Drawing from Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, why Dick and Perry deserve the death penalty? I have two reasons: they are a threat to society, and they...

One way
to approach the issue of rationalizing or justifying the imposition of capital punishment in the
specific case of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock is to cite the comments made by County Attorney
Duane West in Part IV of s account of the real-life 1959 murder of the Clutter
family, .   Addressing reporters, West was quoted as
saying:

I feel that due to the violence of the
crime and the apparent utter lack of mercy shown the victims, the only way the public can be
absolutely protected is to have the death penalty set against these defendants. This is
especially true since in Kansas there is no such thing as life imprisonment without possibility
of parole. Persons sentenced to life imprisonment actually serve, on the average, less then
fifteen years."

Utilizing this quote,
which includes the two reasons specified in the question €“ punishment for the crime and
protection of society €“ one can note the extension of that second reason: the fact
that,...