Legal basis: Article 593 of the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Procuratorate. If the parties, their legal representatives and close relatives believe that the legally effective criminal judgment or ruling of the people's court is indeed wrong and lodge a complaint with the people's procuratorate, the criminal complaint procuratorial department of the people's procuratorate at the same level of the people's court that made the effective judgment or ruling shall handle it according to law. If the parties concerned and their legal representatives or close relatives directly appeal to the people's procuratorate at a higher level, the people's procuratorate at a higher level may submit the appeal to the people's procuratorate at the same level of the people's court that made the effective judgment or ruling; If the case is serious, difficult or complicated, the people's procuratorate at a higher level may directly accept it. If the parties, their legal representatives and close relatives lodge a complaint against the legally effective judgment or ruling of the people's court, and the people's procuratorate decides not to protest after review, the people's procuratorate at the next higher level shall accept it. The appeal against the final judgment or ruling that the people's court has sentenced to death has not been executed shall be handled by the prison procuratorial department.