Media

 

• Opeds
• Profiles
• Quotes

Opeds

• National Post, “Should a Murder Who Kills Under the Influence Be Subject to the Death Penalty?” (1/29/14)
• National Post, “Prison Interviews with Innocent Men” (1/29/14)
• National Post, “Blecker: Why Chose to Serve Evil” (1/27/14)
• Politics.co.uk, “We Support the Death Penalty Because We Feel Compassion for Mankind” (12/10/13)
• New York Daily News, “This Is Not Justice” (12/1/13)
• The Hartford Courant, “Life Sentence Doesn’t Deliver Punishment” (11/18/13)
• CNN, “With Death Penalty, Let Punishment Fit the Crime” (08/22/13)
• The Hartford Courant, “When We Can’t Kill Those Who Deserve To Die” (4/1/12)
• City Journal, “Permanent Punitive Segration” (Fall 2012)
• The Daily Report,  “The Pack That Cried Wolf”  (12/16/2011)
• The Tennessean, “Other Views: Drug Method Errs By Avoiding Pain” (11/28/11)
• New York Post,  “Death is Only Justice” (3/30/11)
• The New York Times, “Is Death Row a Form of Psychological Torment”  (Ltr)(11/07/2011)
• The Hartford Courant, “Why Joshua Komisarjevski Must Die”  (10/25/2011)
• Houston Chronicle, “Lets Break the Impasse on Death Penalty” (with James S. Liebman) (5/25/2003)
• The New York Law Journal, “To Live or Die” (September 2002)
• The Hartford Courant, “‘God Love Him’?” (2/6/05)
• The New York Law Journal, “Who Deserves to Die? A Time to Reconsider” (7/22/04)
• The New York Law Journal, “The Right Way Out” ( 12/16/98) (Clinton impeachment)
• The Wall Street Journal , “How Does Congress Define Perjury” (12/9/98)
• The New York Law Journal, The Lawyer’s Bookshelf: “When the States Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition”  (Book review)
• Penthouse, “How to Fight Corruption and Keep Our Freedom” (March 1985)
• Connoisseur, “The Next House of Justice” (July 1984)

 

Profiles

• Prague Post, Bill Cunningham, “Death Penalty Advocate Speaks Out: U.S.-Based Blecker Leads Discussion at Prague University” (5/16/12)
• New York Times, Lynda Richardson, “Murder Most Foul, or Just Plain Wrong: Professor Calculates Which Killers Should Pay the Ultimate Price” (3/20/01)
• New York Times, Jeremy W, Peters, “Film: An Advocate of Killing Learns From One” (3/1/09)
• The Philadelphia Daily News, Jill Porter, “He’d Refine Death Penalty-Prof Thinks Some Don’t Deserve It” (3/29/00)
• Newark Star Ledger, Robert Schwaneberg, “Prof Wants Execution Saved for “the Worst of the Worst” ( 10/12/06 )
• USA Today , Richard Willing, “Death Penalty Gains Unlikely Defenders”, (1/7/03) (cover story)
• Hartford Courant, Rick Green, “Robert Blecker: We Have a Moral Obligation to Execute” (3/3/11)
• Washington Post, “Blecker’ Deftly Stands Alone On Both Sides of Death Penalty” (03/13/09) (Front Page Arts)
• American Bar Association Journal “Law Prof Learns from Inmate in “Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead” (03/13/09)

 

Quotes

2014:

• JD Supra Business Advisor, “Is Punishment Dead in America?“
• National Post, “Jonathan Kay: Why Alleged Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, If Convicted, Deserves to Die” (2/1/14)

2013:

• The Week, “The Executioners’ Lament” (12/7/13)
• NPR, “Death Penalty Delayed But Not Denied By Drug Problems” (11/13/13)
• The Kansas City Star, “Secrecy Around Missouri Execution Drug is Drawing Criticism” (11/10/13)
• Global Post, “Execution Drugs Sparks Controversy As Supplies Dwindle” (10/10/13)
• The New York Times, Rick Lyman, “Death Row Improvises, Lacking Lethal Mix” (8/18/13)
• CNN Money, Aaron Smith, “Holder Plan Would Cut Prison Costs” (8/12/13)
• Seacoast Online, Susan Morse, “Anti-pledge Stances Historically Met With Harsh Criticism” (6/30/13)
• The Dallas Morning News, “Texas Prepares to Execute 500th Prisoner” (6/24/13)
• NPR, “The Death Penalty’s Slow but Seemingly Sure Decline” (6/21/13)
• The New York Times, J. David Goodman, “Prosecutors Face Test Proving Serious Crime in a Fatal Crash” (3/12/13)

2012:

• The Huffington Post, Brooke E. Strunsky, “The Debate Over Capital Punishment” (11/8/12)
• The Kansas City Star, “Missouri’s One Drug Execution Plan Draws Some Critical Looks”(8/20/12)
• Hot Air Green Room, Howard Portnoy, “Death Row Inmate Goes Out on Full Stomach, Ingests 29,000-Calorie Last Meal” (7/15/12)
• The New York Post, Andrea Peyser, “Murderers Laugh In State ‘Play’ Pen” (6/28/12)
• ABC News, Chris Cuomo, “Convicted Killers Often Live a Life of Pleasure, Professor Says” (6/20/12)
• The Prague Post, Benjamin Cunningham, “Death Penalty Advocate Speaks” (5/16/12)

2011:

• The New York Times, Ross Douthat, “Notes on the Death Penalty” (9/26/11)
• Richmond Times Dispatch, Frank Green “Path to Execution  Swifter, More Certain in VA” (12/04/2011)
• The New York Times, Erik Piepenburg, “Hey, Kids, Let’s Put on a Reading!” (1/21/11)

2010:

• The New York Times, William Glaberson, “In Connecticut Murder Trial, Death Penalty Advocate a Threat to the Defense” (9/3/11)
• R.G. Murphy, Voices of the Death Penalty Debate: A Citizen’s Guide to Capital Punishment (Vandeplas Publishing, 2010) (testimony before NY legislature extensively quoted)

2009:

• The New York Times, Robbie Brown, “Long Held in Capital Case, Man Sues to Get a Lawyer” (2/1/09)
• The New York Times, Nathan Lee,  “All About Robert Blecker” (2/27/09)

2008:

• BBC, “The Search for a Humane Execution” (1/14/08)
• Omaha World- Herald, “New Lethal Injection Protocol Is Possible” (2/10/08)
• The Chicago Tribune, “The Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injection” (4/16/08)
• The Sunday Republican, “Capital Punishment is on Trial in Connecticut” (1/27/08)
• The Herald, “Portillo and the Ultimate Punishment” (1/15/08)

2007:

• The New York Times Magazine, Elizabeth Weil, “ The Needle and the Damage Done” (2/11/07)
• The New York Times, Adam Liptak “Positive He’s a Killer, Less Sure He Should Die” (5/21/07)
• The New York Times, Dan Barry, “Taking the Guilt Out of the Death Penalty” (9/09/07)
• The New York Times, Adam Liptak, “SIDEBAR: Adding Method to Judging Mayhem” (4/2/07)
• The New York Times, Adam Liptak, “Court Ruling Expected to Spur Convictions in Capital Cases” (6/9/07)
• The New York Times, Alan Schwarz, “Prosecution’s Best Strategy Against Bonds Is Precise Questioning, Experts Say” ( 11/17/07)
• The New York Times, Jeremy W. Peters, “New Jersey Moves to End Death Penalty” (11/19/07)
• The New York Times, Jeremy W. Peters, “With Senate Vote, New Jersey Nears Historical Repeal of Death Penalty” (12/11/07)
• The New York Times, Jeremy W. Peters, “Revisiting Violent Past on Eve of New Jersey Death Penalty Vote” (12/10/07)
• USA Today, “Wider Death Penalty Sought”,  (2/7/07)
• Newsday, “Death Penalty Foes Hope NJ Move Inspires Others to Follow Suit”
• International Herald Tribune, “US Juries are Increasingly Reluctant to Deliver Death Sentences” (5/21/07)
• The Star-Ledger, “Christie Seeks Federal Death Penalty in Newark Slaying” (4/4/07)
• Sentinel, “ Legislators Debate Need for Capital Punishment” (12/6/07)
• Asbury Park Press, “Supporters Pan Move to End Death Penalty” (11/21/07)
• Courier News, “Opponents Blast Panel on Death Penalty” (11/21/07)
• The Star-Ledger, “A Last Ditch Appeal to Keep the Death Penalty” (11/21/07)
• The Record, “Cardinale Defends Death Penalty” (11/21/07)
• Congressional Quarterly, “The Capital Punishment Crossroads” (2/16/07)

2006:

• The New York Times, Monica Davey,( front page article) “ Missouri  Says It Can’t Comply On Executions”  (7/15/06)
• The New York Times, Michelle O’Donnell, “ Death Row Case May Decide More Than Inmate’s Fate” (2/26/06)
• The New York Times, Ralph Blumenthal and Adam Liptak, “Judging Whether a Killer is Sane Enough to Die” (6/2/06)
• The Charlotte Observer, “S.C Bill: Execute 2-time Molesters” (3/28/06)
• Richmond Times Dispatch, “ Execution by Injection Faces Scrutiny” (3/26/06)
• New Observer, “NC Law at Odds with Medical Ethics Rule” (3/13/06)
• The New York Times, John M. Broder, “Lethal Injection Draws a New National Spotlight” (2/23/06)
• ABC News Local, “California Execution Suspended Indefinitely” (2/22/06)
• Baltimore Sun, “Death Penalty Has Cost” (9/3/06)
• Pittsburg Post-Gazette, “Kill-for-Thrill Case drags on after 25 years” (8/12/06)
• Great Falls Tribune, “Many Involved in Lethal Injections” (8/10/06)
• Reuters, “Lethal Injection Worries Stir US Death Penalty Debate” (7/27/06)

2005:

• The New York Times, Adam Liptak, “Serving Life, With No Chance of Redemption” (10/5/05)
• The New York Times, Adam Liptak, “ News Analysis: Reshaping Capital Punishment” (3/2/05)
• Fox News,  “Juvenile Death Penalty: Fair or Unfair”  (02/28/05)
• BBC, “US Whittling Away at Death Penalty” (3/3/05)
• The Baltimore Sun, Recent cases Stir Debate on Execution (12/4/05)
• Austin American-Statesman, “Father; Death is Only Justice for Teen’s Killer” (7/25/05)
• Bergen Record, “Prison Reform Idea: Make Worst Inmates Suffer” (7/3/05)
• The Christian Science Monitor, “ Will Texas Now Hand Out Fewer Death Sentences” (6/27/05)
• The Washington Times, “High Court Reverses Death Case: Faults Defense Team” (6/21/05)
• Houston Chronicle, “Signs Indicate Teens Playing It Safer These Days” (6/15/05)
• The Roanoke Times, “Could She Get Death Sentence?” (5/16/05)
• The International Herald Tribune, “US Courts in Ferment on Scope of Executions” (3/5/05)
• Houston Chronicle, “Horror Over a Vicious Generation  Behind Push to Condemn Teens” (3/5/05)
• San Antonio Express-News, “Juvenile Injustice?” (2/20/05)
• The Hartford Courant, “Judge’s Teleconference Has Experts Talking” (2/2/05)
• The Christian Science Monitor, “Postponed Execution Tests a Region’s Views on Crime” (1/25/05)
• The Hartford Courant, “A Lethal Routine, A Grim Debate” (1/9/05)

2004:

• The New York Times, Adam Liptak “On Death Row, a Battle Over the Fatal Cocktail” (9/16/04)
• The New York Times, William Glaberson “Judge Objects to Ashcroft Bid For a Mobster’s Execution” (11/13/04)
• The New York Times, Joyce Purnick, “Metro Matters: Temperature Seems To Cool on Death Law” (12/20/04)
• Times Ledger, “DA Morgenthau Against Reviving Death Penalty” (12/23/04)
• The New York Times, Marc Santora “Morgenthau and Others Speak Out Against the Death Penalty” (12/16/04)
• The Journal News (White Plains, NY), “Foes Condemn Death Penalty” (12/16/04)
• The National Law Journal, “US Death Penalty in the Wake of Ashcroft” (11/29/04)
• The Tribune, “Both Sides Call for Death Penalty Reforms” (12/6/04)
• Boston Globe, “An Eye for an Eye?” (11/15/04)
• New York Law Journal, “The Juvenile Death Penalty” (10/13/04)
• The Dallas Morning News, “Old Enough to Kill, Too Young to Die?” (10/10/04)
• The Baltimore Sun, “High Court Agrees to Consider Legality of Juvenile Executions” (1/27/04)
• The Boston Globe, “Court to Rule on Death Penalty” (1/27/04)
• The New York Times, William Glaberson, “Higher Threshold for Death Penalty is Sought” (1/11/04)

2003:

• The Christian Science Monitor, “Fewer Minors Being Sentenced to Death” (12/26/03)
• Newsday, “NY Court is Called Anti-Death Overturn in 2 Cases Reignites State Debate” (12/27/03)
• The New York Times, Adam Liptak, “National Report: Penalty for Young Sniper Could Spur Change in Law” (12/25/03)
• The New York Times, Erica Goode, “Are Young Killers Evil, or Works in Progress?”  (11/25/03)
• Cornell Chronicle, “Conference Experts Debate the Juvenile Death Penalty Issue” (11/23/03)
• The Wall Street Journal Editorial, “Long Live Capital Punishment” (1/14/03)

Selected Press Quotes Prior to 2003:

• The Washington Post, “Does Ruling Signal Shift in Thinking?” (6/25/02)
• The New York Times, Paul Zielbaur, “Police to Seize Cars of People Accused of Drunken Driving”
• The Washington Post, Courtland Milloy, “D.C’s Lorton Facility: Haven or Hell?” (11/15/90)
• The New York Times, Dirk Johnson, “More Prisons Using Iron Hand to Control Inmates” (11/1/90)
• The Tufts Daily, “Lecture Focuses on Capital Punishment”(2/6/98)
• New York Magazine, “High Spy: Jules Kroll’s Modern Gum Shoes Are on a Roll” (5/1/91)
• San Francisco Examiner, “Clemency Slim Chance These Days” (1/29/98)
• The Tennessean, “ Prisoners Losing Privileges, Privacy” (12/6/98)
• The New York Times, William Glaberson, “In Truth, Even Those Little Lies are Prosecuted Once in a While”(11/17/98)
• Newsday, re Goetz (05/87)