进一步推进死刑改革的设想——废除女性犯罪死刑适用

More Thoughts on Death Penalty:Abolishing Death Penalty for Female Offenders

为进一步限制、减少死刑的适用,全面废除女性犯罪适用死刑的设想据此提上日程。该设想主要依据在于:我国刑法自古就有宽待女性的传统;即使在保留死刑的国家中,也有不少废除了对女性犯罪的死刑;结合女性犯罪自身的特点与刑罚的目的,在宽严相济刑事政策的背景下没有必要对女性罪犯适用死刑;通过对我国刑法中怀孕的妇女不得判处死刑这一规定进行目的性解释,将全体女性排除在死刑适用对象之外也符合限制死刑的根本目标。

It is time that abolishing death penalty for female offenders put into agenda in China in order to further restrict and reduce death penalty. This assumption is based on the arguments as follows: firstly,there has been a tradition in China to treat female offenders with leniency since the ancient time; secondly,abolishing death penalty is a world-wide trend and even some of the nations which still retain the death penalty never execute a woman; thirdly,it is not necessary to sentence women to death under the background of the Criminal Policy of Temper Justice with Mercy due to the characteristics of female offences and the purpose of penalty; finally,it reaches the ultimate goal of restricting capital punishment for all women criminals when interpreting why pregnant women are not sentenced to death.