死刑,也称生命刑,指剥夺犯罪分子生命的刑罚。德国刑法学家拉德布鲁赫将死刑概括为最冷酷、最无慈悲的“司法杀人”。在我国目前现阶段,限制死刑成为一个亟待解决的现实问题,如何把握好死刑的范围和限度,是建设社会主义法治国家的重要环节。 Death penalty, also known as life penalty, refers to deprivation of criminal life penalty. German criminal justice Radbruch summed up the death sentence as the most cold, most compassionate “judicial killings.” At the present stage of our country, restricting the death penalty has become a real problem to be solved urgently. How to grasp the scope and limit of the death penalty is an important link in building a socialist country ruled by law.