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The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men.  Her mostly white town of Clanton, Mississippi reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime.  That is, until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes matters into his hands.  For the next ten days young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life, and then his own . . .

A searing courtroom drama, A Time to Kill is a riveting story of retribution and justice that probes the savage depths of racial violence.