Research, Legal Issues In The Country To Introduce Life Imprisonment

Life imprisonment is a more severe penalty free punishment, has been widely applied in the world, especially in countries abolished the death penalty, life imprisonment became the most severe penalty. In modern society, the abolition of the death penalty is the trend, even if not immediately abolish the death penalty, but the application of the death penalty was limited to a small range. Throughout Western countries, or is the total abolition of the death penalty, or the death penalty is rare, even for those more serious crimes criminals, they use more or life imprisonment. Can be said that in those developed countries, punishment of life imprisonment popular because it meets the modern penalty on education, reform criminals requirements.China as a world power, after thirty years of reform and opening up the development, whether in economic, political or culture have made remarkable achievements. But with this very coordinated implementation of the death penalty is the number of year was actually the world, their number far exceeds other countries in the world. The abolition of capital punishment has become the mainstream view of the theoretical circle, we have to reform our penalty structure. Penalty structure in China to reform its main task is to make students a smooth transition between the punishment and the death penalty, a smooth connection.In the author's point of view, to follow the historical trend, the penalty should be carried out structural reforms to limit the maximum penalty to life imprisonment must be criminal in China, the introduction of species; and after the introduction of life imprisonment sentence structure changes. This article is written from the above point of view.The first chapter describes the detailed system of punishment of life imprisonment, life imprisonment for the reader on a comprehensive understanding of the system; The second chapter analyzes the standing objective advantages and disadvantages of a sentence of imprisonment for life; the third chapter in what is described in detail of the reasons for the introduction of life imprisonment; fourth chapter is envisaged after the introduction of life imprisonment for criminal penalties for changes in the structure of China, and the corresponding legislative proposals.