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限制减刑是对死缓被告人缓期期满减刑后实际执行刑期的提前预设，是我国《刑法修正案（八）》对死缓制度增加的一项全新的内容，尽管其在实质内容上属于减刑问题，但其性质应当属于死缓制度的范畴。刑法规定了该项刑罚制度的适用条件，最高法院对其适用的程序进行了必要的规定，但对限制减刑的最高期限则给法官留下了充分的自由裁量权，需要进行进一步规范，以发挥其对死缓罪犯特殊预防的功能。
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For the defendant of the death sentence reprieve, the limited commutation is the preset in advance of the actual executed prison term after the commutation of which the reprieve expires. The limited commutation is a new content which is added to the system of the death sentence reprieve in the Amendment 8 of our Criminal Law. Although it belongs to the commutation problem in substance, its nature shall be part of the domain of the death sen- tence reprieve. Criminal Law prescribes applicable conditions of this penalty system. The supreme people ＇s court makes the necessary provisions of its applicable procedures, but it gives judges sufficient discretions of the maximum of the limited commutation. As a result, it needs to further standardize in order to play the function of its individual prevention for the criminals of the death sentence reprieve.