The Legitimacy and Path of Extending the Scope of Application of Life Imprisonment System
Life imprisonment is a major theoretical and institutional innovation in the careful use of death penalty for corruption and bribery crimes under the criminal policy of combining leniency with severity.Under the trend of careful use of death penalty and reduction of death penalty crimes,it is an inevitable trend of its development to expand the scope of application of life imprisonment.To explore the path of expanding the scope of application of life imprisonment,we should compare and learn from the legislative experience of for-eign countries and examine the judicial status quo of foreign countries.The justification of expanding the scope of application of life imprisonment lies in its function of both retribution and prevention,and it under-takes the mission of restricting and replacing death penalty under the background of death penalty reform.The application system of life imprisonment should be expanded under the premise of strictly restricting the appli-cation conditions,and the amnesty system should be used as the remedy way to highlight the humanitarian spirit of criminal law and educate and reform criminals.
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