司法证明视角下受贿罪死缓量刑之优化

The Improved Sentencing of Death Penalty with a Reprieve in the Crimes of Accepting Bribes from the Perspective of Judicial Proof

党的十八大后,死刑缓期执行逐渐取代死刑立即执行,成为惩处受贿行为最严厉的刑罚方式,并在废除受贿死刑进程中发挥着过渡与协调作用。死缓作为附属于死刑的刑罚执行方式,在裁量时应首先满足受贿罪死刑情节,并伴有从轻处罚情形。当下,受贿罪从轻情节的认定具有较为稳定的司法规律,但《刑法》及相关司法解释对受贿死刑情节的表述不具可操作性,这导致了受贿死缓与其下位刑罚裁量的宽严失据。司法解释应优化受贿死刑情节并使之易于证明,以期准确地运用死缓判决对最为严重的受贿犯罪进行惩处。

Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the CPC,the death sentence with a reprieve has substituted the immediate execution of the death sentence and become the harshest punishment for the most serious bribery acceptance.The death sentence with a reprieve also has a transitional and coordinating effect in abolishing the death penalty in bribery cases.As an execution way of death penalty,the reprieve sentence should first satisfy the circumstances of death penalty,and then has certain attenuating circumstances.At present,there are some stable juridical laws of identifying the attenuating circumstances in the crime of accepting bribes,but the death circumstances of accepting bribes expressed in criminal law and relevant judicial interpretations are not practical.As a consequence,the discretion of death sentence with a reprieve becomes disordered.Judicial interpretation should make the death circumstances more concrete and easy for proof in bribery cases.In this way,we can use the death sentence with a reprieve to punish the most serious crimes of accepting bribes accurately.