死刑复核程序刍议

On the Death Penalty Review Procedure

我国刑事诉讼法规定了严格的死刑复核程序,它的设置对于严格把握死刑的适用,统一掌握死刑标准,贯彻少杀的刑事政策大有助益。但是,由于目前我国死刑复核制度与二审合二为一,死刑复核程序虚置现象严重,死刑复核起不到应有的作用。另外,最高人民法院把死刑复核权下放,各省法院对死刑标准掌握不一,形成一国之内法律面前事实上不平等的局面。应将死刑复核权统一收归最高院行使,创建开放式的死刑复核程序。

Chinese criminal procedural law stipulates strict death penalty review procedure, and the establishment of this procedure helps to strictly control the use of death penalty, to establish standard of death penalty, and to carry out current penal policy. However, since combined with case review, death penalty review procedure is severely ignored and does not play the role it should do. Besides, death penalty review right transferred from the Supreme People' s Court to higher people' s courts and different understanding of its standard form the situation that people are not actually equal before laws. The author urges that the Supreme People' s Court should regain the right of death penalty review and establish a new open death penalty review procedure.