关于死刑案件证明标准的思考

我国死刑案件证明标准目前采用和普通刑事案件相同的证明标准,这不利于被告人的生命和自由的保障。应在定罪程序和量刑程序实现分离的基础上,对量刑阶段的证明标准加以提高。同时应分清留有余地判处死缓案件与疑案的情况,并采取不同的处理方式,证明标准的适用需要死刑程序加以保障。

Thinking on the Standard of the Death Cases

This article first analyzes the problems of proving standard for death penalty cases and then explains the current proving standard and suggests that the standard should be enhanced.About the method for the enhancement of proving standard,the article holds that the proving standard for sentencing procedure should be heightened after separating the trial procedure into conviction and sentencing procedure.Meanwhile,the article point out that the differences between suspect death penalty cases and hard death penalty cases should be realized and different measures should be taken to tackle different situations.In the end,this article emphasizes the safeguard function of death penalty procedure for using the proving standard.