近日,山东聊城一少年刺伤侮辱其母的讨债者致其死亡一案引发社会舆论轩然大波。鉴于该案的上诉还在受理之中,最高人民检察院的调查工作也尚在进行,我们不便就一审判决是否得当等法律专业问题作出判断,只谈谈“高利贷”问题。高利贷问题亘古有之,国家试图通过规定借贷利率上限等方式遏制高利贷行为、保护债权人权益的做法,也亘古有之。公元前1754年古巴比伦的《汉谟拉比法典》就有世界现存最早的相关规定:借出白银最多可收取约合20%的 Recently, a young boy in Liaocheng, Shandong province, stabbed and insulted his mother’s debt-relief case and caused his death, causing public opinion to an uproar. In view of the admissibility of the case is still being accepted, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate’s investigation is still ongoing, we inconvenience to judge the legal basis of the first instance judgments and other issues to make judgments, only to talk about “loan shark ” issue. Ushering in the problem of usury, the state tried to curb usury behavior and protect the rights and interests of creditors by stipulating the upper limit of the loan interest rate. Ancient Babylon in 1754 BC “Hammurabi Code” there is the world’s earliest existing relevant provisions: the maximum amount of silver can be collected about 20% of the