Killing Time

Author: John Grisham
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Publish Date: 1997-08-01
Features: The story takes place in a small town in the Southern United States, where a 10-year-old daughter of a Black worker is beaten, gang-raped, and abandoned in the wilderness by two white youths. After the incident, the two white men were arrested and put on trial, but they were shot and killed by the girl's father on the steps of the courthouse. As a result, the father was also arrested and put on trial.