Brian is one of the other death-row inmates in the book club with Ray. He and Ed are sent to death row for a crime they committed together. However, Ed explains that he committed the crime alone, and policemen tortured Brian with a cattle prod until he confessed to the crime. Brian’s presence on death row speaks to the book’s overarching message that there are innocent people who are regularly and wrongly sentenced to death.
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Brian Baldwin Character Timeline in The Sun Does Shine
The timeline below shows where the character Brian Baldwin appears in The Sun Does Shine. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 15
...up. The first book club meeting consists of Jesse Morrison, Victor Kennedy, Larry Heath, Brian Baldwin, Ed Horsely, Henry, and Ray—five Black guys and two white guys. They use the law...
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Two of the guys in the book club, Baldwin and Horsely, are on death row for a crime they were accused of committing together....
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Baldwin points to a passage in which the main character, John, is cleaning his house. John...
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