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1. Website. University profile. John David Bessler (born October 23, 1967) is an American attorney and academic. He is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is the husband of U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar .
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- Associate Professor of Law at University of Baltimore School of Law
- October 23, 1967 (age 55), Mankato, Minnesota
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May 1, 2024 · In his most recent book, Professor Bessler argues that the death penalty should be classified as torture, which would prohibit its use under international law and treaties. The reality of capital punishment, he explains, is that it is “really just a series of credible death threats.”. The capital charge is a death threat, the death sentence ...
Dec 8, 2023 · In this month’s episode of Discussions with DPIC, Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with John Bessler (pictured), Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Professor Bessler is the author of several books on the death penalty, including his 2023 book The Death Penalty’s Denial of Fundamental Human Rights ...
John D. Bessler". In colonial America, corporal punishments-both lethal and non lethal-were a gritty reality of life. The Massachusetts "Body of Uber ties," adopted in 1641, contained twelve capital offenses and authorized the imposition of up to forty lashes. Everything from murder and rebellion, to adultery and bestiality, to blasphemy and ...
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Oct 18, 2017 · Bessler emphasizes that he does not mean that the administration of capital punishment is torturous, for this is a claim that has been made by other scholars such as Professor William Schabas. 1 Instead, Bessler argues that as a conceptual matter, state sanctioned executions are torture under the definition in Article 1 of the United Nations ...
John Bessler, ed. 2016) • contextualizes, reprints, and annotates Justice Breyer’s dissent in Glossip v. Gross, 576 U.S. 863 (2015) • paperback issued by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Brookings Institution Press, 2023 THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN LAW: AN ITALIAN PHILOSOPHER AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2014)
