When Percy is offered an administrative position at the nearby Briar Ridge Paul's long-simmering suspicions that John is innocent are proven right when he discovers that it was actually Wharton who raped and killed the two girls and that John was trying to revive them. Paul and the other guards are irritated throughout the book by Percy Wetmore, a sadistic guard who enjoys antagonizing the prisoners. John says later that the mouse felt what he felt. The laws hadn't been changed to, say, profile a person like Percy for his mental illness. Elaine dies shortly after, never learning how Paul's wife died in his arms immediately after they suffered a bus accident, and that he then saw John Coffey's ghost watching him from an overpass. Percy, however, might have come out clean because of his connections to the governor's office.
John Coffey has been convicted of murdering two young girls and sentenced to death but there's something about him that makes Paul question whether this man could have committed that crime. No one understood their brutal deaths, not even the man who killed them. In the short story The Little Sisters of Eluria, King describes "Doctor Bugs", which are parasitic organisms that first heal people so that they might feed on them slowly. When Coffey tried to revive the little girls, he mentioned that he tried to "take it back", suggesting that sickness and death are phenomena that can invade a person, but can also be taken out again. [...] Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other.
The sabotage of Del's execution is something that might not have gone unnoticed by the proper authorities, however, Paul, Brutal, Dean, Harry and Warden Moores are able to cover it up since their jobs are at stake as much as Percy's would be. If Percy felt that he was being mistreated, he'd simply call his mother or the Governor himself and complain like a spoiled child.
Paul seems to be all alone, now 104 years old, and wondering how much longer he will live. Paul finishes telling his story about John Coffey to Elaine, but she doesn't seem convinced, so he takes her on a walk out to the abandoned cabin where she is introduced to a mouse sleeping in a Marsh Wheeling cigar box. Later, John tells Paul what he saw when Wharton grabbed his arm one time, how Wharton had coerced the sisters to be silent by threatening to kill one if the other made a noise, using their love for each other. Then, Percy shooting and killing Wild Bill ruined any chance of him ever admitting to the crime. The Green Mile is based on the 1996 novel of the same name, written by Stephen King. On a less pragmatic note: John Coffey himself admits that, prisoner or no, his life is one of constant pain and suffering, as a result of his sensitivity to the evil in the world. Paul had no physical evidence to prove that John was innocent. John Coffey is a protagonist character from the book The Green Mile. He is a wild-acting, dangerous multiple murderer who is determined to make as much trouble as he can before he is executed. His wife Janice was killed in a bus accident in Alabama in 1956. Water, particularly salt water, is a good conductor of electricity. .
The Green Mile was originally published as a six-part serial story. Think of it as the physical manifestation of whatever disease or sickness John "sucked" out of those he helped. Having the brine-soaked sponge causes the electricity to move in a more efficient line, thus killing the prisoner faster (in the film, this is described as a "bullet straight to the brain).
Brutus "Brutal" Howell died of a heart attack while eating a fish sandwich, Harry Terwilliger died in 1982 of intestinal cancer, and Dean Stanton was stabbed in the neck by a prisoner four months after John Coffey was executed.
Later, John tells Paul what he saw when Wharton grabbed his arm one time, how Wharton had coerced the sisters to be silent by threatening to kill one if the other made a noise, using their love for each other. The other guards have to be civil to him despite their dislike of him because he is the nephew of the Governor's wife.
There seemed to be enough time to stop it...What did John Coffey shoot out of his mouth everytime he healed someone?Why wasn't Wild Bill a suspect in the murder of the little girls?Once Paul learned the truth that Wild Bill killed the girls, why didn't he try to file an appeal for John Coffey? Paul feels that John "infected" him and Mr Jingles with his gift of life, admitting that he is 108 years old, and that he believes this is his punishment for letting a miracle of God die in the electric chair. John's execution is the last one in which Paul participates. John's knowledge of the details would have only convinced a jury that John indeed had committed the crime.