简介：RobertBleckerisoneofthecountry’smostimpassionedcrusadersforcapitalpunishment.Aself-described‘emotiveretributivist’andNewYorkLawSchoolprofessor,hiscredois“Somepeopledeservetodie,andwehaveanobligationtokillthem.”DarylHoltonisoneofthosepeople.In1997,HoltonshothisfourchildrentodeathwithanassaultrifleinShelbyville,Tennessee.Forthesecrimes,hereceivedfourseparatedeathsentences.Thetwomenmetin2005,duringBlecker’sresearchtriptoRiverbendmaximum-securityprison.ROBERTBLECKERWANTSMEDEADtellsthestoryoftheunlikelyfriendshipthatdevelopsbetweenthem,asthecondemnedmanandthescholarexploretogetherthemeaningofmercy,justice,andthemoralityofthedeathpenalty.…