Outline Of Legislative Limitation On Death Penalty

Death penalty, that is capital punishment , is a kind of penalty depriving of criminal's life .It is the oldest penalty that has been in the first place of penalties for thousands of years, greeted by all societies. That the famous Italian criminalist Beccaria advanced an idea of abolishing death penalty in his known works on crimes and penalties in 1764, aroused the argument about existence or abolition of death penalty in the world for more than 200 years. With the growth of modern movement of human rights, human rights has been formulated one of the international principles. Protecting human rights has become the popular requirements of all people, and death penalty has been turned into one of issues focused by the world people accordingly.The theme includes three parts. The first one is surveying the attitudes of death penalty in international conventions on human rights, from abandonment of death penalty to restriction and to abolition. The second one is the systems of death penalty of our nation, from the origin of death penalty to the process of development to legislative sketch nowadays and to the argument about existence or abolition of death penalty. The third one is our nation rigidly restricting the legislation of death penalty based on international conventions on human rights, including substantial legislative limitation of death penalty and procedural legislative limitation of it.Through surveying the attitudes of death penalty in international conventions on human rights, The theme advances an idea of abolishing death penalty to keep in accordance with the trend of international development. In view of our nation's facts, death penalty can't be abolished currently because our country is short of substantial and mental conditions, viewing that death penalty will be stopped only when the country has become a comparatively well-off society thoroughly. So it is too early to...