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Over A Barrel: Insurance — the Tail that Wags the Dog

March 2, 2012

Over A Barrel:  Insurance — the Tail that Wags the Dog

Unable to sleep, I tuned on CNBC – a business channel – this morning and heard an oil analyst attribute much of the spike in oil prices to the higher insurance costs surrounding the uncertainty over Iran’s near term … <Read More>

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Is Death Row a Form of Psychological Torment?

November 8, 2011

Death Row is Torture

Is Death Row a Form of ‘Psychological Torment’?

To the Editor:

“Lifelong Death Sentences,” by Adam Liptak (Sidebar column, Nov. 1), says that “foreign courts have ruled that living for decades under the threat of imminent execution is a form of psychological torment.” But the

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About the Author

Robert Blecker

Robert Blecker is a professor at New York Law School, a nationally known expert on the death penalty, and the subject of the documentry Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead. He formerly prosecuted corruption in New York's criminal justice system as a Special Assistant Attorney General and has been the sole keynote speaker supporting the death penalty at several major national and international conferences. A post-graduate Harvard fellow in Law and Humanities, Blecker wrote the stage play Vote NO! which premiered at the Kennedy Center. Profiled by The New York Times and The Washington Post, the subject of a USA Today cover story, and recently featured on ABC's Nightline, Blecker frequently comments for national media. He lives in New York.

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