Sweden to abolish expiry date for murder
Published: 8 Oct 09 10:22 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22532/20091008/
Sweden's government has proposed abolishing the statute of limitations for crimes that can lead to life imprisonment. Under current laws, suspects for crimes that include murder, genocide and major acts of terrorism can not be prosecuted if 25 years have elapsed since the crime was committed.
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"I'm convinced that people would find it reprehensible if a murderer was to come along after 25 years and confess to a murder. No matter when the crime as committed, the perpetrator should be held to account," Centre Party justice spokesman Johan Linander told the newspaper.
Citing improvements in DNA technology, the government also wants evidence for crimes covered in the bill to be retained for 70 years, as opposed to the current 30 year limit.
With opposition justice experts also welcoming the proposal, the bill is expected to pass into law in mid-2010, a few months before the 25th anniversary of the still unsolved murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.
Palme was gunned down while walking home from the cinema in central Stockholm on the evening of February 28th, 1986.
Two years after the shooting, petty thief Christer Pettersson was arrested and convicted for Palme’s killing, but the case was later overturned on appeal.
No other suspect has ever been brought to trial in the case.
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You're nuts! You don't really beleive this. We are all grateful for OP's demise, not that he was murdered, but the he was taken out of the count. While the change in Swedish law is welcome, it should have nothing to do with this, misguided, west-hating, swedish mistake, whose errors Sweden is still suffering the ill effects from.
Your invective appears to have been fetched from various leftist organs, and you seem to have an axe to grind. Wonder what it is? Although I could guess. I'm not grateful for OP's assassination either like I said. Only that he is no longer around to spread his offensive venom. I am grateful that knee-jerk liberal Sweden has come to its senses and is set to abolish the statute of limitations for murder.
Lets hope they do the same for child molestation and other sex crimes against minors too.
I have no idea who committed the horrible murder of Mr. Palme (the mistaken identity possibility isn't at all implausible in this World were "Time and Chance happen to all men" either.....) but definitely on that crime there ought to be no statute of limitations.
But I imagine one day all of Sweden's laws will be brought up to date for the 21st century.