Capote creates sympathy for just about everyone in this book, and the killers aren’t excluded. However, his sympathy primarily focuses on Dick and Perry, and to a greater extent, just Perry. Capote’s reasoning for creating this sympathy is to formulate a platform for which to express his opinions on the death penalty by trying to make us feel sorry for Perry, who was full of regret after the crime. The book goes into great detail on Perry’s background and former life in an attempt to make him a much more human character, rather than just a crazy man who needs mental evaluation. Both of them, despite being given this sympathy, are still murderers that killed without a cause- a sign of serious mental illness, no