陸司法改革 死刑二審需開庭

2011/05/25 17:27:17
  
（中央社台北25日電）為回應民眾維權呼聲，中國大陸最高人民法院24日發佈「2010年年度工作報告」（簡稱「報告」）稱，今後在審理死刑覆核案件時，若非判處限期執行死刑的，均需判處死刑緩期2年執行。
新京報報導，此項措施用意在統一死刑的適用標準。「報告」稱，最高人民法院堅持死刑二審案件必須全部開庭審理，嚴格掌握並統一死刑適用標準，確保死刑只適用於極少數罪行極其嚴重的犯罪分子。
「報告」強調，必須按照寬嚴相濟刑事政策的要求，對具有法定、酌定從輕、減輕情節的，依法從輕或者減輕處罰；不是必須判處死刑立即執行的，均依法判處死刑緩期2年執行。
在此之前，中國大陸處理死刑覆核案件時，不必然是公開開庭審理。

Taiwan's Death-Penalty Debate Could Influence Asia 

APRIL 15, 2011, 8:49 PM HKT 

The ongoing debate in Taiwan about capital punishment could influence China and its other East Asian neighbors, according to a report from human-rights organization Dui Hua Foundation.

Although more than 70% of Taiwanese support capital punishment, debate about it came to the fore this year when president Ma Ying-jeou apologized in January for the wrongful execution of a soldier for the murder of a child in 1996. The government also executed five prisoners without notifying their families in March.

The executions attracted condemnation from the European Union and advocacy groups, and marked the second time Taiwan executed convicts following an informal four-year moratorium.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011

Death Penalty Trends in Asia Have Possible Implications for China

In Asia, the latest controversy over the use of the death penalty erupted not in mainland China but across the strait in Taiwan. In January, the defense ministry there was forced to issue a public apology for a wrongful execution in 1997, followed in early March by the execution of five prisoners without notifying their families.

Advocacy groups decried the executions, the European Union expressed its revulsion, and protests broke out. Taiwan's leadership has responded defiantly. In late March, President Ma Ying-jeou announced that Taiwan would keep carrying out executions of death row inmates as its laws mandate but that the government, which has reduced the use of the death penalty, maintains a policy to phase it out through existing laws and regulations-as in the recent replacement of mandated death sentences with discretionary sentencing.

編按：千里達與托巴哥（Trinidad & Tobago）恢復死刑的憲法修正案被打回票。在千里達與托巴哥，以恢復死刑為目的的法案在2011年2月28日下午被打回票了。票數為29人贊成、11人反對，他們至少需要31票（在眾議院四分之三的票數），才能批准這項修正案。這是另一個在加勒比海地區防堵死刑恢復的重要一步。（編譯：馬克斯）

絞刑法案失利
2011/2/28

2011年政府在嘗試通過死刑憲法修正案的過程中接連落敗。此修正案在今天下午兩點四十分在眾議院進行表決。29人贊成、11人反對，沒有棄權票，這個法案需要至少31票的特別多數才能使它通過。政府已做出兩項讓步以獲得反對黨的支持。稍早時候法務部長Prakash Ramadhar說：如果國家行動人民黨（PNM）投下反對票，政府將會改正反對黨所提出的缺失，再提交此法案。同一項法案要六個月後才能再次提交至眾議院。