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The Green Mile is loosely inspired about the story of a real-life wrongful conviction and execution of George Stinney Jr. The movie is based in Louisiana’s Cold Mountain Penitentiary in 1935, where the prisoners get sentenced to the electric chair. The guard who is named Paul Edgecomb changes with the arrival of John Coffey, a giant, gentle Black man convicted of murdering two young girls, who possesses miraculous healing powers. As Paul and his colleagues witness Coffey cure illness and revive a mouse, they realize that he is innocent, but Percy Wetmore who is another guard, torments Coffey while the real murderer of those two young girls, Wild Bill, complicated matters for John. John Coffey finally accepts his his execution, leaving Paul with a profound moral dilemma and a gift of extended life as a punishment for not fighting to prove that John was wrongly accused and continued to let him get executed, forever marked by the miracle on the Mile.
