摘 要:
美国最高法院在1972年曾经宣布暂停死刑执行,但是在1976年又恢复了死刑的执行,目前美国是唯一仍然保留并适用死刑的所谓西方文明国家。美国联邦系统和38个州的刑法都规定了死刑,可以适用死刑的罪行还比较多,但是罪名相对比较集中;死刑诉讼程序严格且复杂;相对于美国庞大的犯罪数字,尤其是暴力犯罪而言。其死刑判决和实际执行死刑数量仍属较低;美国死刑执行方式呈现为以注射方式为主多种执行方法并存的特点。美国死刑程序复杂但是死刑错判率仍然较高。[著者文摘]
文章出处:
《时代法学》-2007年5卷5期 -95-101页
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文章编号:
1672-769X(2007)05-0095-07
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The Death Penalty in the United States of American
TANG Shi-yue (Party School of the CCP's Hunan Province Committee, Hunan Civil Servant College, Changsha,Hunan 410006, China)
Abstract:
Although in 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court's decision temporarily halted the imposition of the death penalty, the capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. The U.S.A, is the only country that reserved death penalty for the most aggravated crimes in the western civilization countries. Currently, thirty-nine states as well as the federal government have statutes providing for capital punishment, but the death penalty mostly was applied to the most serious murder. The death penalty case's procedure is more strictly and intricate than no-death penalty case' s, and there are many methods of execution in the American.[著者文摘]
Key words:
the death penalty; the system of criminal justice ; the american system of criminal justice

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