The death penalty review procedure is a special trial procedure followed by the people's court when reviewing and approving death penalty cases. The death penalty is a penalty that deprives criminals of their lives, and it is the most severe of all kinds of penalties stipulated in the criminal law, which is called capital punishment. On the one hand, the law of China regards the death penalty as a powerful weapon to fight crime and protect people, on the other hand, it emphasizes strict control of the application of the death penalty. Therefore, in addition to the restrictive requirement that the death penalty is not applicable to minors and pregnant women in the substantive law, the procedural law also stipulates a special examination and approval procedure-the death penalty review procedure.
The procedure of death penalty review refers to the steps, ways and methods that people's courts should follow when reporting cases sentenced to death to people's courts with the power of death penalty approval. This is a special procedure.