Robert Blecker

Robert Blecker, Professor of Law at New York Law School and subject of new documentary film "Robert

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More Perfect: Cruel and Unusual

Thursday, August 08, 2019

We explore three little words embedded in the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: “cruel and unusual.”
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Punishment that Fits

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Robert Blecker, New York Law School professor, death penalty advocate and author of The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice among the Worst of the Worst (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), says his research in prisons shows that punishment is perversely practiced today where the worst criminals often live under better circumstances than those with more hope for rehabilitation. While he supports the death penalty, he argues that harsher treatment for those convicted of the worst crimes could make it less likely to be imposed.

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The unlikely friendship of a death penalty advocate and a condemned killer

Monday, March 02, 2009

When most lawyers debate the death penalty, they do it in a court room. Robert Blecker may be the only lawyer who goes into prisons and debates the death penalty with the residents of...

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