Capital punishment in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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 be 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.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is party to abolitionist international instruments, including the Council of Europe Protocol no.6 and Protocol no.13.

Executions since 1959

Source: SPSK Database

Executed person	Gender	Date of sentence	Date of execution	Place of execution	Crime	Method
Mijo Radoš	Male	1960	1960	Doboj	War crimes	Firing squad
Ivan Tomić		1961	1961	Tuzla
Samid Istić		1962	1962	Brčko	Murder of a policeman
Suljo Hrnić		1963	1963	Travnik	Double murder
Milojko Arizanović		1968	4 December 1968	Sarajevo	Double murder
Đuro Horvat		21 December 1972	17 March 1973	Sarajevo	Terrorism
Mirko Vlasnović
Vejsil Keškić
Dragomir Bajčeta		3 April 1972	August 1973	Sarajevo	Child murder
Višnja Pavlović	Female
Dušan Prodić	Male	8 September 1976	1977	Doboj	Murder

References

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