In Cold Blood

                             Ballade des Pendus

                Human brothers who live after us,
                Do not have (your) hearts hardened against us,
                For, if you take pity on us poor (fellows),
                God will sooner have mercy on you.

                                      - Francois Villon

Perry Edward Smith is led by Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent Clarence Dentz, left, as he was returned to the Finney County Courthouse in Garden City, Kan., Jan. 6, 1960. Smith was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with first degree murder in the slaying of four members of the Herbert Clutter family at their farm house in Holcomb, Kan. (AP Photo/William Straeter)