During the judicial practice for over 20 years,the transfer of the approval authority of death penalty to the local units proved that it has many disadvantages,especially the contempt for the right of life.

The approval authority of death penalty is the central problem of checking death penalty as well as the central embodiment of the State s judicial authority.

This article begins from the positioning of function of death penalty checking program and delivers the withdrawal of death penalty approval authority by the Supreme Court.

The Immovable Bonds Look on coldly the supreme court s taking back the power of rechecking death penalty;

The death penalty checking system has evolved to the death penalty trial system for two thousand year s development from Han to Qing Dynasties.

For macroscopic and long-term consideration,the system of examining last instance three times including death penalty checking should be constructed.

The power of judicial review of death sentences has been taken back to the Supreme Court through years efforts by both theory and practice circles.

Procedure for judicial review of death sentences, as a specialprocedure independent from the procedure of the secondinstance being the final instance, is unique in the world judicialsystem, and is the last procedural protective screen whileChina adopts death sentences cautiously.