摘要:目前我国对死刑无论是立法、司法还是执行上都持紧缩、宽缓的态度，并且进一步减少死刑条款，增加自由刑量刑幅度。显然我国死刑制度得适用经过《刑法修正案（八）》的部分调整有所进步，但仍然落后于世界刑法发展水平，存在着一些不可忽视的问题。在死刑与人权问题紧密结合的情况下，进一步控制死刑制度的适用已成为大势所趋、当务之急。因此，研究我国死刑制度适用有十分重大的理论价值和实践意义。本文从研究我国死刑制度适用的必要性出发，分析我国死刑制度适用过程中存在的主要问题，并借鉴国外先进死刑制度适用的经验，提出完善我国死刑制度适用的建议。

关键词：限制死刑；死刑复核；无罪推定；保护人权

Abstract:China on the death penalty, whether legislative, judicial or enforcement which the attitude is hold tight, wide and gentle, and to further reduce the death penalty provisions, increasing the magnitude of free criminal sentencing. Obviously China's death penalty system has undergone a partial adjustment of <Amendment Ⅷ to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China> some progress, but still far behind the level of the development in the world. There are some problems can not be ignored. In the case of the death penalty and human rights are closely integrated, to further control the application of the death penalty system has become the trend of the times, it is imperative. Therefore, the study of China's death penalty system applicable to a very great theoretical value and practical significance. This paper studies China's death penalty system is the necessity, analysis of China's death penalty system applicable to the major problems in the process of. In addition this paper draws lessons from the foreign advanced experience of death penalty application. To put forward the proposal to improve China's death penalty system applies.

Key words: Reduction of death penalty; The limitation of death penalty; the death penalty review; presumption of innocence; the protection of human rights

　　　我国是目前世界上保留死刑制度的国家之一，同时也是死刑罪名最多的国家之一。受我国具体国情、文化传统、民意、司法状况和经济状况等因素的制约，现阶段死刑在我国刑法领域的存在仍是必要的。死刑不同于其它刑罚方法，其剥夺的是人的生命，人的生命权具有与其它权利不同的特性，这些特性决定了死刑制度适用必需比其他类型刑事案件更加慎重、严谨，有必要对此进行全面理论研究。