Circumstantial Evidence
Pete Earley, author of The Hot House, visits Monroeville, Alabama, which Harper Lee fictionalized into the setting for To Kill A Mockingbird. However, it seems that racial tensions have not died down much in the town since the publication of Lee`s novel. In 1986, an 18-year-old white woman was shot and killed in a dry cleaning store. Four months later, another white teenager was killed in a town 36 miles away. Johnny D. McMillian, a Black man with no prior criminal record, was convicted of the crimes and sentenced to death with a swiftness that didn`t seem to unsettle anyone, except a Harvard-educated northern Black lawyer named Bryan Stevenson appealed the case and ultimately won.

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