The Green Mile
Stephen King • 1996
Devastation Rating
prison injustice literary fiction grief loss
Our Take
Death row in a Southern prison in the 1930s, and a man who should not be there. King writes John Coffey's goodness with such care that executing him becomes unbearable to witness — and Paul Edgecombe has to live long enough to feel the full weight of that. A horror novel whose true horror is judicial murder.
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