东野圭吾是日本的著名的当代推理小说作家,是推理小说界“新社会派”的代表人物,他的作品关注社会问题,具有较强的批判性和时代感,且构思巧妙,所推出的作品总是让人惊喜连连,却又让人深思。近几年关于是否要废除死刑的讨论日益高涨,《虚无的十字架》是东野圭吾一部关于探讨是否要废除死刑的作品,是让犯人听到自己的死刑宣判而感到解脱,还是让他重返自由社会用尽一生赎罪?这值得让人思考。本文尝试从罪与罚的角度来对《虚无的十字架》进行分析。 Higashino Keigo is a famous Japanese writer of contemporary inference fiction and a representative of the “New Socialist” in the field of reasoning and fiction. His works focus on social issues with a strong sense of the critical and the contemporary The work is always surprising people, but it makes people think deeply. In recent years there has been a growing discussion about whether to abolish the death penalty. The “nothingness of the cross” is Higuchi Keigo’s work on whether to abolish the death penalty, to allow prisoners to feel liberated after hearing their death sentence, or to let him return Free society exhausted life atonement? This is worth thinking. This article attempts to analyze the “nothingness of the cross” from the perspective of sin and punishment.