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'Blecker' Deftly Stands Alone On Both Sides Of Death Penalty

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That's the title of Hank Stuever's review of, "Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead," in the Washington Post.  LINK "Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead" wants to be a documentary about the vast amount of wiggle room between being for the death penalty and being against it. And it fascinatingly is that. But on a deeper level (and a skillfully conscious one on the part of filmmaker Ted Schillinger) it's a portrait of two men's utter loneliness in their thoughts. Blecker, a New York Law School professor, supports the death penalty on such a contrary and nuanced level -- he calls himself an "emotional retributivist" -- that it has set him apart from both sides of the debate and a large swath of the legal realm...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).