Clarence Darrow's Summation in the Leopold and Loeb Trial

SELECTED EXCERPTS FROM SUMMATION:

Darrow's Argument Begins	The Most Dastardly Act in the Annals of Crime	Cash Had Nothing to Do with It
The Killing Was Not for Money	Loeb, Detective Stories, and the Perfect Crime	A Purposeless, Motiveless Act
As They Might Kill a Spider	The Life of Childhood	A Weird, Almost Impossible Relationship
This Was Not a Normal Act	Eating Watermelons	Nothing Happens Without a Cause
All Life is a Series of Infinite Chances	Any Mother Might Be the Mother	The Moving Finger Writes
Impotent Pieces in the Game He Plays	Hearts Calloused by War	If These Boys Are to Hang, You Must Do It
Save Two Honorable Families From Disgrace	Money Is a Handicap	The Death of Bobby Franks Should Not Be in Vain
If There Is Such a Thing as Justice	Leopold: An Intellectual Machine Without Balance	Trampling on the Edges of the Constitution
Too Young to Hang	When They Burned People Thirteen Years of Age	Progress Opposed by Prosecutors
Let the State Set an Example	Precedents that Would Disgrace a Savage Race	Will it Help the Children?
Wakened in the Gray Light of Morning	Cruelty Breeds Cruelty	Year Following Year
Nothing but the Night	Obsessed with a Deep Feeling of Hate	So I Be Written in the Book of Love