50 Movie Death Scenes That Left You TRAUMATISED

In the adaptation of Stephen King's The Green Mile, Michael Clarke Duncan gave audiences one of the most sympathetic movie characters of all time. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone on the big screen more undeserving of the fate John Coffey was forced to suffer at the hands of the electric chair. 

While his death is undoubtedly the saddest in the film, as the man is a genuine miracle worker and as innocent as the young girls he was convicted of killing, the most traumatic was that of Eduard Delacroix (Michael Jeter).

Del shared the Green Mile with the likes of John Coffey and Wild Bill (Sam Rockwell), and when it came time for him to die, his execution was sabotaged in the most brutal of ways. Earlier in the movie, it had been stressed how important it was to place a wet sponge on the head of the man in the chair, but for Del, Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison) purposefully omitted this step.

This was something close to revenge for Del laughing at him getting scared of Wild Bill, but mostly it was because Percy was a sadistic animal. Sure, Del wasn't innocent, he was on the Mile for a reason, but he certainly didn't deserve to suffer the way Percy forced him to, sizzling and quite literally spontaneously combusting before his heart finally stopped.