A Study On The Effective Defense Of Death Penalty Cases

China is one of the countries that retain the death penalty and have much of death-penalty application, and had signed the United Nations’ International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 6 of the Convention advocate to abolish the death penalty, and the death penalty just for the most serious crimes in which has not abolished the death penalty, so death penalty cases should be strictly controlled. However, there is much of judicial chaos, such as judicial irregularities, victims-slapstick and so on, which affected the Justice seriously, and greatly damaged the legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants. So effective defense is very important in death penalty cases.It is critical that how to improve the effect of defense in order to maximize the legitimate rights and interests of suspects and defendants in death cases and which is urgent problem for death penalty cases.This paper describes the death cases and effective defense of death cases, and proposed the standards of effective defense. The author combines with practical experience elaborate the reasons that affect the effective defense from presumption of guilt ideas, judicial committee, pressure from victims and prisoner’s dilemma. The paper table the proposal from procedure, evidence and media monitoring, which in order to increase the defense effect of death cases. And better implement the Criminal Policy and Spirit of the legislation.