10/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - EU hails abolition of capital punishment. During the evening of Wednesday 9 December, the European Union hailed the vote of the Mongolian parliament on Friday 4 December for a new criminal code that abolishes the death penalty for all crimes. It said it was “truly excellent news”. “Taking effect from September 2016, this formal legal step follows on from the moratorium on the use of the death penalty that has been applied in Mongolia since January 2010”,...