The death penalty was extreme penalty deprivation of human life. Nowadays，restrict and abolish the death penalty has become an internationally recognized trend. Since the United Nations General Assembly in 1989 passed the Second Optional Protocol to the “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights，” the international community has made significant progress in restricting the death penalty and the abolition of the death penalty，the state abolished the death penalty has now reached over 160. The constitution and laws in China attaches great importance to the guarantee of citizens’ right to life，for the death penalty is the basic policy of “retain the death penalty，strict restrict to death penalty，prevent the wrong death sentence”. To the right of life is more and more attention，our government by law and strictly restrict the death penalty in the judicial reform to the attention of the right of life to guide society.