EXPERT
ADVISORY
NEW YORK, NY
(February 11, 2002) - New York Law School Professor Robert Blecker, nationally
known retributivist advocate of the death penalty, is available to offer expert
commentary on the new Liebman study released Monday, February 11. The study by
Columbia Law Professor James Liebman prefers abolition but allows for the death
penalty in the 'worst of the worst” cases – exceedingly vicious and callous
killers – a conclusion that Professor Blecker has long advocated based on his 13
years interviewing convicted killers. Professor Blecker makes a powerful case
for the death penalty as retribution, but only for the worst of the
worst.
Professor
Blecker was the subject of a front-page essay in The Washington Post, Outlook
Section (December 3, 2000), and of a profile in the The New York Times. Blecker
has appeared on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, Court TV, CNN, and other
national media outlets. His forthcoming book, The Worst of the Worst: Who
Deserves to Die (Basic Books, 2003), will be the first book since 1979 to
advocate the death penalty.
Professor
Blecker teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional History, Criminals and Our Urge to
Punish Them, and Sentencing at New York Law School. A former anti-corruption
prosecutor, Harvard Fellow in Law and Humanities, and playwright, Professor
Blecker's publications include: 'Haven or Hell? Inside Lorton Prison,” Stanford
Law Review, as well as articles in Penthouse, the National Law Journal, and The
Nation. In fall 2000, Prof. Blecker co-taught a course, Death Penalty, at New
York Law School with Marty McClain, a prominent capital defender. His play
"Vote NO!,” an anti-federalist case against adopting the Constitution, premiered
in 1987 at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Prof. Blecker is a graduate of
Harvard Law School and Tufts University.
Professor
Blecker can be reached at work at (212) 431-2873 or at home at (516) 365-7180.
In the alternative, please contact Alta Levat in the Office of Public Affairs
at New York Law School, (212)
431-2325, alevat@nyls.edu.
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Law School, old.nyls.edu, is one of the oldest
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