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

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 a 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

 

 CROWE'S SUMMATION FOR THE STATE - EXCERPTS

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 Determination

Unnatural Lust in Paris

Fainting and Licking Waiters

Easier to Prove One Insane Than Two

Psychiatrists 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 Responsible

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 Advice of Counsel

Darrow 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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