Title: An Contemporary Consideration of the Death Penalty in China——From the perspective of policy and legislation
Abstract: Keep death penalty,strictly control and carefully apply death is China’s consistent basic policy of death penalty. In recent years,holding a hearing of second instance trial of capital cases and exercising approval authority of capital cases unifiedly by the Supreme People’s Court were implemented. These measures are further improvement of death penalty policy. Nevertheless,some provisions of death penalty in Criminal Law are still inconsistent with our current death penalty policy. In order to implement this policy better and to ensure fairness of death penalty applying,we should abolish two-year stay of execution in Criminal Law General Principles and then refine the identification criteria of extremely serious in each one death charge. The policy of two crimes with one kind of punishment should be applied to those committing both bribery crime and corruption crime,so as offenders reaching a certain total number not to escape death penalty.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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