A common theme throughout this last section of In Cold Blood is the murderers’ lack of respect for human life. Dick, Perry, and the other residents of Death Row all display a carefree attitude toward their crimes. Dick and Perry appear relaxed and untroubled while in the Garden City jail and during their trial and continue to give this impression while on Death Row. They are described as spending their time singing, reading and socializing. While he’s in jail, “…Hickock seemed to one and all an unusually untroubled young man” (262).When Perry describes his and Dick’s reactions after the murders to an investigator, he states that, “I think we both felt very high…Very high, and very relieved at the same time” (256). It seems as if the lives they ended had no effect on them, other than elation. Later, while speaking to his friend Donald Cullivan, Perry says: “Am I sorry?...I’m not. I don’t feel anything about it… nothing about it bothers me a bit” (291). Other residents of death row express similar feelings about their crimes. Dick says to Lowell Lee Andrews, “…You’ve got no respect for human life. Including your own” (318). Andrews agrees with this statement. The two newest residents of death row, Ronald York and James Douglas Latham, express no regret for their killing spree. York goes as far as saying, “Anyway, anybody you kill, you’re doing them a favor” (323).