And again I say, that is all I have tried to do. This book is not an attack on any person, on the death penalty, or on anything else, though if it makes people think about these things, so much the better. I think I believe in the death penalty--I don't know. But I did not believe in Harry being shot. That is the gist of it; that my friend Harry was shot for cowardice--and he was one of the bravest men I ever knew.