A Time To Kill is by the internationally acclaimed best seller of crime, John Grisham. Set in Clanton, Mississippi back when there was great division between white and black people and when the Ku Klux Klan was most prominent is when this story takes place.
Should a lesser crime be acquitted in face of a more heinous one? This is the question the jury has to ask themselves in the case of Carl Lee Hailey who guns down the 2 boys who have raped his ten-year-old daughter. To make things more complicated, Carl is black, the 2 men he executed were white and so is the jury!…
