The Supreme People’s Court has taken the authority of reviewing capital cases back to itself to exercise unified, it makes the review procedure of death penalty standard and perfect gradually.

The procedure of judicial review of death sentence that our country takes has played a certain role in guaranteeing the quality of capital cases,but there are a lot of drawbacks in its own,so the author proposes cancell.

In capital cases, the relatives of the victim is difficult to achieve the aim of revenge by way of the sentence procedure, and can hardly acquire the deserved compensation by way of the criminal accessory civil proceeding, and unable to get the judicial assistance, which cause the relatives of the victim can not take the criminal procedure reasonably.

With The Supreme People s Court Withdrawing the Death Penalty Approval Power,capital cases becomes an important contents in procuratorial organ practice and research.

Three aspects were included in this questionnaire:the subjects\' understanding of the operation of the procedures of the second instance of death penalty cases,law professionals\' thoughts on the operation of the procedures of the second instance of death penalty cases,and the general public and termers\' understanding of the human rights protection of parties in the trial of death penalty cases.