Funny, I always thought that God, not some deluded law professor, made such decisions. I don’t know if Schillinger intended it that way, but Blecker comes across as an arrogant fool who thinks he has the power to decide who should live and who should die. THE documentary Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead is a thoughtful if dry discussion of the death penalty revolving around the titular gentleman, a professor at New York. The resulting portrait is funny, disturbing and vital: Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead is a penetrating personal look at one of the most compelling and confounding moral questions of our time. “Daryl deserves to die quickly and painlessly, but he deserves to live painfully.” “Some people deserve a quick and painful death,” Blecker says. Still, he thinks Holton is better off dead.
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In a series of prison meetings, Blecker finds himself impressed by the well-spoken killer, whom he calls “brilliant” and “an extraordinary person.” Then he meets Daryl Holton, who is on death row in Tennessee for killing his four young sons with an assault rifle in the culmination of a custody dispute with his former wife. But by the end of Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead, the New York law professor’s obsessive relationship to death-row inmate Daryl Holton, self-confessed slayer of his own four children. It’s not that everybody on death row deserves to die, the good professor proclaims, just “the worst of the worst,” who have surrendered their right to live because of the irredeemable viciousness of their crimes.
During a 2005 research trip to Riverbend Maximum Security prison, Blecker meets Daryl Holton, a man who in. New York Law School professor Robert Blecker is one of Americas most impassioned crusaders for capital punishment. THE documentary “Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead” is a thoughtful if dry discussion of the death penalty revolving around the titular gentleman, a professor at New York Law School in downtown Manhattan and an outspoken fan of the barbaric practice of frying people in the electric chair or standing them in front of a firing squad and riddling their bodies with bullets.ĭispatching criminals we hate via lethal injection is too good for them, Blecker reasons in Ted Schillinger’s film, because that’s the same way we sometimes are forced to kill pets we love. Overview Synopsis Credits Film Details Notes Brief Synopsis.
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