Leopold and Loeb

This novelistic narrative, focuses on King Leopold II merciless pillage around the Congo River. While King Leopold II created a holocaust of his own, he kept up his reputation in Belgium as a great humanitarian. While Leopold was killing millions of Congolese around the Congo, most Europeans believed he was funding projects and putting a stop to slavery in East Africa. But, through all the violence and brutal acts, there were some who fought against Leopold, exposing the cruelty that was taking…

Leopold & Loeb’s case was eventually known by many as the result of the wave of publicity that surrounded it. As Jordan Schildrout explained, Patrick hamilton wrote the play Rope, which is a play inspired by Leopold and Loeb. It is about two guys that kill someone, put his body in a wooden box, then invite his friends and family over and serve food on his box. In the play, Hamilton, did not make direct references that the two main characters had a sexual relationship. Throughout the play the…

As a defense lawyer, Darrow strongly appeals to the jury’s emotion. During the Leopold and Loeb trial, he asks the jury why they had killed Franks? “Not for money, not for spite; not for hate. They killed him as they might kill a spider or a fly, for the experience...and those unfortunate lads sit here hated, despised, outcasts, with the community shouting for their blood (“Leopold & Loeb” par 38). Darrow uses the metaphor created between the bloodshed of a spider and the murder of…

can we learn by reason[,] judgement[,] understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and mercy is the highest attribute?” asked Clarence Darrow at the trial for Leopold and Loeb. This was his hope for the country. Darrow was strongly opposed to the death penalty and through his argument was able to get Leopold and Loeb life without parole instead of death. The death penalty is wrong and is against human nature. Capital punishment in the U.S. should be abolished because we have no right…

Clarence’s speech, in Missouri, was about the reasoning behind not believing in God. Lanny Swerdlow describes Darrow as an American lawyer, a fighter for civil rights, and movement speaker. Darrow was most known for his defense of thrill killers Loeb and Leopold in 1924. The whole quote is about the church being afraid of knowledge and what it can lead to. It specifically speaks about religion on the same scale as laughing gas and whiskey, this downsizes how important religion can be to others.…

Psychological explanations for offending behaviour focus on the idea that crime is the result of innate factors, whereby an individual has dysfunctional mental processes within their personality. These abnormalities could be the result of a diseased mind (Tetlock 1995). However, there are other ways of understanding crime such as sociological explanations. Sociological explanations focus on the idea that crime is a product of parental influences and inadequate socialisation (Downes and Rock…

Innocence Judged by the Shade of Skin Racial profiling is the foundation of racism; it is the reason for police brutality, mass incarceration, and modern day segregation. It seems impossible to stop. Our already tedious process of desegregation is being stalled even further due to society idolizing lighter skin, and immediately not just seeing, but treating darker skinned human beings as threats. In recent years, racial profiling has been highlighted, but it is not a new thing. Of course,…

In 1924 but it was used as by Clarence Darrow attorney for two young men Richard Loeb 18 years old and Nathan Leopold Jr., a19 year old for their kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old boy named Robert “Bobby” Franks. Clarence Darrow explained to the court and that both of the boys were privileged and did ot know the consequences of committing…

excessive use of child labor in the company. When faced with a crime trial, Darrow successfully secured an acquittal for William D. Haywood in 1907 for the murder of Governor Frank R. Steunenberg of Idaho. Darrow also narrowly saved Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold from a death sentence for the murder of 14-year-old Robert Franks in Chicago (Clarence Darrow,…

I think the sentence sets the time of the book because it clearly displays a very outdated form of belief. Back in the fifties, it was odd to date as a teenager, even worse if the person was of another race or religion. I can tell that the community is probably conservative, because even different denominations of the same religion cannot be in a relationship. (65 words). It is obvious, from the introduction of Mrs. Clutter that she is depressed. The page after this explains her…