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Robert Blecker is an American academic, lawyer, prosecutor and professor of Law at New York Law School.[1] 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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  1. ^ "New York Law School :: Robert Blecker". 2013-09-02. Archived from the original on 2013-09-02. Retrieved 2024-03-02.


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