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Life Sentence Doesn't Deliver Punishment, Robert Blecker
Life Sentence Doesn't Deliver Punishment, Robert Blecker
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The Death Of Punishment: Searching For Justice Among The Worst Of The Worst, Robert I. Blecker
The Death Of Punishment: Searching For Justice Among The Worst Of The Worst, Robert I. Blecker
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For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor at New York Law School, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder.The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers' poignant circumstances should lead us to mercy; others show clearly why they should die. After thousands of hours over twenty-five years inside maximum security prisons and on death rows in seven states, Professor Blecker exposes the perversity of justice: Inside prison, ironically, it's nobody's job to punish. Thus the worst criminals often …
Fictionalized Criminal Law And Youth Legal Consciousness, Avi Brisman
Fictionalized Criminal Law And Youth Legal Consciousness, Avi Brisman
NYLS Law Review
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Killing Them Softly: Meditations On A Painful Punishment Of Death, Robert I. Blecker
Killing Them Softly: Meditations On A Painful Punishment Of Death, Robert I. Blecker
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This brief essay argues that any attempt by the U.S. Supreme Court and others to establish a painless punishment, especially lethal injection, fails logically and morally.
From the beginning, by definition, etymologically and existentially, “punishment” and “pain” have been inseparably connected. Those who advocate ‘painless punishment’ call for contradiction. Whether looking to the future (utilitarians) or the past (retributivists), we once clearly understood and embraced the inseparable connection between punishment and pain. Gradually, however, punishment has morphed into something which denies its own nature, culminating in today's move toward a massive dose of anesthetic as the ultimate punishment - as …
The Death Penalty: Where Are We Now?, Robert Blecker
The Death Penalty: Where Are We Now?, Robert Blecker
NYLS Law Review
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Transitional Justice, Ruiti G. Teitel
Transitional Justice, Ruiti G. Teitel
Books
Ruti Teitel explores the ways in which a society should respond to evil rule. This is an insightful analysis of one of the most fundamental political science issues of our times - how the emerging democracies in Eastern Europe and elsewhere should deal with the legal systems inherited from their authoritarian pasts.
Should the past system be repudiated altogether? Should the leaders from the authoritarian period be punished? If so, how? Under what principles of law would punishment be justified, given that the leaders were, in general, acting legally according to the legal systems in effect at the time? This …