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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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‘Georgia Pines’ the nursing home in which aged Paul Edgecomb ( Dabbs Greer) tells the story of his time as a warder on Death Row at ‘Cold Mountain Penitentiary’, is Flat Top Manor, a 20-room mansion built in 1901 for Moses Cone, a prosperous textile entrepreneur.
Plot. 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
- March–August 1996
- 1996
- Signet Books
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.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Stephen King. 4.48. 322,038 ratings12,941 reviews. At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'.
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Jun 27, 2017 · Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk “the Green Mile,” the lime-colored linoleum corridor...
Apr 25, 1996 · Stephen King. 4.47. 17,328 ratings316 reviews. Cold Mountain Penitentiary has been home to many troubled souls. E Block, where the electric chair waits for those who must pay the ultimate price, has been home to the most troubled of all. And here, not all the evil is behind bars. Sometimes it carries a gun and wears a badge.
