Live Appearances

2013:

  • FoxBusiness, Lou Dobbs Tonight
  • HLN, Nancy Gracy
  • WNYC, Brian Lehrer Show, “Punishment that Fits” (11/19/13)

2012:

  • University of Heidelberg (05/12)
  • Nightline (02/15/12 “Death of Punishment” – projected title)
  • Speaker, University of Miami School of Law (2/17&18/12) get details from RB
  • Speaker, Ohio University School of Law (3/30/12) ) get details from RB

2011:

  • BBC, Up All Night, first aired 4/21/11
  • NAN Forum on Death Penalty especially Troy Davis (12/03/11) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF8Zbd1r9zY
  • “Let the Great Axe Fall” – Part I and II ( Media Reporter Part  )- aired on Channel 34- Manhattan Network News

-Part II (11/2/11);

  • http://nyls.mediasite.com/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=ef9390c7206e4625b42cba1e90ac1da41d

-Part I- ( 10/18/11);

2010

  • CBS News, Cover Story- “The Slow Death of the Death Penalty” (6/13/10)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/13/sunday/main6577273.shtml

  • Fox.com interview with Kimberly Guilfoyle- (10/20/10)
  • National Public Radio, guest on The Diane Rehm Show

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-02-18/discussion-about-death-penalty

  • Robert Blecker’s Testimony before New Hampshire Death Penalty Commission (8/12/10)
  • Utah Valley University, Death Penalty Symposium (11/9/10)
  • Lincoln Center Film Society (06/17/10) Guest Commentator opposite Barry Scheck discussing “No Tomorrow”

2009

                  Dozens of published Interviews and media appearances surrounding “Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead”

                  Nov. 5, 2009 Tavis Smiley Radio Show

 

2008

2007

  • ?? -Court TV Open Court ( 3/12/07)
  • Guest on Court TV (12/10/07)
  • Speaker, European-American Policy Forum: A Transatlantic Divide- Understanding European and American Approaches to the Death Penalty (12/17/07)

2006

  • Court TV, Morning Edition (6/21/06)

2005

  • CNN, guest on Nancy Grace (12/16/05)
  • Court TV “Both Sides Now” (12/13/2005)
  • CSPAN, Washington Journal (8/13/05)
  • ABC, commentary on 6PM News (??- check with rb for details) (6/1/05)
  •  ABC , Interview with Nics (sp-??) (1/21/05)
  • ABC (??), World News Tonight, Back to Back Death Penalty (1/25-26/05)
  • MSNBC, Guest speaker on Scarborough Country (3/1/05)
  • Court TV, “RFK: A Question of Justice” (5/22/05)
  • Court TV, “Both Sides Now” (11/29/05)
  • Speaker, Knight Center for Specialized Journalism’s Seminar on Law & the Courts ( 4/17-22/05)
  • Voice of America, “Capital Punishment” (12/13/05)

2004

  • NBC, Guest on Dateline (8/1/04)
  • BBC World Today-Ed.2, “US Supreme Court” (1/27/04)
  • PBS, Brian Lehrer Show (12/16/04)
  • WNYC, “The Fate of New York’s Death Penalty” (12/16/04)
  • Keynote Speaker, Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation Conference (8/4-7/04)
  • Speaker, Simmons v. Roper Panel at New York University Law School (10/26/04)
  • Speaker,  Fordham Stein Scholars Criminal Justice Interest Group (10/27/04)
  • Expert Witness, New York Assembly Committee on “The Death Penalty in New York” (12/15/04)

 

2003

  • Guest on Montel Williams, “Freed From Death Row” (1/21/03)
    • LINK
  • Guest on MSNBC’s “Abrams Report” (8/27/03)
  • Guest, KDKM-Mike Pintek Show(01/28/03)

2002

  • Guest on BBC World News  re: Atkins, execution of the mentally retarded (3/12/02)
  • Guest on CourtTV re: Andrea Yates (3/15/02)
  • New Hampshire Public Radio, The Exchange: Death Penalty, guest (7/12/02)
  • Speaker, “The Law and Politics of the Death Penalty” Symposium, University of Oregon (3/1-2/02)
  • Guest, NPR: All Things Considered re Lee Malvo, 17-year old D.C. sniper (11/7/02)
  • Guest on Jefferson Public Radio (2/25/02)
  • Speaker, Duke Law School Conference, “International  Law, Human Rights and the Death Penalty” (7/19-20/02)
  • Minnesota Public Radio- re: Ring and Atkins on death penalty (7/01/02) (Guest)

2001

  • CNN, “Talk Back Live” (Death Penalty Tapes) (5/31/01)
  • Channel 9 11-O’clock News re McVeigh (4/12/01)
  • PBS- News Hour with Jim Lehrer re: McVey (4/12/01)
  • NPR Boston-re McVeigh (6/11/01)
  • Court TV, Guest on Crier Today re McVeigh (4/10/01)

 

2000

 

 

Pre-2000 Appearances  

  • CNN,  (12/1/98), Talk Back Live (12/2/98), Talk Back Live (2/24/98), Talk Back Live (2/25/99), Talk Back Live (12/14/98)
  • NBC, guest on Nightly News with Tom Brokaw Interviewed by Pete Williams (11/19/98)
  • CNN,  “Burden of Proof” (12/1/98)
  • CBS, National Sunday Night News (6/11/00)
  • BBC TV,  USA Direct (10/14/98)
  • Fox News, Crier Report (8/19/99), Crier Report (5/1/00)
  • CourtTV, ( 6/22/00), Crier Today (6/1/00), Crier Today (6/12/00)
  • Court TV- Ricky Kleiman Show re death penalty(6/22/00)
  • New York Ch.1, Bush v. Gore (11/14/00)
  • Oxygen,  “Pure Oxygen” re death penalty(2/23/00)
  • WLIB- Wake Up New York re: death penalty (03/21/00)
  • WGHT 1500, NJ’s Talking w/ Noam re: capital punishment(12/14/00)
  • CBS-WCCO, guest on Dark Star re: Benny Demps (6/12/00)
  • MSN, Debates Debates “Do We Need a New Death Penalty?”(6/7/00)
  • MSN, Debates Debates “Is the Death Penalty Cruel and Unusual Punishment? (5/22/00)
  • MSN, Debates Debates “Is the Death Penalty Fair?”
  • Tufts University, “Killers on Killing:  From the Perspedtive of Convicted Murderers (02/05/98)
  • Tufts University “Who Should Die?  A Dialogue on the Death Penalty with Hugo Bedau (02/05/98)
  • CBS, National News (9/26/98)
  • WOR/AM/NY What’s Your Problem? (4/13/85)
  • WNBC, Editorial (3/31/85)
  • Phil Donahue Show (3/11/85) (Guest re Undercover operations)
  • WMCA, Steve Powers Show (1/21/80) (Guest)
  • WMCA, Steve Powers Show (02/08/80 (1 hr debate with David Breitbart)
  • CBS, “60 Minutes” debating Roy Cohn (12/30/79)
  • South Carolina Public Television, “Vote No!” (aired 5/20/88)
  • NPR, “All Things Considered”  (11/16/91), (3/24/88)
  • WMCA, (1/21/80), (5/26/87), (6/09/87), (6/15/87)
  • CBS, AM Radio Show (10/21/91)
  • KMOX Morning Meeting Show (re “Vote NO!” (10/21/91)
  • WOR AM Sherry Henry Show (05/28/80)
  • ____, Bernard Meltzer Show (04/13/85)
  • ABC 20/20 ‘Bob Leuci: Prince of the City” (On air credit as ‘consultant’)
  • Temple B’Nai Abraham: Debated Roy Cohn
  • Loeb, NYU Keynote at annual Meeting of Social Studies Supervisors (0524/83)
  • Computer Chess Digest Annual:  “Bobby Fischer:  A Great Future Behind Him” (1983)
  • New York Times (05/10/84 p. B2)
  • WLIB/WBLS “Undercover in the Schools” (02/28/85)
  • Boston University ‘voting NO!” on the Constitution (02/24/87)
  • Tufts University “Liberal Arts:  A Life After College”  Keynote Speaker (04/08/87)
  • Newsday  re Goetz (05/87)
  • WMCA  Barry Gray Show (guest)  re Goetz (05/26/87)
  • WMCA Barry Gray Entrapment (08/03/87)
  • Newsday re Goetz (08/03/87)
  • Isaac Royall House (Speaker at Dedication)  09/20/87
  • “Vote NO!” premiers at the Kennedy Center (12/01/87)
    • Shown at AALS Convention (01/88)
  • NPR “All Things Considered” Vote NO! replayed and interview
  • Harvard Kennedy School of Gov’t. Forum “Vote NO!” performed and discussion
  • South Carolina Legislature “Vote NO!” performed (05/20/88)
  • Piccolo Spoleto Festival “Vote NO!”  (05/23/88)
  • Kent State  Lorton Prison Lecture (02/28/89)
  • KNMU (10/16/01) re “Vote NO!”
  • Tufts Distinguished Alumni Panel “Corruption in Politics” (02/24/88)
  • Fraunces Tavern, NYC Father Anonymous  public reading (05/07/89)