Career
He was the last executioner to carry out capital punishment in Sweden. After a military career (he was stationed with Västmanlands regiment and reached the rank of corporal), Dahlman was selected for the position of executioner for the capital Stockholm from 200 applicants on 5 August 1885. From 1887 he was the sole executioner in the country, after Per Petter Christiansson Steineck had emigrated to the United States of America. Dahlman carried out the last six executions in Sweden, five with the axe and one with the guillotine.
7 August 1890 - execution of Anna Månsdotter in Kristianstad.
17 March 1893 - execution of Per Johan Pettersson in Gävle. 5 July 1900 - execution of Julius Sallrot in Karlskrona.
23 August 1900 - execution of Lars Nilsson in Malmö. 10 December 1900 - execution of John Filip Nordlund in Västeråson
23 November 1910 - execution of Johan Alfred Ander in Stockholm.
During the final ten years of his tenure as executioner in Sweden he carried out no executions. He died on 30 July 1920. In the year after his death, capital punishment was abolished in Sweden for crimes committed during peace.
In 1973 it was abolished for crimes committed during war.
