论死刑立法安排中的“宽严相济”政策——从形式意义上考察

On the Criminal Policy of Looseness and Tightness of the Legislative Arrangements about the Death Penalty ——From the Angle of External Sense

我国《刑法》涉及死刑的犯罪,根据犯罪行为是否直接导致死亡后果为依据,可以划分为致命性犯罪和非致命性犯罪两大类。为了体现宽严相济的刑事政策,在死刑的立法安排上,既应当强调实质上的减少死刑,也应当强调形式上减少死刑。在致命性犯罪领域,死刑配置应当"内严外宽";在非致命性犯罪领域,死刑配置应当"外严内宽"。这种安排,对于柔化国民对死刑的心理感受和发挥死刑的抚慰功能,有着重要的立法方法论价值。

The crimes concerned of death penalty provided in Criminal Law, can be classified into fatal crimes and non-fatal ones according to the result whether it leads to death or not. Taking the criminal policies of limitations of death penalty into considerations, we should emphasize external limitations as well as essential ones. On the one hand, in the field of fatal crimes, the legislative arrangements of death penalty should follow the rule of interior intensity and outer slack. On the other hand, in the field of nonfatal crimes, the arrangements of death penalty should follow the rule of interior slack and outer intensity. Both arrangements are of significance to alleviate people＇ s sense to death penalty and to upgrade the deterrent effect of death penalty.