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The story is about a white man named Leon who commits an act of violence and kills seven black men. The story follows John Weber, a lawyer who takes on the case. Weber is an opponent of the death penalty and finds out that Leon worked on death row. Weber becomes both shepherd and butcher in the case.
South Africa, 1987. When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard commits an inexplicable act of violence, killing seven black men in a hail of bullets, the outcome of the trial - and the court?s sentence - seems a foregone conclusion.
Hotshot lawyer John Weber reluctantly takes on the seemingly unwinnable case. A passionate opponent of the death penalty, John discovers that young Leon worked on death row in the nation?s most notorious prison, under traumatic conditions: befriending the inmates over the years while having to assist their eventual execution.
As the court hearings progress, the case offers John the opportunity to put the entire system of legally sanctioned murder on trial. How can one man take such a dual role of friend and executioner, becoming both shepherd and butcher?
Inspired by true events, this is the story that puts death penalty on trial and changes history.
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