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Stephen King

The Green Mile

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

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Part 6, Chapters 10-13Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 6: Coffey on the Mile

Chapter 10 Summary

At Coffey’s execution, Klaus and Marjorie Detterick are in the audience. Marjorie swears at Coffey as he passes, wanting vengeance for her dead girls. Coffey is frightened by the audience’s hatred. Brutal tells Coffey to think of the guards who know him, but it does not seem to reassure him. Harry begins to cry. The guards attempt to set up the execution as tenderly as possible while Marjorie yells from her seat. Coffey appears frightened. When Brutal is about to put a mask over Coffey’s face, he cries out that he is afraid of the dark. Paul tells Brutal to put the mask away as a way of fulfilling Coffey’s last request. When the electrocution begins, the current is so strong that several lights blow out. As Coffey is being electrocuted, he catches Paul’s eye briefly. Shortly after, Coffey’s body goes limp and he is declared dead.

Chapter 11 Summary

By the time Paul returns home from the execution, it is dawn. Paul remembers how Coffey was afraid of the dark and begins to cry again. Janice sits with him and consoles him. 

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