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A list of authorized witnesses to the execution of Perry Smith created by the Kansas State Penitentiary. This item is part of Smith's inmate case file, no. 14747. Smith and his accomplice Richard Hickock were convicted of 1st degree murder for the brutal 1959 killings of Herb and Bonnie Clutter, their daughter, Nancy, and son, Kenyon, in Holcomb, Kansas. The murders inspired the non-fiction novel "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. Capote's signature is the last entered on this list.
Creator: Kansas State Penitentiary
Date: April 14, 1965
Item Number: 208965
Call Number: State Penitentiary, Inmate Files, Executed Prisoners, Box 1 Folder 14747
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 208965
Collections - State Archives - Corrections, Department of
Date - 1960s - 1965
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Murder
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Prisoners
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Punishment - Death penalty
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Case file
People - Notable Kansans - Clutter family
People - Notable Kansans - Smith, Perry Edwards, 1928-1965
Places - Cities and towns - Lansing
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Thematic Time Period - The Sixties and Vietnam, 1961 - 1975
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
https://www.kansasmemory.gov/item/208965
