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Commission on Human Rights Resolution, E/CN.4/RES/2004/67, April 21, 2004: The question of the death penalty

4. Urges all States that still maintain the death penalty: (…)

(f) To ensure that the notion of “most serious crimes” does not go beyond intentional crimes with lethal or extremely grave consequences and that the death penalty is not imposed for non violent acts such as financial crimes, religious practice or expression of conscience and sexual relations between consenting adults;

link to full text of Resolution: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/E/CHR/resolutions/E-CN_4-RES-2004-67.doc