死刑与误判——以美国68%的死刑误判率为出发点

Perspective on American Capital Error

以哥伦比亚大学法学院刑事法方面的教授为主体的一批美国学者对美国1973年至1995年判处的全部死刑案件进行了详细的研究,他们统计出了美国死刑案件的平均误判率,推算出了影响刑事案件审判质量的各项因素与死刑误判之间的具体数量关系,并据此提出了解决死刑误判问题的十项对策。该研究虽然存在一定的缺陷,但其对中国死刑乃至整个刑事司法制度的研究以及改革与完善都具有非常重要的启迪价值。

A Group of American scholars with the criminal professors of Columbia Law School as their main body conducted a comprehensive study on all capital cases decided from 1973 to 1995. They counted up the average capital error rate in America, and calculated the exact quantitative relationship between the factors affecting the criminal trial and capital error, and accordingly put forward ten countermeasures to resolve the problem of capital error. Although this research has defects, it has great enlightening values to the research, reform and perfection of the capital system, even the whole criminal judicial system of our country.