宋代刑讯制度及其实践

在中国古代司法审判中，当事人的口供是法官定罪结案的最高决定性证据，这一诉讼传统使刑讯逼供成为司法领域内不可避免的现象。为防止因此而造成冤假错案，早在西周，就有刑讯立法，发展至唐朝渐趋完备，宋代又承前出新，确立了刑讯实施详备规范和非法刑讯法律责任，最终形成了完善的刑讯制度。但是，在实践中，宋代法官刑讯逼供，滥施刑讯，屡见不鲜，成为社会痼疾。

Inquisition by Torture System and Its Practice in Song Dynasty

In ancient litigation of China,the parties oral confession was the supreme decisive evidence for conviction or not,and only prerequisite condition for finishing a case,so the extorting confessions by torture became a inevitable phenomenon.To prevent the resulting trumped-up case,back in Western Zhou Dynasty,there was inquisition by torture legislation,to the Tang Dynasty it was more mature.In Song Dynasty,it established detailed standards for the implementation of inquisition by torture and illegal torture ...