5. Calls upon all States that still maintain the death penalty: (…)

(f) To ensure also 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 nor as a mandatory sentence;

link to full text of Resolution: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/E/CHR/resolutions/E-CN_4-RES-2005-59.doc

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