2. The rights of criminal suspects: The lawyer entrusted by the death penalty criminal suspect is based on the basic rights given to the defendant by law, and at the same time gives the lawyer due responsibilities to the parties.
3. The significance of defending death row inmates: In addition to protecting the right to life of death row inmates, it is more important to embody the justice of the law. Therefore, the law clearly stipulates that "if a criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death penalty and fails to entrust a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him".
4. Prevent unjust, false and misjudged cases: truly provide defense for death penalty suspects, ensure the correctness of public prosecution and trial, and prevent unjust, false and misjudged cases.
5. Death row is a court that takes the law as the criterion and deprives criminal suspects of their right to life according to criminal evidence. But only his right to life has been seized, and he should also have other inviolable rights and enjoy the right to defense.
Legal basis:
Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 11 The people's courts shall hear cases in public, except as otherwise provided in this Law. The defendant has the right to be defended, and the people's court has the obligation to ensure that the defendant is defended.
Article 12 No one shall be found guilty without a judgment of the people's court according to law.
Article 35 If a criminal suspect or defendant fails to appoint a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons, he or his near relatives may apply to a legal aid institution. To meet the conditions of legal aid, legal aid institutions shall appoint lawyers to defend them. If the criminal suspect or defendant is a mental patient who is blind, deaf, dumb or has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior, and has not entrusted a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him. If a criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death without entrusting a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him.