| "Criminal Law Amendment (ix)" for the first time established a system of life imprisonment in common law countries, life imprisonment is an independent kinds of punishment, and our legal system of life imprisonment, is to be sentenced to death for Bribery offenders in its test phase life imprisonment after the expiration phase, according to the court to decide the case on its commuted to life imprisonment or a penalty and penal enforcement measures discretionary parole allowed apply. Establishing life imprisonment system, in order to form at this stage to fight against corruption, atmosphere and less criminal policy of the death penalty and match. After changing the arch corrupt huge bribes was sentenced to short prison term phenomenon important measure implemented.Although, in our history, there have been no "free lifelong punishment" specialized terminology such, the measures of deprivation of liberty for life is an objective reality, which can be traced back to the slave period. Western countries, according to the criminal origin of the lifelong free information is also very limited, but written about the lifelong free sentence in ancient Western society recognized three landmark legislation that is Roman law, canon law, Germanic law can still find little trace. Due to social and economic development and the continuous improvement of the level of civilization, the abolition of the death penalty and limit the voice of increasingly high, life imprisonment sentence on a global scale is large-scale application. With the maturity of life imprisonment sentence in the theory and practice of operating system, and its penalty structure in many countries are playing an increasingly important role. Many countries based on different classification criteria to life imprisonment into additional restrictions and without restrictions, absolute and discretionary, forced labor and forced labor are not.Chinese criminal law to life imprisonment, the penalty is not a new species, but dependent on death row to life imprisonment system and enforcement system exists only for a particular corruption, bribery discretionary punishment and enforcement measures of crime. Establishing life imprisonment in China’s criminal law system in rationality in that it theoretically implement the principle of suiting punishment to ensure our reasonable penalty structure is conducive to achieve the purpose of punishment; victimizes injustice avoid having to kill in practice, the rehabilitation of offenders, preservation, access to evidence, deter crime, in favor of the value of international cooperation.However, due to life imprisonment the death penalty system is used with caution and balanced outcome of the high-pressure dual anti-corruption context, so life in prison system in our country there are still some deficiencies. It is suitable for conditions not stringent enough, the applicable standard is not very clear for people to approach concerns, problems applicable time. Therefore we need to make to improve the system of life imprisonment for the basic idea that it continues to refine the content of the existing system of life imprisonment; expand the scope of the system of life imprisonment, which was extended to apply to the eight categories of crime commutation limit, the criminal law amendment text of the decision to apply the death penalty in the judicial practice little but substantially higher levels of crime of bribery attempts applicable to life imprisonment in the future, in addition to the harsh nature of its investigation into the offense also apply to the list is not can not of. And also put forward concrete measures to improve that improve the existing corruption for the crime of bribery to life imprisonment; the object is extended to the implementation of the eight categories of violent crime are limited commutation, parole offenders; perfect Audience of life imprisonment system; and to life imprisonment with Amnesty and other remedies to improve life in prison system in our country, give full play to the positive role of the system. |