Per Pålsson

Per Pålsson was in the end pardoned and instead of having to face the death penalty was sentenced to life imprisonment.

He was sentenced to 10 days imprisonment and to work for the local church in Örkelljunga.

He died on 24 December 1868 during a robbery gone wrong, ending in Hanna being shot.

The Härads court sentenced Pålsson on 21 May 1853 for the robbery and murder of Hanna Pålsdotter, and he was sentenced to Uppenbar kyrkoplikt, to be whipped and to the death penalty by decapitation.

A book by Christine Billing, Helene Ehriander, January Garpenhus and Helena Holmkrantz, called Ödes julen i Lemmeshult 1868 covering the murder and its aftermath was published in 1985.