'National penalties - death sentence' in document 'Mongolia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

TITLE TWO
CRIME

CHAPTER THREE
CONCEPT AND CLASSIFICATION OF CRIMES

Article 17. Classification of Crimes

17.5. Crimes punishable by imprisonment of 11 to 15 years or in extraordinary cases of up to 25 years or by death penalty as specified in the Special Part of this Code shall be recognized grave crimes.

GENERAL PART

TITLE THREE
CRIMINAL LIABILITY

CHAPTER NINE
PURPOSE AND TYPES OF PUNISHMENT

Article 53. Death Penalty

53.1. Persons who committed grave crimes may imposed death penalty in the instances specified in the Special part of this Code.

53.2. The death penalty shall be executed by shooting.

53.3. Persons who have been sentenced to death shall be entitled to the pardon request to the President of Mongolia. In case of pardon the death penalty shall be substituted by imprisonment in prison for a term of 30 years.

53.4. The death penalty may not be imposed to the persons who were under 16 years of age at the time of committing crime, men of over 60 years of age and women.

SPECIAL PART

TITLE TEN

CHAPTER THIRTY
CRIMES AGAINST SECURITY OF THE MANKIND AND PEACE

Article 302. Genocide

302. Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such killing of members of the group ; causing grave bodily injuries to members of the group ; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group ; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group or deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term of 20 to 25 years or the death penalty.