Legal analysis: life imprisonment is the need to improve the corruption governance mechanism. Life imprisonment came into being in the deepening period of social transformation in China. The deepening of the comprehensive and strict administration of the party and the anti-corruption struggle and the continuous advancement of the legislative reform of the death penalty are the background for the establishment of the life imprisonment system and the objective basis for accurately positioning its anti-corruption function. On the one hand, comprehensive governance and deepening governance are the distinctive features of punishing corruption in China since the 18th CPC National Congress. Strengthening and optimizing the corruption governance mechanism puts forward new and higher requirements for improving the criminal governance mechanism of major corruption crimes. As the most extreme form of corruption, the crime of corruption and bribery is the top priority of corruption governance and innovation of governance mechanism. On the other hand, as the focus of China's penal reform since the 20th century, the death penalty reform is being comprehensively deepened and promoted. The policy of narrowing the legal network of the death penalty, retaining the death penalty and strictly controlling the death penalty has greatly reduced the applicable space of the death penalty. Whether the crime of corruption and bribery should continue to retain the death penalty in legislation is facing more and more doubts. At present, it is difficult to abolish the death penalty directly in legislation, whether based on public opinion or the needs of national corruption governance. Life imprisonment, as a special measure to deal with particularly serious corruption and bribery crimes, can not only play the role of declaring the death penalty and severely punishing corruption, but also further promote the implementation of the applicable policy of retaining the death penalty and strictly controlling the death penalty in China at the judicial level.
Legal basis: Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Article 44 The term of criminal detention shall be counted from the date of execution of the judgment; If a person is detained before the execution of the judgment, one day of detention shall be reduced to one day of imprisonment.
Article 45 The term of fixed-term imprisonment shall be not less than six months but not more than fifteen years, except as provided for in Articles 50 and 69 of this Law.
Article 46 A criminal sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or life imprisonment shall be executed in a prison or other execution place; Anyone who has the ability to work should take part in labor, receive education and reform.