Study Of Death Penalty Reforms In The Late Qing Dynasty

The Opium War falls, the late Qing society starts under the externalforce impact to move towards by the agricultural society to modern industry and commerce society's reforming. In this social drasticchange, the late Qing's death penalty transformation to inspects socialvicissitude to have the important range pole value.The death penalty deprives the crime person's life power one kind of penalty, but the life is person all benefits and the right carrier,therefore deprives the life power the death penalty is in the system the most serious one penalty method. But in our country ancient times in the legal framework, the criminal law occupied the important status, but the death penalty also occupied the important status in the criminal law system, therefore the exploration death penalty in the late Qing society's reform vicissitude situation, is helpful to we more thorough understanding end of the Qing China legal systemmodern times advancement, then deepens to the modern society vicissitude understanding.This article attempted take the end of the Qing to repair the law(1902-1912 year) as a center, inspects long and short of the storywhich the late clear death penalty reformed, inquired about the lateclear death penalty reformed the origin, the late clear death penaltyreformed the course, the late clear death penalty reformed debate. Theauthor tries hard through to make macroscopic and the microscopicunion analysis to this vicissitude process, obtains the late cleardeath penalty to reform has realized the death penalty lightpunishment, the modern times, and obtains the death penalty reform isthe end of the Qing repairs the law the core, the death penalty moderntimes is one of end of the Qing criminal law modern times importantsymbols.