死刑覆奏制度作为中国古代司法活动中一项很具特色的法律程序,具有约束滥用死刑的作用。在漫长的司法实践中,死刑覆奏制度逐渐形成一套完整的操作程序,它体现了统治阶级慎刑的思想,对死刑的适用起到一定程度的限制和监督。 As a unique legal procedure in the judicial activities in ancient China, the system of execution of death penalty has the function of restraining and abusing the death penalty. In the long judicial practice, the system of execution of death penalty gradually formed a complete set of operational procedures, which embodied the idea of ​​the ruling penalty of the ruling class and restricted and supervised the application of the death penalty to a certain extent.