Dick and Perry's lives in the Book, “In Cold Blood,” were portrayed as cold blooded murders in Holcomb. The murders they committed were lethal, brutal, and some may dare to say inhumane. The killing of the Clutter family is the main focus of the book, and although you clearly can justify the fact that Dick and Perry deserve to die for what they did, Truman Capote, the author of the book seems to think that the capital punishment should be stopped and was not necessary on behalf of the murders, I actually disagree. I am totally agree with capital punishment, primarily the death penalty because you do the crime and I believe if it's something incredibly inhuman, vile, and cruel, that you should be killed for it. "In Exodus Twenty, Verse Thirteen,
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One quote from the novel says "That he knew what he was doing and still went ahead with it is possibly the most clear-cut demonstration of this fact. He is a person who is impulsive in action, likely to do things without thought of the consequences or future discomfort to himself or to others (Capote 187)." This quote is basically saying how Perry is very inconsiderate of anyone's feeling that he kills, and doesn't think about the outcome, but it's as if he stays in the moment. This totally supports the fact that capital punishment should be enforced because if you have the gull and audacity to kill and hurt someone with no remorse while knowing what you're doing, you're basically asking to die in my opinion. Killing someone for the enjoyment of it, the meaningless 30 seconds to 5 minutes that you could watch them die is all for nothing. Or it could all be for the cost of your life since you took …show more content…
He sheds their blood, and because of that, shortly after he shed his. There are so many things that go totally against murdering involving religion, but regardless of that, the people whose lives were impacted by the murders changed greatly. People lived in fear and timidness. In this novel, we learned the truth about how people can be. We saw standpoints on both sides of why some people should, or shouldn't die for some of the crimes they commit. But at the end of the day, the person committing, or thinking of committing the crime should think about all these things beforehand to avoid the outcome of death. This book showed what living in "cold blood" really means. "Genesis Nine, Verse Six: 'Who so sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed (Capote 193)," and if you believe that, then you believe in capital
One quote from the novel says "That he knew what he was doing and still went ahead with it is possibly the most clear-cut demonstration of this fact. He is a person who is impulsive in action, likely to do things without thought of the consequences or future discomfort to himself or to others (Capote 187)." This quote is basically saying how Perry is very inconsiderate of anyone's feeling that he kills, and doesn't think about the outcome, but it's as if he stays in the moment. This totally supports the fact that capital punishment should be enforced because if you have the gull and audacity to kill and hurt someone with no remorse while knowing what you're doing, you're basically asking to die in my opinion. Killing someone for the enjoyment of it, the meaningless 30 seconds to 5 minutes that you could watch them die is all for nothing. Or it could all be for the cost of your life since you took …show more content…
He sheds their blood, and because of that, shortly after he shed his. There are so many things that go totally against murdering involving religion, but regardless of that, the people whose lives were impacted by the murders changed greatly. People lived in fear and timidness. In this novel, we learned the truth about how people can be. We saw standpoints on both sides of why some people should, or shouldn't die for some of the crimes they commit. But at the end of the day, the person committing, or thinking of committing the crime should think about all these things beforehand to avoid the outcome of death. This book showed what living in "cold blood" really means. "Genesis Nine, Verse Six: 'Who so sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed (Capote 193)," and if you believe that, then you believe in capital