On Improvement of Judicial Review Process in Death Penalty

The examination and approval procedure of death penalty is a unique and special procedure in our criminal procedure.Although the Supreme People's Court has taken back the examination and approval power of death penalty since 2007,the function of the examination and approval procedure of death penalty still could not work efficiently.A series of recent cases make the examination and approval procedure of death penalty attract increasing concern in China,and the perfection of this procedure will duely become one of the contents of the amendment of the Criminal Procedural Law.