Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead is an independent documentary film about retributivist death penalty advocate Robert Blecker[1] and his relationship with Daryl Holton, a death row inmate who murdered his own four children, and who was executed by the state of Tennessee in September 2007.
The film was directed by Ted Schillinger and produced by Bruce David Klein.
The film was completed in November 2007 and made its world premiere on April 25, 2008, at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas, as an official selection of the festival.
[6] It won a Gold Kahuna Award at the 2009 Honolulu International Film Festival.
"[8][9] The Washington Post described it as a fascinating look at "the vast amount of wiggle room between being for the death penalty and being against it.