In the novel " Of Mice and Men ", i need some advice for a project!?

These days people MAY forgive this because of the problems Lennie had, but back during the Great Depression people like Lennie were treated like s**t! I, myself doing this project would say he was guilty, just because this is how it would have happened in those days. Now, that wouldn't be my reasoning, it would probably be just that a murder is a murder no matter the person