贪贿犯罪终身监禁适用下死缓虚置问题研究

A Study on the Empty Application of Death With a Reprieve under the Application of LWOP in Embezzlement and Bribery Crimes

终身监禁的设置是为了弥补死刑立即执行与死缓之间的空挡,通过对贪贿犯罪中死缓适用的变化量实证分析发现,终身监禁并没有弥补空挡,反而是普通死缓适用虚置的原因之一;同时发现终身监禁适用的数额跨度过大,无期徒刑与普通死缓的数额适用区间存在重合,普通死缓的数额适用空间被压缩,其原因在于立法与司法解释没有明确死缓与终身监禁的适用标准界限。通过厘清《刑法》第383条与《解释》第4条的逻辑与内涵,扩大贪贿犯罪中死缓适用的数额区间,量化"特别重大损失"从而可以解决贪贿犯罪终身监禁适用下死缓虚置的问题。

Life imprisonment without parole(Hereinafter referred to as LWOP) is set to fill the gap between death penalty and death with a reprieve.Through empirical analysis of the application of the death with a reprieve,it found that LWOP does not fill the gap,but rather creates the empty application of death with a reprieve.Meanwhile,it was found that the applicable amount of LWOP was too large,the application range of the amount of life imprisonment and ordinary death reprieve overlapped,and the application space of ordinary death reprieve was compressed.The reason for this is that the legislation and judicial interpretation do not clarify the boundary of the applicable standard of LWOP and death with a reprieve.By clarifying the logic and connotation of Article 383 of the Criminal Law and Article 4 of the Explanation,it can expand the amount range for death with a reprieve in embezzlement and bribery crimes and quantify the“particularly significant loss”to solve the problem of the empty application of death with a reprieve under the application of LWOP.