近些年来,死刑问题一直备受法律学者们的关注。尽管关于死刑的话题已经在理论界讨论较多,然而我们却并不能因此抹煞死刑问题依然是个“热点问题”这一事实。本期热点笔谈特组织四篇文章从死刑与民意、死刑废止的根本动力、死刑与人道主义的关系等角度再次展开讨论,以飨读者。 In recent years, the death penalty has always been the concern of legal scholars. Although the topic of death penalty has been discussed more in the theoretical circles, we can not therefore deny the fact that the death penalty problem remains a “hot issue.” In this issue, the four articles of the Pentecost Organization are reopened from the perspectives of the death penalty and public opinion, the fundamental motive force for the abolition of the death penalty, and the relationship between death penalty and humanitarianism.