The man describes it as if it hit him hard.
He was at the home of a couple of acquaintances in Västerås on a February day last year to look for a missing phone.
When he realized that one of them had taken it, he became so angry that he took out a knife and cut one of his acquaintances across the neck.
Witnesses, including the victim's wife, have recounted how the knife-wielding man panicked and died of death.
The district court described the death process as protracted and extremely painful and sentenced the man to life in prison for murder.
Reduced the penalty
The Court of Appeal changed the sentence to 18 years' imprisonment, referring to the fact that there were also certain mitigating circumstances in the case.
And there, in the Court of Appeal, the vast majority of murder cases reach their legal end.
This could have been the case for the man in Västerås as well.
But the month before the murder, the murder legislation had changed and there was thus a need for guidance for the country's courts on how to judge in cases like this.
The Attorney General requested and received leave to appeal to the Supreme Court (HD).
The new version of the law states, among other things, that the most severe punishment may be relevant if the act entailed severe suffering for the victim, if it was intended to promote or conceal other crime or "otherwise been particularly ruthless".
Not life
On Friday, HD announced its verdict - and the punishment for the man will be 18 years in prison.
The Supreme Court states that the starting point is still that murder should result in a fixed-term sentence, but a consequence of the change in the law is that it should not require as aggravating circumstances as before to sentence a life sentence.
"This means that the life sentence will be sentenced in more cases where the sentence according to previous case law has remained at a fixed-term prison on the upper part of the penalty scale," writes HD in its judgment.