Discuss how the book handles the relationship between law and morality with respect to the following: the death penalty; the insanity defense (M'Naghten vs. ... Would society allow rape as the penalty for rape or the burning of arsonists' homes as the penalty for arson? ... Is it morally passable for us to kill a person and call it justice or should it be our morals that force us to disagree with this allowable crime. Truman Capote explores this idea in his non-fiction book In Cold Blood. ... He places the reader right there in the room with its noose and its menacing hangman. ...

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