死刑执行的仪式流变与理性回归

On the Ritual Transforming and Rational Return of Death Penalty Execution

死刑执行是以死刑存在为前提的刑罚实现,撇开死刑的存废之争而聚焦于死刑的行刑变革可以获得与众不同的诸多启发意义。专制时代的死刑执行是仪式化运用的展现,在重实体、轻程序的传统司法体制下,死刑执行却以彰显程序设计的显性特点让人觉察到刑事司法的另一面孔。死刑执行仪式化背后具有多元因素的积极推进,作为刑罚权威象征符号的综合体,死刑执行通过"表演"仪式进行角色演绎和功能对接。伴随权利意识的苏醒与理性法治的推动,"演出"仪式在死刑执行过程中的退场成为最终结局,死刑执行转移到程序规则与人道价值的自觉遵守上来,揭示了程序法治和刑罚观念渐进成长的演进历程。

Death penalty execution acting as the penalty achievement is premised on death sentence,and there are lots of unusual inspiring meanings focusing on death penalty execution reformation,putting aside the reservation or abolishment of the death penalty. The death penalty execution embodies ceremony application in authoritarianism era. In the judicial system of valuing substantiality and depreciating procedure,nevertheless the procedural designing of death penalty execution shows another face.The execution ritual as a synthesis of penalty authority symbolism originates from multiple factors,and the execution plays its role and function by way of performance. Accompanying the promotion of right consciousness and rational constitutionality,the show ritual walked out of death penalty execution in the end and has shifted to procedural rules and humanity value,which manifests continuous evolution and maturity of procedure law and penalty concept.