lewenhaupt the Elder was a Swedish general.

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John Filip Nordlund was a Swedish mass murderer, the second to last person to be executed in Sweden and the last person to be executed through manual beheading in Sweden.

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The Torsåker witch trials took place in 1675 in Torsåker parish in Sweden and were the largest witch trials in Swedish history. In a single day 71 people were beheaded and then burned.