摘要
终身监禁制度是《刑法修正案(九)》增设的一项新制度。从规范内涵看,我国的终身监禁不是独立的刑种,而是针对特重大贪污受贿犯罪死缓犯创设的死缓执行方式,其实质是特重大贪污受贿犯罪死缓犯依法减为无期徒刑后,不得再对其进行减刑、假释。"不得减刑、假释"的刚性设计,使终身监禁治理腐败的政策宣示功能得到了彰显,但激励性的缺失和必要性的不足,又使其面临正当性的责难。终身监禁并不具备替代死刑立即执行、限制和废止死刑以及防止服刑期过短的功能,其与死刑一样,都是残酷、不人道的,不符合刑罚轻缓化的时代潮流。无论是作为当前的死缓执行方式,还是未来的具体刑种,终身监禁都难以承受死刑废除之重。我国刑罚不存在"生刑过轻"的问题,死刑废止的症结也不在于有无终身监禁,即使全面废止死刑,我国的刑罚体系仍然是重刑体系,没有可供终身监禁等替代刑植入的空间。
The life imprisonment system is a new system added to the Criminal Law Amendment (Ⅸ). From the perspective of normative connotation,China’s life imprisonment is not an independent punishment,but a reprieve execution method for the probation of a major probation offender for a major corruption and bribery crime. Its essence is that after the probationary offense of extraordinarily serious crimes of corruption and bribery is reduced to life imprisonment,it shall not be commuted or paroled. The rigid design of"no commutation or parole"has made the function of the announcement of life imprisonment to control corruption a reality,but the lack of incentives and necessity has made it face the blame of legitimacy. Life imprisonment does not have the function of replacing death penalty immediately,limiting and abolishing death penalty and preventing short term of sentence. It is as cruel and inhuman as the death penalty,which is not in line with the trend of penalty mitigation. Life imprisonment can hardly bear the abolition of the death penalty,whether as a current mode of execution or a future type of punishment. In China,there is no problem of "non-death penalty is too light",and the crux of abolishing death penalty is not whether there is life imprisonment or not. Even if the death penalty is abolished in an all-round way,China’s penalty system is still a severe penalty system,and there is no room for life imprisonment and other alternative punishment to be implanted.
作者
张永强
ZHANG Yong-qiang(Southwest University of Political Science and Law,Chongqing 401120,China)
出处
《现代法学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2020年第2期194-209,共16页
Modern Law Science
关键词
终身监禁
《刑法修正案(九)》
废止死刑
死刑替代功能
llife imprisonment
the Amendment (Ⅸ) to the Criminal Law
death sentence abolishment
alternative function for the death penalty
