Bosnia & Herzegovina
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1998
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JULY 1, 1998 · In July 1998, the Federation adopted a new criminal...
- News items in the archive
- 45
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Bosnia & Herzegovina is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 45 news items on Bosnia & Herzegovina, from 1998 to today.
Latest news
- AUGUST 2, 2001Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague found General Radislav Krstic guilty of participating in the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in the Srebrenica enclave, a haven that was under United Nations control until it came unde
- APRIL 25, 2001Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Bosnia and Herzegovina was a cosponsor of the resolution...
Bosnia and Herzegovina was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- MARCH 15, 2001Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations received the relevant documents...
The United Nations received the relevant documents of ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, from Bosnia and Herzegovina
- JANUARY 23, 2001Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
The first local trial of six Bosnian Muslims charged...
The first local trial of six Bosnian Muslims charged with war crimes committed against Bosnian Croat prisoners in the Mostar region during the conflict of 1993-94, has begun in Mostar
- JANUARY 1, 2001Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
War crimes and genocide are capital crimes
War crimes and genocide are capital crimes
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Bosnia signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International...
Bosnia signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- JUNE 25, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's...
Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's most notorious prison camps, was arrested by British troops and flown to The Hague to face trial
- JUNE 22, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
The Assembly of the Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb...
The Assembly of the Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb Republic, entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina adopted a new criminal code which changed the death penalty to life imprisonment
- APRIL 26, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Bosnia-Herzegovina cosponsored the resolution on the...
Bosnia-Herzegovina cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- MARCH 14, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Former Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic, 52, was...
Former Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic, 52, was charged with the July 1995 slaughter of at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, a UN-declared demilitarised zone
- JANUARY 14, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia convicted five ethnic Croats of ethnic cleansing in a 1993 rampage in a Bosnian village which left 116 Muslims dead
- JANUARY 1, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
War crimes and genocide are capital crimes
War crimes and genocide are capital crimes
- APRIL 28, 1999Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Bosnia and Herzegovina was a cosponsor of the resolution...
Bosnia and Herzegovina was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- JANUARY 1, 1999Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
War crimes and genocide are capital crimes
War crimes and genocide are capital crimes
- JULY 1, 1998Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
In July 1998, the Federation adopted a new criminal...
In July 1998, the Federation adopted a new criminal code abolishing the death penalty