Abstract: Procedure for judicial review of death sentences, as a procedural protection of death sentences control, exhibits many problems because of part decentralization of authority of examination and approval and non-litigation character of procedure for judicial review of death sentences. As a result, the procedure loses the role in procedural protection and have disadvantage in protecting legal rights of the accused. From the angle of procedural protection to the legal rights of the accused, this passage suggests that procedure for judicial review of death sentences should be reformed with litigation and put forward the basic principles of the reform.