唐初立法对死刑的限制

Legal Restrictions on Death Penalty in the Early Tang Dynasty

唐初的统治者奉行"死者不可再生,用法务在宽简"的政策,采取了一系列立法措施,诸如:减少死刑条款的数目,简化死刑执行方式,减轻死罪量刑幅度,增设免死或缓决特例,确立"尚轻缓"的刑罚适用原则,严格死刑审判执行的程序,等等,对死刑的适用加以严格限制。

The rulers of the early Tang Dynasty carried on the policy of ＂the impossible revival of the dead＂ and ＂lenient treatment of law- breakers＂, and therefore, they took some appropriate legal measures such as, reducing the items of death penalty, simplifying the execution of death penalty,mitigating the extent of measurement of death penalty, setting up exemption and probation from death penalty, and amplifying the rigid procedures of death penalty.