Columns/Opinions
September 13, 2021
“I’s tired, Boss…pow’ful tired”
In the Tom Hanks’ hit movie, “The Green Mile,” a rather large inmate on death row named John Coffey (like the coffee but not spelled the same) who had special powers announces to Hank’s character, Paul Edgecomb, near the end of the movie as he is about to be put to death: “I’s tired, Boss…pow’ful tired.”