The name of the book is Time to Kill

Time To Kill Two white men, Billy Ray Lobb and Pete Williard rape the 10-year-old black girl Tonga. Everybody in the town is upset with the incident and the two men are found quickly and brought into jail. At the bail hearing Tonga's father, Carl Lee Hailey, shoots the two rapists and now the town is split into two sides. One side understands Carl because a lot of fathers would have done the same thing …

…because of a mostly white county, because of the Ku Klux Klan which "lives again" in Clanton, because of a win-at-all costs prosecutor, because of the racism and hypocrisy of the Mississippi citizens and judicial system. This book illustrates how no matter how much the world tries to say they "celebrate their diversity" or "look past the differences," you have to look no farther than a small Mississippi town to see how untrue this is.