Yes.
He tortured Dell to death. Why, Dell laughed at him once.
He also attempted to break Dell's heart by killing his mouse.
He was a horrible human being. What he did to Dell was worthy of his outcome.
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Did he deserve to be turned into a vegetable?
Yes.
Remember that dell more than likely did something awfull to be on death row.
Which is why he got sentenced to death. That's the price he has to pay for his crime. He wasn't sentenced to be tortured by Percy
Again Percy is portrayed a real scumbag but as far as we know he hasent killed/raped anyone.
He intentionally caused another man to go through horrible suffering before his death. As far as I'm concerned, torture is worst than murder.
personally I actually take that stance than the ones the guards have in being pally pally with the death row scum
Life will eventually teach you that everything isn't so black & white. Look at Caffey. He was sentenced to death, but clearly didn't deserve it. If you'd stop at his sentence and the crime he allegedly committed, you'd be tempted to torture the guy to death. Do you think that would that make you a "good" guy?
Prison guards have a job, and they're doing it. Simple as that. One of the simplest way for prison guards to get their job done is to avoid provoking inmates who have nothing to lose; never forget about the context of being on death row Better be "friendly" with the guys and avoid getting shanked (or lessen the risk/probability, at least), as far as I'm concerned.

Percy wasn't a criminal but he was a sociopath with no compassion or regard for human beings who was in charge and control of others. That makes him a monster.

and personally I actually take that stance than the ones the guards have in being pally pally with the death row scum
It feels as if you didn't watch The Green Mile. Somehow, you've gotten an entirely different message and in the wrong way. This movie teaches respect, tolerance and morality; not hatred, indecency and murder.
Also, Percy brought his punishment upon himself.
It seems to me like learning to forgive could do you (and those who support the death sentence) some good. The death sentence is as vile as murder itself and it is against the Moral Code and against the teachings of Christianity (for those who choose it as their religion).
Quoting John Coffey:
Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.

I think we must realise people commit heinous crimes are still people, at least some of them are who can repent their actions like Del did. He was full of regrets. He remembers the most beautiful times he spent before, wish he could go back there. God forgives those who repent with all their hearts. None can deny Del didn't deserve such a consideration irrespective of what he did. And none probably would have felt he be let off death penalty. He is still going to die but he deserves to die with dignity. This is the mark of a civil society, right?
Percy's actions are quite disgusting. Despite being a meek, cowardly person he takes sadistic pleasure in making restrained people suffer. What he did to Dan is unspeakable crime done to someone who regretted his actions AND is going to die. Percy deserved harsh punishment, otherwise there may quite likely be a lot more Del's as John could see through his hands (whether or not he continued at E5 or had gone to the mental hospital). So to me, I am absolutely in favour of whatever happened to Percy, he deserved it
As for your views on taking his stance, I really do not what to say. I, like the mass audience I guess favoured how Paul & Brutal treated the criminals.

So Percy done not get turned into a vegetable.he later reports his imprisonment in solitary confinement and get Paul, Brutus and others fired from their jobs and perhaps even serve prison timein the meantime the dirt-bag Percy climbs the ladder of success using his many connections.The End.
Sounds about right!!
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"Again Percy is portrayed a real scumbag but as far as we know he hasent killed/raped anyone"
He never killed anyone, he just happens to work on death rowwait, what?
"he just seems to have abit of a fetish in seeing these scumbags on death row really suffer, and personally I actually take that stance than the ones the guards have in being pally pally with the death row scum"
It's alright to torture murdering, sadistic sum just so long as the murdering, sadistic sum doesn't have any authoritative power. Yeah, that all seems perfectly fair and balanced.
It always amuses me how people will complain about killers and sadists being coddled, but when they happen to be authority figures, these same people are always the first to coddle them. For example, any HLN viewer: "Poor wittle jaun martinez; he was just getting paid large sums of money to yell at people as he sends them to their deaths and the defended TALKED BACK TO HIM! Whaaa!"
And because most of the population is neurotypical no one is able to see the irony.

I am only about a half hour into this movie and I have never watched it before but I can already tell that Percival [he has no business being called by a nickname] is the biggest douche to walk onto ANY SET.
he thinks he can do what he pleases, including throwing his baton at will just because he exchanges Christmas presents with the governor. I hate people like him. the rules don't apply to them and they suck at being human beings.
they have no souls.
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The movie makes it seem like Percy was being bullied by the other guards. I guess you cant show everything from the book in a movie, but the guy was constantly threatening the other characters to have them fired for any little thing he didnt like (in a time where just having a job was like being rich).
Also in the book, when Del (a small guy) just arrived at the mile, Percy beat him senseless for no reason at all. I think he did that just to have fun and because he could. Percy himself was small, so he enjoyed torturing weaker beings than him. It was heavily implied (if not outright stated on the book), that Percy would have tortured the mental patients for his own amusement, had him being moved there (the old Paul framing story had a modern day Percy torturing him later on the book, being all "you cant do anything about it because Ill just say you had dementia).
In short, I think Percy was a more sinister and threatening character in the book, while still being quite pathetic. Just before reaching the point where Coffey infects him, I was hoping for him to just die (maybe being killed by Wharton). What happened was almost better: he survived, but unable to hurt anyone anymore (only Billy that is).
Also, I think Will Bill was much more threatening in the book, in the movie he almost seems like comic relief (until the reveal of course).

I can understand why people would question why Coffey would do what he did, but I have no real problem with it.
In the books, they make several things abundantly clear about Percy:
1: He doesn't care about anyone but himself. He routinely threatens people he disliked with "the breadlines", and in the Depression-era south, that was a BIG threat.
2: He is abusive to the prisoners not because he hates their crimes, but because he enjoys being mean and abusive. Percy likes being mean, and working in a prison is a perfect way to practice that because it's less likely that he'd be questioned or called out for it.
3: Percy is not afraid to do something wrong; he is only afraid of being caught doing something wrong. "Getting in trouble" is something he tries to avoid, usually through his family connections.
4: Percy hated Delacroix with a passion. Even Paul didn't quite understand WHY this was; he just recognized it was true.
5: Percy knew exactly what would happen with the dry sponge, because he was told. He'd been asking Van Hay, the guy who usually flipped the switch, to tell him all about what the sponge was for and what would happen if it wasn't wet. One reason he puts in for his transfer as quickly as he does is to get out of there before anyone finds out he was asking so many questions about it before the execution took place.
Given Percy's behavior and personality, I think he'd have been even worse at the mental hospital, where the patients would have no protection at allnot even the "release" of execution. Percy is like a cruel child poking a cat with a stick or burning ants with a magnifying glass. He wants to see what happens. But in his case, he's practicing his perversions on people, not animals. He chose to be a death row guard for a reasonhe wanted to see someone electrocuted up close and in person. If he finds that fun, you have to wonder what kind of sick sh!t he'd do in mental hospital.
So I think Coffey KNEW what Percy was like, possibly better than anyone else, and didn't want him to be turned loose on a hospital full of people who couldn't protect themselves. So, he did what he could to stop it, short of actually hurting or killing him. He's no longer a threat to anyone, and never will be.
Here's to the health of Cardinal Puff.

Hell ya. Percy got exactly what he deserved. He was a bully, a coward and plain evil. But Wild Bill made him look a ,ittle better in comparison.

I wanted that little fcker dead after he stepped on Mr. Jingles.
"Mr. Treehorn treats objects like women, man."

We are asked by this movie to believe in the reality of evil. There are good people and bad people and JC can see who is which. Disease and injury, as some sort of anti-life forces, are of the same kind as the evil in human beings like WIld Bill and Percy. And the substance of evil even becomes visible as
a swarm of flies - or whatever those small black things are

• when JC "takes it out".
  We are so used to the idea that we human beings are the proper judges of other people, though the legal system and the court of public opinion, that it can be hard to accept this. Earlier, more religious societies thought than only God could look into men's hearts and judge them for who they are. In the movie JC has this ability, and so seeks to do good by removing evil. For him, it is not the human consequences of his actions, judged in our terms, that are important. Since we are incapable of perceiving evil directly, we are blind to the reality in which he lives. For the most part, we judge that actions removing evil are "good" in our terms too, but in the case of what happened to Percy, we are not so sure and start asking questions about whether he "deserved" it. I don't think JC would have seen it in those terms at all. Pushing the example to the limit, it would have been conceivable, although dramatically unacceptable, for Percy to have had the evil inside him without ever doing anything cruel or worthy of punishment, or at least being much less cruel than shown in the movie, and that JC would have treated him the same. [And this gap between what he can know and what we can know is the danger of a metaphysics of evil that is perceivable only by some special people - it can easily be abused, as the history of religious persecution shows us.] The treatment of WIld BIll also shows that JC was motivated only by the eradication of evil not by "punishment" as such. After all, WB is on death row. He is going to die soon by electrocution
• hardly a lesser punishment than being shot by Percy
  . JC just couldn't stand the presence of evil,
  so much so that he welcomed his own death, not because he was tired of life (as Paul appears to be at the end of the movie) but because there was too much evil in the world for him to bear.
  Despite our admiration for the "good men" of the story, their humanity and courage, and the burst of joy we feel at
  seeing an old mouse defying death
  , the underlying vision is very bleak. We live in a world in which evil is everywhere and we lack even JC's ability to see it clearly let alone remove it.

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I take great exception to your line of lunacy. A proven fact conservatives have a lower IQ.. Right. How about an idiot that believes anything Obama Says??? How about those that blindly follow ANY politician. Liberals in the classic mode may be as you state. However, those whom call themselves liberals today are mostly hypocrites. Today's liberal believes in free expression - as long as it is acceptable to him.
I am with you on the drug issue. Torture??? My God Man!! These Islamic wackos are busy cutting people's heads off, and you are worried about a little water dribbled up a terrorists nose???
The constitution??? All big government types like shredding that. Most politicians are bought and sold long before gaining national prominence.
Here is a thought. Today's liberals decry loss of liberty at the hand of government while all the time handing government more power. Does that seem very SMART to you??
I have a suggestion. Google 'Frederic Bastiat's The Law.' That little tome is not very long. A literate person can get through it in a couple hours. Mr. Bastiat delineates the only real function of government.
Finally - Get your head out of a categorization's arse and think for yourself. Question your own beliefs. Follow them to their logical conclusions.

I reread the book recently, and the script. I've rethought some things and regret what I posted. I can't type that I agree with you about the death penalty or that conservatives have low I.Q's however. Sounds like liberal hogwash.
If prisoners are on death row, I agree with Edgecomb's philosophy on keeping the inmates calm and treating them humanely as long as they obey the rules. They are there to die after all, so punishing them anymore then what is necessary is useless and cruel.
I just feel bad whenever one person is singled out by a group, but Percy was wrong with his choices and didn't belong on the Green Mile.
Paul Edgecomb believed in the death penalty too, but he never allowed his personal opinions to interfere with his duties.
I suspect John Coffey knew something about Percy that the others didn't because in the book he refers to Percy as a "bad man" just like he called Wild Bill a "bad man". In the film, he calls them both "bad men".
Paul Edgecomb however is a very good man. He's tough, but fair. He's a great leader. He didn't put up with any of Wild Bill's nonsense and he allowed Percy to shout "Dead Man Walking!", but I suspect if Paul hadn't told him to stop, who knows how long Percy would have kept shouting. He also stopped Brutal twice from giving Percy a beat down. Paul and the guards also clearly had sympathy for Percy when he wet himself. Brutal even told Del to learn when to shut up after Del laughed at Percy, so they are all good men who don't put up with any nonsense.
They are all good examples of how us men should be - Tough, but compassionate and fair who only resort to violence when it's only the last resort.

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I just read through the book again the other day, and there's no mention that Percy had any siblings at all.

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Not sure if OP understands what a psychopath is.
The most interesting thing was Wild Bill attacking Percy. Percy is not very much different from Wild Bill hes just inexperienced. Its not only in the acts by Percy, its the things he saysenough of which were kept for the film as to make it abundantly clear Percy is a psychopath. And as wild bill insinuates through observation, after handling Percy, that Percys freezing during the attempted breakout/strangling was more in part to his interests and his "noodle" than any real want for the situation to end. Percy is just new to italot of psychopaths prefer jobs where they are in charge of others who need assistance. Percy also has a sister whose more powerful than himwhich might also be something.
Basically he is psychopath with a badge. And as wild bill and the guards would agree He is the piss pants pussy of the psychopath world. There is good reason percy goes in the straight jacket and into a padded roomand why his last destination/punishment is to be a vegetable in a mental hospital where likely half the staff have some level of psychopathic thoughts.
I think some people might want to see psychiatrists if they feel percy was mistreated.

I see a scene involving Percy and a wood chipper.