"It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts."
"In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here"
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Source: Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, Vintage
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