Truman Capote investigates the relationship between law and morality in his non-fiction novel In Cold Blood using the death penalty, insanity plea and a reckoning with organised religion. ... Truman Capote explores this idea in his non-fiction book In Cold Blood. ... Perry Smith, though a murderer, becomes a sympathetic character in Part 2 of In Cold Blood. ... In Cold Blood demonstrated the fine line between law and morality by the way of the insanity plea. ...

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In Truman Capote's nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood, Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock were convicted of murdering the entire Clutter Family. ... The "evil bastard" would fill a tub with ice-cold water and hold helpless Perry under the water "until he turned blue". ... Statten recommended that "only the first murder matters psychologically when Smith attacked Mr.Clutter he was under a mental eclipsea schizophrenic darkness, for it was not entirely a flesh and blood man he 'suddenly discovered' himself destroying, but a key figure in some past traumatic configuration (his father? ......

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In Truman Capote's novel In Cold Blood, he recounts the gruesome murder of a well respected Kansas family. ... Clutter he was under a mental eclipse, deep inside a schizophrenic darkness, for it was not entirely a flesh-and-blood man he 'suddenly discovered' himself destroying, but 'a key figure in some past traumatic configuration': his father? ...

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"IN COLD BLOOD" The film In Cold Blood is an adaptation of Truman Capote's novel of the same name. ... For the sake of realism, In Cold Blood was filmed in Holcomb, Kansas at the Clutter farm where the actual murders took place as well as the other actual locations. ... Truman Capote also uses what one might call a teaser. ... I found the film to be a horrifying, chilling, blood curdling distasteful piece of cinema, but it definitely makes a point in the context of the human rights/ death penalty debate. ...

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