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Discusses the motives and actions of the cold blooded murderer, Perry Smith. Material is from Truman Capote's nonfiction novel "IN COLD BLOOD," and an article by G.A. Satten. Examines Smith's life and actions with Satten's examples to grasp how he could murder without apparent reason. Early abuses suffered by Smith.

From the Paper
"In the annals of cold-blooded murders, the killing of the Clutter family stands out as a prime example. Truman Capote's 1965 non-fiction novel on the subject infers that the two murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, were not psychologically responsible, and although the two were found guilty, Capote's perspective seems reasonable. The murders committed by Perry Smith seem inexplicable even after reading Capote's In Cold Blood with its collection of accounts of Smith's life, the psychiatrist's report, and the excerpts from the Satten article on other murders committed "without apparent motive" (p. 298). Of course, as Capote points out, it was only the murder of Mr. Clutter that presents this kind of mystery since the other three members of the family were killed out of self-protection. But in Smith's account of killing Mr. Clutter there is so much simple ..."

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This paper examines the novel, "In Cold Blood," and looks at how it is an exhaustively researched, in-depth report, not just of events, but also the characters of the victims and their killers. In particular, it explores how Capote's portrayal of the two killers, Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock, as socially dysfunctional personalities capable of cold blooded killing ends up shaking the reader's equanimity by the very notion that such socially detached individuals could, in fact, be part of American society.

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"It is not just the note that Capote sets to Smith and Hickock's seemingly innocent journey, but also the manner in which he describes their interaction that lends the impression that something is just not right with this whole picture. True, a reader who is not already privy to newspaper reports of the Clutter murders may fail to connect Smith and Hickock to the murder scene. However, for those readers who are already aware of the facts of the case, the very casual air of the two characters begins to lend real meaning to the words "in cold blood." In fact, the cold blooded nature of the crime becomes even more evident when it is established that Smith and Hickock really had no clear motives; at least not of the conventional kind."

Tags:murder, perry, smith, richard, hickock

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In this article, the writer looks at Truman Capote's views on capital punishment as expressed in his novel 'In Cold Blood' and describes the new genre he creates with the book, the non-fiction novel.

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"In Truman Capote's novel 'In Cold Blood' he creates a new genre the non-fiction novel through his journalistic approach and his novel makes clear his negative views on capital punishment. Capote's novel is a true story based on actual facts so unlike a regular novel it is not the product of the author's flight of fancy. It is not ordinary non-fiction either however which would have portrayed the murders in a clinical manner without any storyline. What Capote does is to ..."

Tags:Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, capital punishment, non-fiction novel, kill, killing, murder, hang, hanging

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This paper discusses and reviews the book, "In Cold Blood," a true story about the murders of a family in Holcomb, Kansas, written by Truman Capote. It describes the events surrounding the murders and the investigation and looks at the impact that the murders had on the town of Holcomb. The paper discusses how Capote portrays the experiences of those involved with the family and the investigation.

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"He spent roughly six years being forced to be obsessed with this case. He came to know Alvin Dewey as a personal friend, as well as his wife. He took time out of his own life to sit with Perry in his prison cell in Lansing for years, and convinced people to pay for legal help for both Perry and Dick. People often mistake what he did as him wanting them to live, when really he only wanted answers. He wanted to know the why behind the why. "Why did you really kill them when there was no absolute reason to?" Truman dealt with the human dimensions of this case more than any other person involved, because he actually cared about the lives of the Clutters and the lives of Dick and Perry. He cared so much that upon the request by Perry, we witnessed the execution of both Perry and Dick. He later stated that the execution was the worst thing that he had to ever endure and he would forever be haunted by it."

Tags:victim, murderer, trial

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This paper explains that Leonard Peltier is a man who is currently serving two life sentences. Peltier was convicted of the murder of two FBI agents, but has repeatedly asked for parole and been rejected. The author points out that Peltier, who is Native American, insists that his heritage, his anger, and his protest against the white American government are what have caused him to receive two life sentences. The paper concludes that had Peltier only been convicted of this Wounded Knee standoff crime, it could be conceivable that he would have a valid point when it comes to his continued detainment; but he has been convicted of other violent crimes before the murders at Wounded Knee. Therefore, he is not a political prisoner, but rather a common criminal.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Background of the Issue
Argument
Conclusion

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"The ballistics evidence presented by the government was that Peltier was the only one who was using the type of gun that fired the type of bullets located in the car of the FBI agent. Whether or not he was using that gun has come under fire many times in the past three decades. Peltier and his attorneys continue to argue that he was there, he was involved but he did not pull the trigger of the gun that murdered the two agents. While he accepts some culpability for being involved in the standoff he objects to being convicted of murder, and even more so to spending two life sentences behind bars for a murder he believes he did not commit. As the appeals process was used his attorneys pointed to other cases in which the convict was at the scene but did not pull the trigger. They insist that in those cases the convicts did not have to wait so long for a parole hearing. According to his legal team and those who support his cause, Peltier is not being held this long because he killed someone, he is being held this long to be used as an example to what will happen to others who dare to buck the system of the United States government."

Tags:ballistics, criminal, parole, anger, detainment

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This paper examines four books, namely: "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, "News of a Kidnapping" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The Thief and the Dogs" by Naguib Mahfouz and Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood". The paper discusses the conclusion from all four books that murder is primarily based on man's innate desire to have power over others, or in other words, to "play God".

From the Paper
"Influenced by the meek, Christian prostitute Sonia, Raskolnikov confronts irrational behavior and ultimately confesses. The antagonist within Crime and Punishment is Porfiry Petrovich, a police investigator, who knows of Raskolnikov's guilt. It is also in Svidrigailov, who commits suicide, that Raskolnikov sees his own potential for total degradation. It takes the whole length of the novel for Raskolnikov to search for the motive of his crime. And it is in murdering the pawnbroker that he has killed essentially the human in himself and truly become, in his mind, "God-like"."

Tags:St., Petersburg, Raskolnikov, Pablo, Escobar, Said, Mahran, Dick, Hickock

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This paper describes and analyzes the characters of Perry Smith, the murderer in Truman Capote's novel "In Cold Blood" and Alberto Villamizar, the husband in Marques' novel, "News of Kidnapping", who is trying to free his wife from the clutches of Pablo Escobar. From the examination of these two characters the paper then takes a closer look at Marques and Capote's moral ladder to find out what precisely it is that separates perpetrator from victim, the moral from the immoral, and whether there is any hope for redemption.

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"In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, is perhaps one of the most chilling, yet enthralling novels ever written. Gabriel Garcia Marques, the author of News of a Kidnapping, himself a Nobel Prize winner (for 100 years of Solitude) is also a fascinating writer of our own time. One of the many attributes that distinguish these two authors is not just that they understand the human condition and present it in a compelling way; it is that they often ask difficult questions, questions of time, place, morality, and responsibility. They bring up questions that most people would never think to ask. Both of these books are the accounts of true crimes that happened. Both authors spent many years researching the stories and preparing the books. They both ask us chilling questions about the darker side of human nature."

Tags:murder, kidnapping, crimes, involved, people, victims, perpetrators, police, humanity

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This paper discusses Lizzie Borden's trial for the murders of her father and stepmother and explains that this was a situation that had never before been seen in any previous American murder case. This was the case of a privileged, upper-class woman who had allegedly murdered her parents in cold blood. This paper will describe the facts of the case, then analyze some of those facts and ultimately draw a conclusion as to why Lizzie Borden was eventually acquitted of the brutal murder of her father and stepmother.

From the Paper
"Lizzie Borden's trial for the murders of her father and stepmother was a situation that had never before been seen in any previous American murder case. This was the case of a privileged, upper-class woman who had allegedly murdered her parents in cold blood. This paper will describe the facts of the case, then analyze some of those facts and ultimately draw a conclusion as to why Lizzie Borden was eventually acquitted of the brutal murder of her father and stepmother. Facts of the Case On August 4, 1892, the couple of Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered by in Fall River, Massachusetts. The cause of death for both of them was bludgeoning by an axe. There were no signs of disturbance in the house -- other than the two bodies. Lizzie Borden, who was thirty-two, was Andrew Borden's youngest daughter."

Tags:lizzie, borden, murders

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The author states that O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a poignant story of the cold-blooded murder of a Georgian family. The paper outlines the plot segments: Family dynamic, comedy of travel and tragedy. The author discusses the writing technique of the O'Connor's story as a competition between "Situational Irony" and "Tragic Irony".

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"Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a poignant story of the cold-blooded murder of a family of a Georgian man Bailey, his wife, a new born baby, and two children: John-Wesley and June Star; and, Bailey's mother. The killers are: a possible serial killer known as the Misfit, and two accomplices, Bobby Lee and Hiram all three escaped convicts. What deepens the poignancy is that as each member of the family is shot, the others are aware of the tragedy slowly befalling them."

Tags:plot, murder, family, dynamic, comedy, travel, technique, irony, tragic, situation

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This paper examines how Pablo Escobar Gaviria, as well as his closest associates of the Medellin cartel, managed to virtually dominate the nation of Colombia throughout the 1980s and into the beginning of the 1990s. Among the forces used to attain this unbelievable level of power and dominance were huge, trained armies, advanced assault weapons, widespread corruption and bribery and various violent methods that often included cold-blooded murder. The paper shows that the effects of Pablo Escobar and the Medellin cartel are still felt strongly today all over Colombia. The paper argues that constructive action must be taken to ensure that neither an individual nor a drug cartel ever rise to their level of power again.

From the Paper
"By the beginning of the 1990s Pablo Escobar had built the largest and most lucrative illegal, undercover industry that the world had ever seen. In 1989 his cartel controlled an estimated 75 percent of the world's cocaine supply, and he himself had become a multi-billionaire (Jordan 82). On August 18 of that same year, both a Colombian police commandant and the front-running Liberal party presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan were assassinated. By the end of the night the Colombian government issued an emergency decree against the entire drug trade, and six days later, the Medellin cartel declared a war against the government and the industrial and political oligarchy."

Tags:dea, narcotics, trafficking, Guillermo, Cano