Is the death penalty ever justified?

Closing the semester with a class visit from Prof. Robert Blecker

The semester is over but for the shouting (and I admit I sometimes get nearly to shouting and screaming while doing final grading…).

In the Faces of Death course, the last guest visitor was a week ago last Friday. Robert Blecker is a law professor emeritus at New York Law School. I read his book on capital punishment, The Death of Punishment, some years…