20 90s Movie Scenes That Traumatized Us All

This is trauma of the heartbreak kind. The execution of John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) is one of the saddest movie moments ever, the kind that makes pretty much everyone cry.

The Green Mile is set in a death row where a mysterious prisoner named John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) begins to perform miracles. John is a gentle and simple-minded giant, and the prison guards, led by Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), struggle to believe that he killed two little girls, as he was convicted for. As it turns out, they're absolutely right. 

John, using his gift, shows Paul that a fellow inmate killed the children, and as it turns out, John was actually trying to bring the girls back to life. Armed with this knowledge but unable to prove it, Paul offers to break John out, but John refuses. He's sick of sensing all the cruelty and suffering in the world and has chosen to die, so the officers reluctantly grant his final wish. 

Watching this kind and gentle character go to his death while the prison guards watch in anguish is nigh-on unbearable. All of these grown men are in floods of tears, which resembles just how viewers will be feeling. And when John begs them not to put the hood on because he's afraid of the dark... do you know what? It's too much to think about. Moving on...