Ed is one of the other death-row inmates in the book club with Ray. He and Brian 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 crime. With this, Ed gestures to the idea that some of the inmates on death row are, in fact, innocent—Ray’s wrong conviction isn’t all that uncommon.
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Ed Horsely Character Timeline in The Sun Does Shine
The timeline below shows where the character Ed Horsely appears in The Sun Does Shine. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 15
...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 library but...
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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. Horsely told...
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Horsely says that he likes how the characters’ backstories shed light on their problems. He says...
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