As reduced by an amendment of 1994 to the criminal code...

As reduced by an amendment of 1994 to the criminal code, capital crimes are: premeditated murder, aggravated rape or rape of a minor, and three anti-state offences involving violence.
Women aged 60 and males under 18 at the time of the offence do not receive the death penalty.
After being a Soviet satellite for 65 years, Mongolia began its transition to democratic republicanism in 1990 by legalizing opposition parties and holding the country’s first multiparty elections. The death penalty in Mongolia is considered a state secret; and no official statistics are made available relating to death sentences, executions or the number of people on death row. The families and lawyers of those on death row receive no prior notification of the execution, and the body is not returned to the family after execution.
On January 14, 2010, Mongolia's president announced a moratorium on the death penalty, a move that rights groups welcomed as a step toward changing Mongolian law to ban executions permanently.
"The majority of the world's countries have chosen to abolish the death penalty. We should follow this path," Elbegdorj said. "From tomorrow, I'll pardon those on death row," he said. "I suggest commuting the death penalty to a 30-year severe jail sentence." While the power to commute any death sentences rests with the president, changing the law would require help from Mongolia's opposition-dominated parliament.
As of July 30, 2009, at least nine people are believed to be on death row in Mongolia.
On December 18, 2008 Mongolia voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.
On December 21st, 2010 Mongolia voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.