The Great Depression sets the seen for what's to come, inside a prison, on Death Row where men succumb, to the charges that they're passed, other states might have them gassed, either way, they've had their day, thy will be done. Then John Coffey walks the mile and takes a cell, a gentle giant, quite un-defiant, casts a spell; as the residents reduce, restorative magic is produced, in a place, no one should face, a living hell. At the end you might just be at a small loss, was the chair a metaphor for some old cross, or perhaps you might compute, that it's wrong to execute, or just maybe, you'd like to, electrocute.