In the Leopold and Loeb trial of 1924, attorney Clarence Darrow achieved what many thought impossible. He saved the lives of two cold-blooded child-killers with the power of a speech. Nathan ...

Thanks in large part to nonstop media coverage, the relatively straightforward hearing (Leopold and Loeb pled guilty, so they didn’t face a trial by jury) became a mirror for the anxieties of ...

Leopold and Loeb were both scions of families worth multi ... He changed their plea to guilty, essentially avoiding a trial and going straight to a sentencing hearing. For 12 hours, Darrow argued ...

To save Leopold and Loeb from the gallows, their parents hired the best defense attorney money could buy: Clarence Darrow, best known for his subsequent role in the “Scopes Monkey Trial.” ...

The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he saved the child-killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb from the death penalty. The Scopes trial would bring him even greater notoriety.