我国死刑复核程序之完善刍议

死刑复核程序是为了保障死刑案件质量而设置的特别审判程序,具有鲜明的中国特色。为最大化发挥死刑复核程序的公正司法、防错纠错、保障人权的功能,贯彻落实"保留死刑,严格控制和慎用死刑"的死刑政策,死刑复核程序应当着力加以完善:第一,厘定死刑复核程序的审判性质,选择在现有框架内实现死刑复核程序诉讼化改革的路径,而不必进行三审制转变;第二,加快将法律援助辩护全覆盖至死刑复核程序,充分保障死刑被告人的辩护权;第三,坚持死刑案件在基本事实的证明上达到"唯一性"结论;第四,扩大最高人民法院对死刑复核案件的改判范围,实现公正与效率价值的合理平衡。

On Improvement of the Death Penalty Review Procedure in China

The death penalty review procedure is a special trial procedure set up to ensure the quality of death penalty cases, which has distinct Chinese characteristics. In order to maximize the functions of judicial justice, error prevention and correction, and human rights protection, and to implement the death penalty policy of "keeping death penalty, strictly controlling and using death penalty with caution", the procedure of death penalty review should be improved:First, determine the trial nature of the death penalty review procedure, and choose to strengthen the litigation of the death penalty review procedure within the existing framework, instead of changing into the three trial system;speed up the coverage of legal aid defense to the death penalty review procedure, and fully protect the defense rights of the death penalty defendants;third, adhere to the conclusion of "uniqueness" in the proof of basic facts of death penalty cases;fourth, expand the scope of the Supreme Court to change the original judgment of death penalty review cases, and achieve a reasonable balance between justice and efficiency.