终身监禁制度在我国的现实意义与未来走向

The Future Trend of Life Imprisonment System in China

"生刑过轻,死刑过重"恰如其分地阐明了我国刑事立法与司法的现状,终身监禁的出现在某种程度上缓和甚至消解了这一矛盾,平息了公众对于贪贿犯罪的合理愤怒。只要承认非暴力犯罪的死刑废止趋势已是不可逆转的,那么终身监禁必然作为死刑的替代措施不断得到完善与发展。终身监禁与死缓制度、无期徒刑在我国都有着本质的差异与鸿沟,应当将其作为一项独立的刑种统摄到我国现行刑罚体系中,它在未来的完善方向包括罪名的扩张以及执行标准的明确这两个方面。罪名的扩张须考量我国现实状况将终身监禁合理扩张至其他非暴力犯罪;执行标准明确则应正视终身监禁刑的严酷性。

Punishment is too light, the death penalty is overweight,which illustrates the current situation of criminallegislation and judicature in our country, the emergence of life imprisonment to some extent mitigate or even eliminatethis contradiction, ease anger for the public to take bribes crime reasonable. As long as the death penalty abolishmenttrend of non-violent crime is irreversible, life imprisonment is an inevitable substitute for the death penalty. They shall beas independent ideas of mitigation to the current system of punishment. It improves the direction in the future includingthe expansion of the charges and clears the two aspects of standards. The expansion of the crime should consider the reali-ty of our country to extend life imprisonment reasonably to other non-violent crimes. The standard of execution should befaced with the rigor of life imprisonment.