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Death penalty has no alternative. Life without parole (LWOP) has been put forward to nullify the death penalty in China. Practically speaking, LWOP can satisfy the emotional demand of the public so as to nullify the death penalty. LWOP has strong rationales from both retributive and preventive perspectives. Actually, the relation between death penalty and LWOP is just a question, which should be at the top level punishment. Compared with death penalty, LWOP has other advantages such as lower cost burden and more practicability.
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Lifeng Li, Ph.D in law (Jilin University), is affiliated to School of Law, Jilin University. His research is focused on criminal law. He has one monograph published, i.e., 美国刑法犯意研究 (Research on the Mens Rea in American Criminal Law, 2009); and co-edited three books. He has over 20 articles published in periodicals, such as: 美国刑法中主观罪过表现形式初探 (Research on Mental Elements of Crime in American Criminal Law, 2004), 美国刑法理论 中的“南顿”规则 (The M’Naghten Rule in the American Criminal Law Theory, 2007), 欧盟的刑法? 以欧洲法院判例为视角 (A Unified Criminal Law for EU? In the Perspective of ECJ, 2008).
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Li, L. Sentence of life without parole: Proposal for the revision of Chinese criminal law in the context of the elimination of death penalty. Front. Law China 5, 424–434 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11463-010-0105-1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11463-010-0105-1