Based on the actuality and problems of the criminal executive power configuration, optimizing the criminal executive power configuration should follow these principles, such as maintaining the balance between power and efficiency, punishment and protection of human rights, being exercised openly and socially. The proposed improvements include the establishment of a sound criminal executive powers configuration system of legal norms, establishing integrated management system of criminal executive power, innovating the ways of exercising criminal executive power, reforming commutation and parole procedure, and strengthening the function of prosecutorial supervision in exercise of criminal executive power.