The Influence of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the Death Penalty Legislation in China

摘要

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provides International guidelines that strictly limit the application of the death penalty and ultimately abolish the death penalty. Generally speaking, China's death penalty legislation is basically consistent with the provisions of the Covenant, but there are still gaps with it in some specific provisions. In order to better link with the Covenant, the crimes and targets applicable to the death penalty should be reduced, and the system of death penalty with reprieve should be improved, so that the death penalty legislation of our country can be coordinated with international human rights standards.