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Featuring a first-person narrative told by Paul Edgecombe, the novel switches between Paul as an old man in the Georgia Pines nursing home writing down his story in 1996, and his time in 1932 as the block supervisor of the Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row, nicknamed "The Green Mile" for the color of the floor's linoleum.
- Stephen King
- 1996
Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, The Green Mile is the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul Edgecomb, the ward superintendent compelled to help ...
Stephen King. Cold Mountain Penitentiary is the main setting in the novel The Green Mile, as well as the film adaptation. It was the prison where Paul Edgecombe worked. In the Penitentiary there was a Death-Row Wing that the guards called The Green Mile, where prisoners John Coffey, Eduard Delacroix, and ...
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Jan 1, 1996 · For those who are unfamiliar with the story, The Green Mile is the nickname for the death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, a prison in Louisiana. During the 1930s, our protagonist Paul Edgecomb receives John Coffey into his custody as supervisor of the death row.
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At Cold Mountain, Paul supervises E block—the equivalent of what is commonly known as death row. E block has the nickname “the Green Mile” because of the color of the tiles in the long corridor leading up to the electric chair, where condemned inmates await executions in their cells.
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His companion Elaine becomes concerned, and Paul explains to her that the film reminded him of events that he witnessed when he was an officer at Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death row, nicknamed "The Green Mile".
“The Green Mile” is the nickname given to E block, or death row, at Cold Mountain Penitentiary—so called because of the color of the tiles in the long corridor leading up to the electric chair, where condemned inmates await executions in their cells.
