论绑架罪的修正构成的解释与适用--兼评修正案对绑架罪的修改

On the Explanation and Application of Amended Constitution of Kidnap—Also on the Modification of Amendment VII to Criminal Code

刚刚通过的《中华人民共和国刑法修正案(七)》对于绑架罪进行了部分修正,增设了"情节较轻"的减轻构成规定,这虽然具有重要的意义,但是这一减轻构成的评价、理解与适用本身仍是问题。在对绑架罪的减轻构成从规定方式到下限选择作了评述之后,文章继而讨论了对于"情节较轻"的具体理解问题,特别指出在规定了绑架罪"情节较轻"的构成之后要避免的几种错误倾向。同时,修正案对于绑架罪的加重构成未作任何修改,这十分令人遗憾,而本着严格限制死刑适用的初衷,必须对于现有的加重构成进行严格的限制解释。总体而言,修正案对于绑架罪的修改虽有进步但不彻底,可谓是"半截子的革命"。

The recent amendment VII makes some modification on kidnapping,adding the alleviativing constitution,which has a great meaning,but the evaluation and apprehension and application of the alleviativing constitution remain the question.After evaluating the regulation mode and the limit choice of the above alleviativing constitution,this article discusses the issue of how to understand the so-c alled 'alleviativing circumstance',especially pointing out that several wrong intention after regulated alleviative constitution.Meanwhile,the amendment VII makes no correction on the aggravating constitution,which is a shame,for arising from the origination of limiting the application of death penalty strictly,the aggravating constitution must be explained limitedly strictly.In a word,the amendment VII makes some progress but not so thoroughly,which could be a halfway revolution.