Time TO Kill

I want you to close your eyes and think for a moment. Picture in your mind a patch of land in the South that's off a dirt road. There are trees everywhere, but only 3 people and a yellow truck. Two of the people you are to picture are boys somewhere in their twenties. They are drunk rednecks. The third person is a little black (this is how they are referred to in the book, I do not mean to be politically incorrect or disrespectful to anyone) girl about 10 years of age. She's tied to tree's, spread eagle. She has been beaten beyond recognition. She has been tortured, kicked, and raped repeatedly. She has been urinated on and orally assaulted. She is crying as softly as she can, to prevent another beating. She is wishing for her daddy to come.

Now, imagine she is you daughter. What would you do?

John Grisham's A Time to Kill is the story of Clanton, Mississippi, where two white boys rape, beat, and leave for dead little Tonya Hailey. The boys, Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard, are a...