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A Time to Kill is a novel written about how a ten-year old black girl named Tonya Hailey’s life was shattered when two rednecks beat and raped her, and then how her father took the law into his own hands and decided their punishment himself. Tonya was walking home from the grocery store when the two rednecks, Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard, saw her. They threw full beer cans at her, breaking her flesh right down to the bone. Taking turns, they straddled her and forcefully and brutally raped her. They tied her to a tree with ropes burning through her skin while they drank and laughed at her. When they had decided their fun was done, they threw her in the back of Billy Ray Cobb’s yellow pickup truck and found an abandoned bridge, where they threw her to die. A family nearby found her and brought Tonya home. Her father, Carl Lee, was called form the mill earlier but took his time coming home because his wife had a habit of worrying too much and so he thought it was just another scare. When he walked in the door and saw his little girl all beat up, anger built up inside of him. He carried her to the ambulance where they rushed her to the hospital. Elsewhere, the sheriff of Ford County, Ozzie Walls, was arresting Bi