Capital punishment in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Capital punishment in Bosnia and Herzegovina is prohibited. It was abolished de facto for all crimes in November 1998 in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the last execution thought to have been carried out there in 1977 for murder -- at that time the Socialist Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina was still one of the constituent republics of Yugoslavia) and on June 21, 2000 in the Republika Srpska, the other of Bosnia and Herzegovina's two entities. However, it was only on October 4, 2019 that capital punishment was completely erased from the Constitution of the Republika Srpska. Until then, it was endorsed under Article 11 of the Constitution of the Republika Srpska. [1]

Bosnia and Herzegovina is party to abolitionist international instruments, including the Council of Europe Protocol no.6 Archived 2014-09-12 at the Wayback Machine and Protocol no.13 Archived 2015-10-07 at the Wayback Machine .

Executions since 1959

Source: SPSK Database

Executed personGenderDate of sentenceDate of executionPlace of executionCrimeMethod
Mijo RadošMale19601960 Doboj War crimes Firing squad
Ivan Tomić19611961 Tuzla
Samid Istić19621962 Brčko Murder of a policeman
Suljo Hrnić19631963 Travnik Double murder
Milojko Arizanović19684 December 1968 Sarajevo Double murder
Đuro Horvat21 December 197217 March 1973 Sarajevo Terrorism
Mirko Vlasnović
Vejsil Keškić
Dragomir Bajčeta3 April 1972August 1973 [2] Sarajevo Child murder
Višnja PavlovićFemale
Dušan ProdićMale8 September 19761977 Doboj Murder

References

  1. "Ustavni sud BiH ukinuo smrtnu kaznu u Republici Srpskoj". Klix.ba (in Bosnian).
  2. "Kako su strijeljane Brunine ubice Tekst je izvorno objavljen na portalu www.Zenicablog.com. Prenošenje dozvoljeno samo uz pismenu dozvolu". Zenicablog Arhiva. 2 May 2014. Archived from the original on 30 November 2024. Retrieved 18 April 2018.