On Life Imprisonment

"Criminal law amendment (nine) " formally adopted in August 29th last year, the crime of bribery, corruption and crime in article forty-fourth for the following provisions:"sentenced to death, the people's court in accordance with the criminal offence of giving its death after two years of probation to life imprisonment decisions, is actually a life imprisonment can not parole and commutation of punishment". Since the beginning of the formal implementation of the law, the law of our country, "life in prison" for the first time in a new look has become part of the criminal code, is a major highlight of the criminal law amendment. Life imprisonment is a kind of penalty which is commonly used in the common law countries. Why is the introduction of the criminal law in our country? The difference of life imprisonment and common law in our life in prison? This caused the extensive discussion in the law circle of our country, some agree, some opposition, some expressed cautious optimism that this is not the only one. In all the discussion in the article, most scholars only from one aspect or a point of discussion, not a comprehensive analysis of anatomy and appeared in our country in the criminal law of life imprisonment, the author wants to conduct a comprehensive and detailed exposition to life imprisonment from five aspects, let people have a comprehensive understanding of life imprisonment, and the legal position, the criminal law of our country, nature of life imprisonment in the legal practice how to use the existence of the value and significance of it are analyzed and described, so that the people of our country for life to have a clear understanding of the author to me country life imprisonment dispute and the future development of a simple analysis. In short, the emergence of life imprisonment in the criminal law of our country, it is in line with the law of the development of things, there is the reality of its existence, it allows the future development and improvement of the constant. The full text is divided into five parts: the first part starts from the concept, the difference between life imprisonment, life imprisonment and China; the second part of the legal nature of China's criminal law in nine life imprisonment for positioning, how to apply the problem in detail; the third part analyzes the reasons for our additional life imprisonment; the fourth part discusses the value and significance of our additional life imprisonment; the fifth part discusses our additional life imprisonment still exists controversy and future development.