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.
In 2005, 27 capital sentences were pronounced and at least 8 executions took place, according to AI.