终身监禁制度的反思与完善

The Nature and Reflection of the System of Life Imprisonment

在法律地位上,终身监禁制度是死刑缓期执行方式的执行结果,实质意义上的无期徒刑。我国的终身监禁只适用于贪污罪和受贿罪的现状打破了刑罚结构的均衡状态。横向比较,刑罚结构内部罪刑配置失衡;纵向观察,分则中规定的终身监禁引发了总分则间法条衔接及语义冲突的问题。在立即废止该制度不具备应然性和现实可行性的前提下,应通过对法条进行立法技术和实质内容的局部调整,以改变刑罚结构内部的冲突状态,实现刑罚结构的体系化。

The system of life imprisonment is the execution result of the death penalty reprieve in the legal status, which equals to life imprisonment in essence. China＇ s imprisonment for life only applies on the crimes of corruption and bribery, which breaks the balance in the penalty structure. By horizontal comparison, the penalty structure of crime and punishment is imbalance, and from longitudinal perspective, the provisions of life imprisonment cause problems, like the legal links and semantic conflicts. On the premise that the system could not be abolished immediately because it is not achievable, it is necessary to adjust the lawmaking and the substantive content of the law in order to change the internal conflict state of the criminal law structure and achieve the systematism of the criminal law structure.