TEXT OF DARROW'S EDITED SUMMATION (August 22-24, 1924)

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
      



An Act of Divine Providence Ridicule for the Defense's Mitigation Theory Just Crazy Enough
Ornithology and Urine Why No Lay Witnesses for Defense Age Should Not be a Defense
Cowboy Suits and Darrow's  Determinism Unnatural Lust in Paris Fainting and Licking Waiters
Easier to Prove One Insane than Two Pyschiatrists Quoted on Loeb The Lord at Dr. White's Age
Leopold Blackmailed Loeb for Sex Money is the Motive Why They Killed Bobby Franks
Leopold and Loeb are Emotionally Responsive The Hand of God at Work  A Little Bit of Remorse
Loeb Considered Killing Leopold Loeb May Attempt to Escape One Hurdle at a Time is Darrow's Theory
Heredity is Not Responsible for Loeb's Crime Leopold Killed Emotion on the Advice of Counsel Darrow is Wrong to Blame Nietzsche, Leopold's Family
The Weird and Uncanny Philosophy of Darrow Consider the Evidence, not  Oratory Beneath the Poppies in Flanders  Fields
 Darrow Appeals to Your Heart, not Your  Mind Doctrines of Anarchy Preached by Darrow Execute Justice and Righteousness in the Land

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