1. John David Bessler was born on 1967 and is an American attorney and academic.
11 Facts About John Bessler
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John Bessler is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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John Bessler is the husband of US Senator Amy Klobuchar.
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John Bessler previously taught at the University of Minnesota Law School and The George Washington University Law School, where he specialized in death penalty issues.
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John Bessler currently is a tenured associate professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he teaches civil procedure, contracts, capital punishment, international human rights law, and lawyering skills.
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John Bessler is the author of Writing for Life: The Craft of Writing for Everyday Life.
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John Bessler is a leading authority on capital punishment, having written five books and various book chapters and articles on the subject.
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John Bessler has written that the death penalty, even independent of actual executions, is intrinsically a form of torture, arguing that each element of a capital case constitutes a death threat, from charging an individual with a capital crime to the promise of an imminent execution for a condemned person.
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John Bessler has contributed to one event, a teleforum entitled "Execution Methods and Deciding Implementation of the Death Penalty," held by The Federalist Society, a conservative and libertarian organization.
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John Bessler is married to Amy Klobuchar, a politician and lawyer who currently serves as a US Senator for Minnesota.
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On March 23,2020, Klobuchar announced via Instagram that John Bessler had contracted COVID-19 and was later hospitalized.