In the movie A Time To Kill, Carl Lee Haley’s idea of justice was the murder of the men who raped and beat his 10 year old daughter. The meaning of “justice” is a very personal thing. In Carl Lee Haley’s mind, what he did was his own definition. He felt that the two men deserved death, and I agree with him. I don’t know that I myself would be able to actually shoot them both dead, but I’ve never been in his situation and hope that I never will be. Care Lee Haley knew that it was unlikely that the two white men would ever be prosecuted particularly on a base of race. The case where Carl Lee Haley was tried in a primarily white town in Mississippi, this made the scales of “justice” in the trial uneven giving him an unfair disadvantage. The color of Carl Lee Haley’s skin and that of his daughter’s should not matter but unfortunately Mississippi has been a historically racist state. Because of this, Haley had no due process, he was treated unfairly. Even though he won the case, his freedom would still be clouded with racism in America.
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