The Report of the European Union on BiH emphasizes the need to abolish the death sentence provision in the Constitution of BH entity of Republika Srpska (RS).
The abolition of the death sentence in BiH is one of the main objectives of human rights policy of the European Union and this obligation applies to any country which tends to become member of the EU, as stated from the EU Delegation to BiH.
“We have appealed to the authorities in BiH, especially in BH entity of the RS, where the Constitution still prescribes the death sentence for the most serious crimes, to ensure the complete abolition of the death sentence. In relation to this, the Report on BiH for 2015 emphasizes the need to abolish the death sentence provision in the Constitution of RS,” said a spokeswoman for the EU Delegation and the Office of the EU Special Representative in BiH, Jamila Milovic-Halilovic, as reported by Tanjug.
She added that the EU repeated the need to initiate the amending of the Constitution of RS again, as well as being aware that BiH abolished the death penalty in 1997, and the fact that the Criminal Code of the RS does not provide this punishment.
Nezavisne novine reported that the National Assembly of RS emphasized that the responsibility for the fact that the death sentence is still in the Constitution of the RS is not on the Parliament, but on the Bosniak Caucus in the Council of Peoples of the RS.
Mujo Hadziomerovic, head of the Bosniak Caucus in the Council of Peoples of the RS, says that the Bosniak Caucus has done everything for the death sentence to be removed from the Constitution of the RS, but according to him, there was no understanding from the Serbian representatives.”
(Source: Al Jazeera)
