Comment blacklisting works well, but what if you actually want to stop someone from even reading your blog? This plugin will take care of that for you.
It uses .htaccess file modifications to deny access to your blog from particular IP addresses (Deny from) and then follows up with an ErrorDocument 403 redirect to a URL of your choice. It doesn’t hook into WordPress, which makes it a lot faster due to no database or PHP calls.

WP-BlockYou

A plugin that can be used to block or "ban" users via their IP address from viewing your blog, and then redirecting them to a URL of your ch …

Skyy

This plugin allows you to banned certain username from making comment, particularly when you don’t want to ban 
ip addresses, but want to stop certain “notorious” misbehaving users.
If your blog requires user registration, you should really try the “members.0.1.1” wordpress plugin.

WP-BlockYou vs WP-Ban-User