Part 4 Quotations Flashcards
Psychologists describing Perry as he killed the Clutters
‘He was acting ‘outside himself’
Dick’s dad talking about his son, during the period where he is regularly visiting him in jail
‘Having your boy hang, knowing he will. Nothing worse can happen to a man’
A journalist taking to another journalist during the trial
‘How about hanging the bastard? That’s pretty cold-blooded, too’
Perry describing the hypocrisy of church going spoke on the jury who play their part in him being sentenced to death
‘I’ll be damned if i’m the only killer in the courtroom’
Perry talking to Don Cullivan
‘You’ve done more for me than any what you call God ever has. By calling yourself my friend’
Don Cullivan talking to Perry
‘Yes, I like you’
The name of the law that Judge Tate uses to deny Dick and Perry a psychological examination
‘The M’Naughten rule: if the accused knew the nature of his act… then he is responsible for his actions’
The name of the law that Lowell Lee Andrews’ defence team the, but fail to use
‘The Durham rule, which is that an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act is the product of mental disease or mental defect
Criminal psychologist taking about Perry during the trial
‘When Smith attacked Mr Clutter he was under a mental eclipse, deep inside a schizophrenic darkness’
Description of Lowell Lee Andrews - this was the title of a story written about him in a local newspaper
‘The nicest Boy in Wolcott’
Capote describing Lowell Lee Andrews
‘Lowell Lee Andrews fancied himself an ice-hearted master criminal; he wanted to wear gangsterish silk shirts and drive scarlet sports cars; he wanted to be recognised as no mere bespectacled, bookish, overweight schoolboy’
Perry describing his feelings after several years in death row
‘It seemed to Perry as though he exposed ‘deep underwater’
Dick talking about the death penalty shortly before his death
‘What’s there to say about capital punishment? Revenge is all it is, but what’s wrong with revenge?
Dick talking just before hanging
‘You people are sending me to a better world than this ever was’
Perry talking just moments before his hanging. Capote is using a perry to comment on the unfairness of capital punishment
‘I think… it’s a helluva thing to galena life in this manner. I don’t believe in capital punishment, morally or legally. Maybe Inhad something to contribute, something - It would be meaningless to apologise for what I did. Even inappropriate. But I do’
