论我国人权的保障与死刑的保留

DISCUSSION ON THE GUARANTEE OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND KEEPING USE OF DEATH PENALTY IN OUR COUNTRY

死刑是一种最古老、最久远的刑罚。随着人类社会人权呼声的日益高涨，世界上已有近１１０个国家和地区废除或者实际上不执行死刑。１９９８年１０月５日，我国政府签署了联合国《公民权利和政治权利公约》，但同时提出了保留意见，其中之一就是：我国仍坚持保留死刑。我国的做法是否会出现人权保障与死刑保留的相互矛盾？我国死刑的保留是否具有其必要性？本文拟从人权保障和刑法学的角度对死刑保留进行探讨，说明在我国保留死刑正是为了有效保障我国公民的人权，是我国基本国情的需要。我国保留死刑的适用，与国际人权公约及其精神是完全一致的。

： Death penalty is an oldest penalty. There are almos t 110 countries and areas in the world who have abolished death penalty or stopp ed executing death penalty.For many times,the United Nations has put forward the restricted use and aboliton of death penalty in its conventions and documents. The Chinese Government signed the United Nation's 'Conventions on Civil Rig hts and Political Rights' on the 5th of October, 1998,but the government put fo rward one of retained opinions that our country continues to keep use of death p enalty.Is this contrary to the guarantee of the human rights?What are the necess ity and reason of doing so? Here, I will discuss the necessities of our country' s keeping use of death penalty on the view of human rights and that keeping use of death penalty is for protecting the human rights of the most of the 1.295 bil lion people in our country.This is suited to the conditions of the present time of our country.