In the blink of an eye, it was the Spring Festival again, and the wanderers who were outside also returned home and family groups. No matter how busy the New Year is, it is also useful, everyone sits together to roast the fire and nags, it is really an indescribable sense of happiness. But there are still a small number of people who can't go home to reunite because they can't help themselves, such as the death row inmates in prisons.
We know that the death penalty is also called capital punishment. Generally speaking, it is only executed by people who have committed major criminal cases, such as intentional homicide, kidnapping, robbery, drug trafficking, etc. when they cause serious adverse effects and endanger the national criminal law.
Some can be said to be extremely cruel, such as the Ten Great Tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which everyone often hears about in novels, which is real. The content includes waist chops, car cracks, ju five punishments, Ling Chi and other chilling execution methods. But with the progress of the times, the inhuman systems formed under these feudal dynasties have become the dust of history.
However, it is very strange that in general, death row inmates cannot be paroleed and return home, even for the Spring Festival. Because some prisoners themselves have violent tendencies to lead to crime, once released, they do not know what kind of disaster will be created. But in ancient times, a special case occurred.
The Zizhi Tongjian records that in the sixth year of Zhenguan (632), Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, suddenly made a decision that shocked both the Manchu Dynasty and the wen and wu, and he demanded the release of the 390 death row felons held in prison, and released all of them to go home for the New Year, and the following spring he returned to receive death.
Come back and die yourself? Are you Li Shimin a fool when you are a hundred officials, or are you a fool for the prisoners? When the ministers heard Li Shimin's thought, they almost didn't hold themselves out of their internal wounds, and they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. But he still did not dare to have an opinion, otherwise he would soon become one of the death row prisoners.
Well, the year is over. Hundred officials got up early to go to the court to see Li Shimin's school flowers, this guy engaged in a zhenguan rule can not be a life, thinking that he is a god, this death row prisoners have been released can still come back? Finally, I could see Li Shimin's stunned appearance, but what surprised the hundred officials was that these death row prisoners who had returned home for the New Year had all returned one after another!
The New Book of Tang and the Chronicle of The Penal Code records that", at the end of the Xin Dynasty, the emperor was a prisoner, and when he saw the deceased, Min Zhi, he returned home and died in the autumn. Still the death row inmates of the world, all of them are dispatched, so that they can come to the Capital Division. "In the past year, there were three hundred and ninety death row prisoners in the world, and there was no one to supervise them, all of whom were self-proclaimed as scheduled, and none of them died in hiding."
This is not something that the editor made up blindly, but is recorded in real historical records. Li Shimin also nodded satisfactorily and said: Since these death row inmates can come back to be tortured, even if they have died once, it also means that they have realized their mistakes and let all 390 people go, and everyone even prostrated their heads in thanksgiving.
Have you found that this is very similar to the "death suspension" in the modern death penalty system, which refers to criminals who should be sentenced to death but must be executed immediately. It is suspended for two years, during which labor reform will be implemented, and if the performance is good, it can be converted to indefinite, and if the performance is good, it can be changed to a period. Generally speaking, after meeting certain basic conditions, after a series of approvals, they are also able to go home to visit relatives.