The sentences where the lawyer portrays Jefferson as a person devoid of rationality and less intelligent than an animal, underscore the lawyer's racist ideas.
The lawyers' words underscore racist stereotypes that white people thought about black people. Although he wants to save Jefferson from execution, he belittles Jefferson and portrays him as something inhuman and unworthy.
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