The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
fidence in our laws and in our justice that will waver
if we fail to see that the defendants here are prop-
erly punished.
You will so stabilize the administration of the law
here that all will realize that it applies to them no
matter what their station in life may be.
And without going into it, your Honor, your Honor
well knows what juries have said in your court room,
and in other court rooms since your Honor has
been the Chief Justice of this court, that murder
must stop, and the only way you will stop
murder is by hanging the murderers; and if your
Honor hangs these two murderers, it will set an
example to the others, if we have any of them among
us, that justice is swift, and that justice is sure, and
that if they fail to live up to the law they will re-
ceive its sure and certain penalty.
Speech of Walter Bachrach
If Your Honor Please, Gentlemen:
THE
position of the defense in this case has
been much distorted in the arguments of the
State's Attorneys who have preceded me, as well
as in the daily press, and therefore it is my desire
at the outset to make clear our position with regard
to the subject of mental disease in this case.
We raise no issue as to the legal sanity of these
defendants and make no contention that by reason
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