Pardon System Research

Pardon is one system to remit your penalty, which has enormous valuable examples existing in ancient and modern, home and abroad records. It plays a crucial role in adjusting internal interest conflicts, balancing the social relations, comforting the public mood, saving judicial resources etc. At the beginning of the PRC’s founding, Special pardon showed great importance in solving the issues left over from wars. However, within the 40 years before the Chairman issuing the decree of special pardon, the amnesty was fading into the ivory tower. On the aspect of legislation, there are no particular articles of law to demonstrate it, only in some department laws. No matter how well the special pardon performs in legislation or practice, it will not be the excuse to deny special pardon’s significance. Based on’Special Pardon system is beneficial for legal system and national major policies’, this paper tries to construct relatively completed theoretical frame and propose some thoughts that may perfect and reconstruct the pardon system through observations, researches and analysis into special pardon system, and finally aims to give impetus to the development of special pardon system.