New @ 10: Robert Blecker Wants me Dead
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How on earth can Robert Blecker and Daryl Holton be friends? That question pulses at the centre of Robert Blecker Wants me Dead, a surprising and often disturbing documentary film about passion, murder, and the American death penalty.
Robert Blecker is one of America’s most impassioned crusaders for capital punishment. His fundamental credo is: “Some people deserve to die, and it’s our obligation to kill them.”
Daryl Holton is one of those people he wants dead. In 1997, Holton coolly and methodically shot his four children to death with an assault rifle in Shelbyville, Tennessee. For these crimes, he was given four separate death sentences.
In this film we see the two men meet during Blecker’s 2005 research trip to Riverbend Maximum Security prison outside Nashville.
While chatting with Holton in an impromptu interview, Blecker discovers to his shock that this multiple murderer not only possesses a keen legal mind and a wry sense of humor, but that Holton has declined to file any of his permitted appeals and seems to invite his own execution with a mixture of calm and even courage. The two men discover a strange philosophical kinship; the fact that Blecker fully approves of Holton’s impending death doesn’t seem to bother Holton at all.
Robert Blacker Wants me Dead is part of a season of extraordinary new documentaries airing at 10pm.
Monday 7 November: The China Question
Tuesday 8 November: Escaping Polygamy
Wednesday 9 November: Robert Blecker Wants me Dead
Thursday 10 November: Abandoned by America
Friday 11 November: Mothers Behind Bars
Tuesday 15 November: Special Forces Soldiers
Wednesday 16 November: Kids on Pills
Thursday 17 November: Battered Men
Friday 18 November: Bullied to Death
Robert Blecker is one of America’s most impassioned crusaders for capital punishment. His fundamental credo is: “Some people deserve to die, and it’s our obligation to kill them.”
Daryl Holton is one of those people he wants dead. In 1997, Holton coolly and methodically shot his four children to death with an assault rifle in Shelbyville, Tennessee. For these crimes, he was given four separate death sentences.
In this film we see the two men meet during Blecker’s 2005 research trip to Riverbend Maximum Security prison outside Nashville.
While chatting with Holton in an impromptu interview, Blecker discovers to his shock that this multiple murderer not only possesses a keen legal mind and a wry sense of humor, but that Holton has declined to file any of his permitted appeals and seems to invite his own execution with a mixture of calm and even courage. The two men discover a strange philosophical kinship; the fact that Blecker fully approves of Holton’s impending death doesn’t seem to bother Holton at all.
Robert Blacker Wants me Dead is part of a season of extraordinary new documentaries airing at 10pm.
Monday 7 November: The China Question
Tuesday 8 November: Escaping Polygamy
Wednesday 9 November: Robert Blecker Wants me Dead
Thursday 10 November: Abandoned by America
Friday 11 November: Mothers Behind Bars
Tuesday 15 November: Special Forces Soldiers
Wednesday 16 November: Kids on Pills
Thursday 17 November: Battered Men
Friday 18 November: Bullied to Death
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