Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: ten-year old African American Tonya Hailey In fictional town of is abducted Clanton, Fact2: duo dump her after failed attempt to hang her, Fact3: district attorney decides to seek death penalty, Fact4: Freddie Lee Cobb plans to avenge brother Billy Ray 's death by enlisting help of Mississippi branch of Ku Klux Klan and Grand Dragon, Fact5: husband ends up dying of fatal heart attack brought on by assault
Output (English): In the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi, tenyear old African American Tonya Hailey is abducted, raped, and beaten by two white supremacists, Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard. The duo dump her in a nearby river after a failed attempt to hang her. Tonya survives, and the two men are arrested by Sheriff Ozzie Walls. Tonyas father, Carl Lee Hailey, contacts Jake Brigance, a white lawyer who previously defended his brother. Brigance admits the possibility that the rapists will walk free. Carl Lee goes to the county courthouse and opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing both rapists and unintentionally injuring Deputy Dwayne Looney with a ricochet, whose leg is later amputated. Carl Lee is arrested and Brigance agrees to defend him. The rape and subsequent revenge killing gain national media attention. The district attorney, Rufus Buckley, decides to seek the death penalty, and presiding Judge Omar Noose denies Brigance a change of venue to a more ethnically diverse county, meaning that Carl Lee will have an allwhite jury. Brigance seeks help from his defense team: law student Ellen Roark, close friend Harry Rex Vonner, and former mentor and longtime activist Lucien Wilbanks, a oncegreat civil rights lawyer. Meanwhile, Freddie Lee Cobb plans to avenge his brother Billy Rays death by enlisting the help of the Mississippi branch of the Ku Klux Klan and its Grand Dragon, Stump Sisson. On the first day of the trial, the Klan rallies only to be outnumbered by counterprotesters consisting of the areas black and multiracial residents as well as some whites who support Carl Lee. The protest erupts into a riot that results in dozens of injuries and the death of Stump Sisson. The Klan also begins to target Brigance, assaulting his elderly secretary and her husband who ends up dying of a fatal heart attack brought on by the assault, burning a cross on his lawn and threatening his wife and daughter. When Brigance refuses to back down, Cobb kidnaps and assaults Roark. The Klan increases their attacks, including burning Brigances house. Dispirited, Brigance tells Carl Lee that there is little hope for an acquittal. Carl Lee replies that he had chosen him as an attorney because even a racist jury would listen to a white man; as one of the bad guys, he has an influence that a black man will never have. During closing arguments, a deeply shaken Brigance tells the jury to close their eyes and listen to a story. He describes, in slow and painful detail, the rape of a 10yearold girl, recalling the story of Tonyas rape. He then asks the jury, in his final comment, to now imagine shes white. After deliberation, a black child runs out of the courthouse and screams, Hes innocent! Jubilation ensues amongst the supporters outside. The Klan, enraged, begins yelling in anger. Meanwhile, Sheriff Walls arrests Freddie Lee for his crimes, as well as a corrupted deputy that was by Freddies side. Brigance brings his wife and daughter to a family cookout at Carl Lees house to celebrate his freedom.