In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Name

Professor

Subject

Date

Two Ways of Committing a Cold Blooded Murder

In a story written by Stephen King called Stand by me ' he said : When people die we remember the past . It was November , 15 1959 a date to be forever remembered when two men , Richard Hickock and Perry Smith entered a home in Holcomb , Kansas aiming for a robbery which ended in a bloody massacre . Dick and Perry left the Clutter 's home with four lifeless bodies and on the run for their very lives

Dewey is

a good man and Like the majority of American law-enforcement officials , Dewey is certain that capital punishment is a deterrent to violent crime (Capote 381 . Yet at the end , when all was said and done , he didn 't feel a release when he should have been . The case was closed and the people behind the blooded massacre received the full power of the American justice system . The surviving member of the Clutter didn 't even bother to come and watch the hanging . In the end he understood what it all has been : Revenge to two men who according to the jury deserved to die

In the book , Truman Capote explored capital punishment . One of the views shown was that of Dick 's wherein he stated that capital punishment is nothing but purely revenge . People who have suffered a loss always say when asked to describe what they are going through , as an unbearable pain . Imagine what it would feel to suffer a loss from murder . Someone came and ended the life of a person dear to you . It is only natural to wish the same pain , if not more , to be suffered by the murderer

But why do we have laws ? We created them so as to govern the people and keep them safe . If this is true , why is there such a law that destroys individuals it should protect ? Criminals no matter how we look at them are human . When a man commits a murder we call him a monster . Yet behind the blood they shed and names we attach to them such as butcher , killer animal and devil incarnate we cannot hide the fact that their deed did not change them , turned them into something not human . Taking somebody 's life is a heinous act , no doubt about that . But it never means they should no longer be recipient of privileges we get from our laws

To kill in cold blood is a premeditated act . Meaning they have been considered , maybe even planned . A murder in cold blood is done neither to defend oneself nor an act of passion wherein the act is committed while fuelled by passions felt at the time . No , a cold blooded crime is calculated . It is done wherein the murderer is thinking clearly without the influence of chemicals or drugs , knows what he is about to do and understands its consequences

When somebody is killed we remember the past so much that we see...