# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第四百四十二条 (Article 442) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-442. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 刑事訴訟法 (Code of Criminal Procedure), 昭和二十三年法律第百三十一号 - English title "Code of Criminal Procedure": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第四百四十二条 (Article 442) — address `art-442` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-442 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四百四十二条 art-442 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-442 **第一項** 再審の請求は、刑の執行を停止する効力を有しない。ただし、管轄裁判所に対応する検察庁の検察官は、再審の判決が確定するまで刑の執行を停止することができる。 art-442/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-442/par-1 The request for a retrial shall have no effect to suspend the execution of sentence; provided, however, that the public prosecutor of the public prosecutor's office corresponding to the competent court may suspend the execution of sentence until the judgment in the retrial becomes final and binding. machine translation, not official **第二項** 管轄裁判所に対応する検察庁の検察官は、前項ただし書の規定により死刑の執行を停止したときは、刑法第十一条第二項の規定による拘置を停止することができる。 art-442/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-442/par-2 When a public prosecutor of the public prosecutor's office corresponding to the competent court has suspended the execution of the death penalty pursuant to the proviso to the preceding paragraph, the public prosecutor may suspend confinement under Article 11, paragraph (2) of the Penal Code. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-442/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第四百四十二条第一項 (Article 442, paragraph (1)), art-442/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-442/par-1 - art-442/par-2: 刑法第十一条第二項 → 刑法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/penal-code/art-11/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 140AC0000000045) ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第四百四十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-442/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 刑事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-10-20 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000131/20261020_508AC0000000067), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-015, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06