The work of Truman Capote " In Cold Blood" is not only the first- true crime novel, but also a psychological and sosyological novel which is non-fiction. When Capote reads the news in the New York Times, he becomes interested in the murderers of four members of the Herbert Clutter family. As a result of a deep investigation and interviews with the killers, he presents the book, “In Cold Blood” to us. In his interview with the murderers, the author also deals with their psychological state and reveals the reasons for their tendency to crime. However, at the end of the work, we forget about the brutally committed murders and pity the killers and wish them salvation. Isn't the writer's narrative the reason we feel this way? I mean, the author believes Perry is innocent, and not only the author, Perry also believes he is innocent.
At the end of the book, we cannot help thinking the following two questions; the first is that who is the culprit, the perpetrator or the reasons/persons that cause the crime? Experiences can alienate a person from life, isolate a person from society, hate those who have happiness that a person does not have, but this is not a sufficient reason for a person to become a murderer. Indeed, the history of many successful personalities is not good. The other is that does having bad parents or having childhood traumas make every person a murderer? For the second question, if our answer is yes, we support Durham Rule which is simply that an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act is the product of mental disease or mental defect. Vice versa, if our answer is no, we support The M’ Naghten Rule which recognizes no form of insanity provided the defendant has the capacity to discriminate between right and wrong— legally, not morally. At