with malice aforethought

Capote had no doubt that Ann — “Mrs. Bang Bang,” he once called her to her face — had offed her husband with malice aforethought, but in Montillo’s telling the evidence is less than clear-cut.

“And it is his prerogative when life begins and ends, and it is not up to us, because the definition of murder that I go by is the unjust taking of human life with malice aforethought.”

Legal experts have described these actions as constituting criminal fraud and conspiracy, with malice aforethought.

Everything he has done in his whole life has been with malice aforethought.

“We are in this position with malice aforethought,” he says.