In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months. [...] However, even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune [...].


Part 4 - In Cold Blood (1965)

Truman Capote Quotes

In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months....

In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months....

In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months....

In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months....