USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The two made a highly unusual pact: Loeb, who was gay, agreed to participate in Leopold’s eccentric sexual practices in return for Leopold’s cooperation with his criminal endeavors. Both were convinced that their intelligence and social privilege exempted them from the laws that bound other people.

Detailed explanation-2: -Loeb and Leopold were two white American university students from prominent, wealthy families who kidnapped a child from a wealthy family and demanded a ransom for the child’s safe return. The child died while in their care.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Loeb and Leopold families hired Clarence Darrow and Benjamin Bachrach to represent the two boys. Darrow took the case in large part because it gave him a platform to attack the death penalty, which he had called “an abomination."