Robert Blecker

Robert Blecker is an American academic, lawyer, prosecutor and professor of Law at New York Law School. He is well known as a defender of the death penalty. Philosophically, Blecker is a retributivist, and is a public advocate for this theory of punishment.

Blecker was featured in the documentary Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead, which documents his personal relationship with death-row inmate and convicted mass murderer Daryl Holton.

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