也论终身监禁规定的法律性质

Still on the Legal Nature of Life Imprisonment

关于贪污受贿犯罪终身监禁规定的法律性质,学界存在不同看法。代表性的有"中间刑说""与死缓有别的死刑执行方式说"以及"死缓执行方式说"等。深入检视这些观点,会发现它们均未能将终身监禁规定的法律性质准确定位。通过将分则个罪的终身监禁规定加以立法语言的还原性分析,从法条逻辑上讲,终身监禁规定应接续《刑法》总则第50条第2款,成为《刑法》第50条"第3款"之应然内容,本质属于"死缓同时不得减刑、假释"制度。它丰富了死缓法律后果的层次性,是死缓犯面临的最严厉的法律后果。惟有厘清其性质,才能更好地对认识、反思、比较和适用我国终身监禁的规定。

There are different views on the legal nature of life imprisonment for corruption and bribery,the representative examples include the “interim sentence theory”,“the death penalty execution method that is different from the death reprieve”,and“the death penalty execution method”.Closer examination of these points reveals that none of them has accurately positioned the legal nature of life imprisonment.By reductive analyzing the separate provisions and crimes of the life imprisonment rule using legislative language,logically speaking,the life imprisonment should follow the second paragraph of Article 50 of the general provisions of the criminal law,and become the third paragraph,which belongs to the system of“death reprieve without commutation or parole”.It enriches the hierarchy of legal consequences of reprieves and is the most severe legal consequences for reprieve offenders.Only by clarifying the legal nature of life imprisonment we can better understand,reflect on,compare and apply it.