He enlists the help of guards Brutal, Dean, and Harry to break Coffey out of prison temporarily, so he can cure Melinda with his healing touch. Paul decides he must atone for his complicity in Delacroix’s painful death by helping Warden Hal Moores’ wife, Melinda, with her brain tumor. The rest of the guards are furious with Percy as they have grown fond of Delacroix and believe he did not deserve such a horrific death. As a result, he prolongs the pain of Delacroix’s death and his body burns over the course of his excruciating execution. When Delacroix sits at Old Sparky, the electrocution chair, Percy intentionally omits the brine on the sponge of Delacroix’s helmet. Furious and embarrassed, Percy vows to take revenge on Delacroix on the day of his execution.

Delacroix makes the mistake of laughing at Percy. One day, Wharton grabs guard Percy Wetmore from his cell and scares the guard into wetting his pants. A reckless and violent man, he attempts to choke Dean Stanton to death at first meeting. Meanwhile, William Wharton joins The Green Mile as an inmate after a wild crime spree. The rest of the guards, Brutus “Brutal” Howell, Harry Terwilliger, and Dean Stanton witness the revival, and come to believe in Coffey’s magical abilities. Jingles, the pet mouse of another inmate, Eduard Delacroix, after the guard, Percy Wetmore stomps on it. Later, Coffey uses his healing powers again to revive Mr. Paul struggles to reconcile Coffey’s healing powers with the horrific nature of his crimes. One day, Coffey beckons him to his cell and cures Paul of his urinary tract infection.

Paul is unsettled by his gentle demeanor. He was found clutching the white girls’ dead bodies and despairing over their deaths. This is the same year that John Coffey, a large black man found guilty of murdering the Detterick family’s twin girls, arrives at Cold Mountain. In 1932, a 40-year old Paul is the supervising officer of Cold Mountain’s death row, formally referred to as E Block, but known commonly as The Green Mile, for the color of its linoleum floor. At Georgia Pines retirement home, an elderly Paul Edgecombe sets to write about the events of his time as a correctional officer at Louisiana’s Cold Mountain State Penitentiary with the help of his companion, Elaine Connelly.

The Green Mile by Stephen King