In a small city in Jasper county, Arkansas, local billionaire Phillip Bates is a philanthropist who spends his days helping improve the town and the lives of the people in it. After his life is shattered when local law enforcement fails to protect his family, Phillip takes the law into his own hands and executes a racist police officer in cold blood. As he finds himself on trial for his life, will the people he's worked so hard to help and protect find him guilty of murder? Will his businesses that employ thousands of people be forced to close? This riveting courtroom drama explores racism and police brutality followed by swift justice when it becomes A Time To Kill.