Serbia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · In Yugoslavia the death penalty is applied for aggravated...
- News items in the archive
- 91
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Serbia 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 91 news items on Serbia, from 1999 to today.
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- JUNE 19, 2002SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
A new Penal Code was adopted in Montenegro that replaced...
A new Penal Code was adopted in Montenegro that replaced death penalty with 40 years in jail
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Serbis's parliament abolished the death penalty as...
Serbis's parliament abolished the death penalty as part of a wider criminal law reform
- FEBRUARY 8, 2002SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Montenegrin government endorsed a bill of amendments...
The Montenegrin government endorsed a bill of amendments to the penal code abolishing the death sentence, Justice Minister Zeljko Sturanovic said
- FEBRUARY 6, 2002SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Montenegro's Deputy Prime Minister Dragan Djurovic...
Montenegro's Deputy Prime Minister Dragan Djurovic said that the death sentence is soon to be abolished in Montenegro
- JANUARY 1, 2002SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is composed of the...
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is composed of the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro, together with the province of Kosovo which is currently under the administration of the UN
- NOVEMBER 8, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Montenegrin Minister of Justice Zeljko Sturanovic said...
Montenegrin Minister of Justice Zeljko Sturanovic said that in the forthcoming months amendments to the current Penal Code would be completed, which would abolish the death penalty, as Montenegro is the only country in the region which has this penalty, a
- NOVEMBER 5, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
An advisor to the Yugoslav justice minister, Goran...
An advisor to the Yugoslav justice minister, Goran Tokic, said that the new Yugoslav Penal Code envisages the possible extradition of Yugoslav and foreign citizens to an international tribunal, which Yugoslavia has agreed to recognize
- NOVEMBER 5, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
YUGOSLAVIA ABROGATES THE DEATH PENALTY
November 5, 2001: the Chamber of Citizens of Yugoslavia’s Federal parliament voted to replace capital punishment in the Criminal Code with a prison sentence of forty years.
- OCTOBER 25, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Chamber of the Republics of the Yugoslav parliament...
The Chamber of the Republics of the Yugoslav parliament passed a bill on criminal proceedings and changes and amendments to the Yugoslav Penal Law pertaining to abolishment of the death penalty and its substitution with 40 years in prison
- OCTOBER 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Belgrade district deputy prosecutor Nebojsa Maras requested...
Belgrade district deputy prosecutor Nebojsa Maras requested the death penalty for three people charged with killing Serbian warlord Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan early in 2000
- OCTOBER 20, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The president of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro,...
The president of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, Ratko Vukotic, is of the view that Montenegro "would not have had the death penalty had it been an independent state, since it would have been bound by European laws"
- OCTOBER 19, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Yugoslav government adopted draft annexes and amendments...
The Yugoslav government adopted draft annexes and amendments to the Yugoslav criminal law, abolishing the death penalty in the country's legislation, introducing instead a prison sentence of 40 years
- OCTOBER 12, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe warned the Yugoslav republic...
The Council of Europe warned the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro that it could be shut out of the organisation if it carries out a death sentence handed down to two of its citizens
- OCTOBER 12, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Two Montenegrin were condemned to death from a Podgorica...
Two Montenegrin were condemned to death from a Podgorica tribunal, as they killed a Slovenian citizen last February
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Yugoslavia could become a full member of the Council...
Yugoslavia could become a full member of the Council of Europe by June 2002, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Lord Russel Johnston said after visiting the Federal Yugoslav Parliament
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
A lawyer from the central Serbian town of Paracin was...
A lawyer from the central Serbian town of Paracin was sentenced to death for raping and murdering a 19-year old girl in 1996
- AUGUST 3, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Serbian Justice Ministry has drawn up draft amendments...
The Serbian Justice Ministry has drawn up draft amendments to the Penal Code of Serbia
- AUGUST 2, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague sentenced General Radislav Krstic to 46 years in prison for participating in the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in the Srebrenica enclave
- JUNE 27, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Dragoljub Micunovic, the speaker of the federal parliament's...
Dragoljub Micunovic, the speaker of the federal parliament's chamber of citizens, announced that Yugoslavia could become a member of the Council of Europe by the end of the year
- JUNE 25, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Yugoslavia has abolished the death penalty, the Belgrade-based...
Yugoslavia has abolished the death penalty, the Belgrade-based Radio B92 text web site reported
- JUNE 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after...
The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after elections were followed by an uprising by more than half a million people who took to the streets of Belgrade, seized the parliament, and burned down the state television station
- JUNE 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Yugoslav cabinet approved a decree that paves the...
The Yugoslav cabinet approved a decree that paves the way for the extradition of former President Slobodan Milosevic to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague
- JUNE 4, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Serbian Justice Minister, Vladan Batic, said that Serbia...
Serbian Justice Minister, Vladan Batic, said that Serbia had accepted Council of Europe and EU demands to strike the death penalty from the republican penal code as a condition for membership of the institutions
- APRIL 9, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Minister of Justice, Vladan Batic, stated that...
The Minister of Justice, Vladan Batic, stated that Serbia would not be abolishing the death penalty in the near future even though such actions would hinder their accession to the Council of Europe
- APRIL 6, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Dragisa Blanusa, director of the Belgrade Central Prison,...
Dragisa Blanusa, director of the Belgrade Central Prison, said the prison houses four death row inmates
- APRIL 5, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Serbia's justice minister, meeting U
Serbia's justice minister, meeting U
- APRIL 4, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The UN war crimes tribunal hardened its position on...
The UN war crimes tribunal hardened its position on the future for Slobodan Milosevic, pressing for his immediate and unconditional surrender to The Hague
- APRIL 3, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic said it is "conceivable"...
Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic said it is "conceivable" that former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic could be executed
- APRIL 3, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Yugoslav authorities said that former president...
The Yugoslav authorities said that former president Slobodan Milosevic may face charges that carry the death penalty, and the country's current president, Vojislav Kostunica, ruled out extraditing his predecessor to the UN war crimes tribunal soon
- FEBRUARY 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The former chief of Yugoslavia's feared secret police
The former chief of Yugoslavia's feared secret police