Court of Appeal, Niš, Suppreme Court of Cassation
Received: March 10th 2021
Accepted: March 31st 2021
UDK: 343.261(497.11) 343.292/.293(497.11)
Pages: 173-184
doi: doi.org/10.47152/rkkp.59.1.7
The latest amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia have quite a lot of controversy among the professional public. The subject of this paper is a critical review of various propositions for overcoming legislative omissions in relation to the sentence of life imprisonment without conditional release for certain criminal offences. Furthermore, this paper deals with prison sentences for crimes for which the conditional release is legally excluded. The intention is to encourage the professional public to find the best solutions for overcoming legally untenable prohibition of conditional release for people sentenced to life imprisonment. The author estimates that pardon, in our legislation, does not represent an effective legal remedy, nor an alternative to conditional release.
KEY WORDS: life imprisonment, conditional release, motion for an extraordinary reduction of sentence, pardon.
