 The actor Janne Carlsson had the chance to watch the execution  scene. The arrangement to behead "him" was done with half a pig,  with the forward legs spread out to get the shape of a human. In the  shoulder area of the pig, props department injected pigs blood and  they mounted a squib to illustrate the actual beheading. At the real  execution the executioner failed to cut the head off twice before he  succeeded on his third attempt. Earlier it was said that if an  executioner failed at the first attempt, the convict got pardoned  and the executioner should be sentenced to death.