It would be against medical practice not to do so. Since the preparation is done by medical professionals, but not the actual administering of the poison, the practice to treat the comdemned as a medical patient is also a symbolic act on the part of the medical professions that they still believe in "do no harm".
Cutting between his execution and the murder of the teens--and having their ghosts appear in the window was very effective. He may be genuinely sorry, but it will never undo what he did.
I just hope he knew the Lord. Hell is not a place you want to go. Satan is the one responsible for all sins. One day when we go to heaven, we will join the Lord's army and we will defeat Satan and his demons once and for all.
Sean Penn is a wonderful actor, very realistic in his playing this role, I had a hard time watching this scene after I saw it the 1st time + I had the movie on DVD for years
It hasn't been long since I first saw Sean Penn in "Mystic River".Initially, I thought how good he was in the said movie.And just tonight, I watched "Dead Man Walking". This proves just how really good he is in his craft.Congratulations!
What’s interesting about the movie to me is the character portrayed by Sean Penn. For as long as he had some hope that he could avoid the death penalty, it didn’t seem like he used to feel any regret at all for what he did. Remorse comes only after he realises that all is lost, however it’s hard to tell if it’s driven by the feeling of guilt or rather a fear of death and wondering what awaits him on the other side. In other words it’s hard to tell if this character even had a conscience as there’s a huge difference between being sorry for hurting other people and being sorry for yourself as you cannot escape the death penalty. In the latter scenario a convict regrets what he did only because it has led to his punishment and not because he had ruined the lives of the two families.
In the end, does it really matter? This issue is not about what kind of person the condemned is but all about what kind of society we want. Life is a gift. A truly unique one where either random chance or God Alrighty can give. We ain't God & we're not rolling a die. We can't "give" life. We can only take it away. Look, I've said this before - I used to support the death penalty & likely still would from a morality point of view if we could be 100% certain the person facing execution is guilty. We've executed not guilty people. Hell, if a criminal happens to be poor & dependent on the tender mercies of state lawyers, we still do. If someone screws up somewhere along the way, we can't fix dead! If life means SOMETHING, we can't take that possible risk.
@@scotcarr3390 Answering your question - it does matter to me as a viewer as far as the movie alone is comcerned. Apart from a death penalty dilema, this movie tells a story of a man who did commit that terrible crime and I found his psychological evolution interesting to watch, hence I added my comment in the first place. Also, what makes this picture even more interesting is the fact that it’s not crystal clear what is the director’s stand on the death penalty judging solely by the movie itself.
Interesting observation. In my class we viewed Penn's character as an object of the systems, although he committed a horrible crime, the corrections system that treated him as subhuman only reinforced the part within him that urged him to create those atrocities. He only opened up when Sister Helen showed love and empathy towards him, and treated him as a real human being. If Sister Helen didn't show the care and love that she did, do you think Ponselat would be as calm and remorseful as he faces his final moments? In my eyes if Sister Helen didn't help him he would be thrashing and screaming and cursing. I love that this film creates arguments both for and against the death penalty, and regardless of your stance on it I think this movie accurately portrays the system of executions.
This movie. While hard to watch, had some of the greatest acting I have ever seen. Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon are perfectly cast, and their chemistry is appropriate and believe able. I feel that this movie is underrated. If you have not watched it, DO IT!!
The Green Mile, in retrospect, subtly resembles Dead Man Walking. Percy Wetmore’s grating proclamation during John Coffey’s walk to the cell, is one nod to the picture. The victims parents’ surnames are Percy and Delacroix, who were the mutually-hating prison guard-inmate duo in The Green Mile. Though more eloquent than John Coffey, Matt elicits just as much sadness with his last words as does Coffey. The one chilling discrepancy is in the punishment: A convicted killer (Matt) gets to sleep for the rest of his life, while a wrongfully-accused man had to bear the pain of electrocution
I'm so glad the nurse remembered to sterilize the area where the needle was placed with an alcohol swab. We wouldn't want the victim to get an infection, now would we ;>D !
The main reason was to bring the vein close to the surface. The cold from the alcohol will do that. But of course, there's a slim chance the victim might get a last minute stay of execution or have their sentence commuted.
+Red summer garden That, and you want to uphold a certain...decorum, I guess you might say. Yes, the person has be condemned to die; but there's a ritualistic nature to executions, and they include treating the prisoner with a modicum of decency. The last meal...the blindfold...etc.
Remember in the actual film they contrasted this scene very closely with the scene of the murderers (the Sean Penn character and his accomplice) killing their victims. When you see how horrible the crime is, it makes the murderer's sterile death seem like a mercy.
When I watched this movie when it first came out, I had to leave the cinema. The emotion was devastating to me. I did go back and finish watching, and I can see why these actors received highest achievement awards. I have never forgotten the impact that this movie made on me.... I subsequently studied forensic pathology.
Emotionally wrenching film making. My heart goes out to the victims and their families and to the murderer's family, too. I deeply admire Sister Helen for her convictions. This is film at its most powerful. Sean Penn has never given a greater performance. Our lives are changed by horrible events and it is hoped that somehow we are given the grace to go on with our lives in the shadow of tragedy and incomprehensible acts of deliberate cruelty.
yeah its a hell of a film. i still think if you kill you should be put down. doesn't matter how much he cried or took responsibility. killers unless in war should be punished as so.@@buttertoast1146
Watching this scene made me wonder what it would be like to be in the audience witnessing an actual execution in person. It seems like it would be an almost surreal experience.
I shed a lot of tears watching this movie. It was rough seeing both sides of the death penalty argument played out in such an emotional way. Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn are excellent actors.
@@RobertJamesChinneryH What I've always wondered was what ever happened to that "older, tougher, friend" who accompanied Poncelet? I think I read that he never got executed.
I imagine this would be a horrible thing to undergo, but it makes it somewhat easier remembering that we are all on death row. Don’t waste the time you have.
You should watch "Murdered by Dead Man Walking" for a look at his victims and what he did to them. It also describes his courtroom antics as he mocked the parents of the slain and the victims still living.
Il.meritait de crever mais pas en douceur trop facile et se moquer des souffrances que les personnes ressentent il n'y a aucun pardon.la torture voilà ce qu'il méritait
With all the warning labels around in our everyday lives (cans, containers, even our foodstuffs), it's hard to understand why it is so hard to make a drug that kills people.
@@maximusw01 it really depends on the state and the only reason that states such as South Carolina Utah Alabama are using different methods are because they’re worried about the lethal injection drugs
I can't imagine that someone who is going to be executed have the concentration to listen to bible words... I am sure everybody was so afraid that they only could think about the pain and how long it will take... This movie is one of the best I ever saw. The actors were doing a perfect job cause they carry all that emotions...
I work in an icu, watch people die at least once a month. People die and mostly unpleasant. Because a monster is killed and is uncomfortable for a few minutes after the horror they caused just don’t bother me too much.
If someone I loved was murdered, I wouldn't wan't them to be executed. Killing him won't end my grief, it would only spread it to the ones who love him.
@@prestongarvey5786 And was, in my opinion, responsible for the capture of El Chapo. I thought for sure he would be having issuses with some people down south but it appears he isnt.
Their victims weren't afforded a painless exit to this life. Dead Man Walking is an excellent movie; very emotional. I walked away feeling heartache for the murderer's mother and family, but still very much pro capital punishment whatever the means used to do it.
Had my nephews wife and 9 month old son son abducted and carjacked while he was in in a drug store buying snacks. The guy is later seen on video forcing her to withdraw money from an atm. He was caught within 12 hours. Her body was found the next day by a farmer walking his dog, she had been raped and beaten to death with a wheel rim, the baby was found in the field alive by a detective the baby was severely sunburned, he spent a week in a burn unit. This case was chronicled on many tv shows most notably Forensic Files that devoted an entire episode to it. The guy got life. With every fibre of my being I would throw the switch, fire the shot trip the trap door, drop the cyanide pellet or push the needle into this demons arm and send him to hell.
I'm so sorry that happened to your relatives. Awful crime. For the others- here is the case background. It happened in Greenville, North Carolina in July, 2001. The victims name was Ginger Hayes and her then 9 month old son Nicholas. The perpetrator is named Andre Edwards. He received a life sentence rather than death sentence as the jury could not unanimously agree on a death sentence (10 voted for death, two for life).
omfg like I just watched this for the first time this morning out of boredom looking for a movie to watch and it is one of the most thought provoking and moving films I have ever seen. The death penalty is a catch 22, it shows clearly how the family of the victims deserve justice but at the same time the family of the murderer on death row are now being put through hell as well. Its a tough one but still the death penalty is necessary.
I felt sympathy for him throughout the whole movie, but then when you see what he did at the end, it's hard for me to have any sympathy for him. Seeing how he and the other guy did what they did to 2 innocent people is just sickening. Maybe God forgave him, but it'd be pretty tough to do that if I was the families of those 2 innocent people. I've never felt more conflicted watching a movie.
Killing bought side is wrong even the judge the people carried out that issu have God to answer all is killig no one give life no one should order others life God give us life.
So if that's true. If death has to be paid with death, than in which view differ we anything from serial killers? Talk all you want, killing is wrong, whoever does it. I hate humanity, fucking hell.
WTF are you talking about, everybody is a killer as long as we agree with such a Middle-age thing as the deathpenalty. I'm sorry my english isn't that good. I hope you can understand my thoughts
There is no other way.... when you take someone's life for your pleasure and feel like you're powerful, you will be convicted and sentenced to death by the method of what that state requires
Despite what is seen in this part of the film, they actually take the inmate to the execution chamber and strap him to the gurney half an hour before the execution.
See, I just watched Casualties of War and Penn was so hammy and over the top, which is why I sought this scene out because I remember him being amazing in this (which he was). But, he's certainly not consistent and probably wouldn't crack my top 20 even with he sporadic amazing performances.
his character in casualties of war was meant to act that way. he was a person who had gone mad from war, and acted irratic and out of control. that is why penn acted in that kind of way. stop judging acting based on the character of the role, and focus more on the actual acting. they are acting...of course. @@tylerskiss
I'm kinda on the fence when it comes to capital punishment. But my morels would not align with being an executioner. As horrific and evil the person may be, I don't see how I have the right to take a life.
Before anyone feels teary eyed for this man, he committed terrible, unspeakable acts to get on death row and did not show any remorse until he knew he was about to die. Hopefully the lord showed him more mercy than he showed his victims, but the punishment was just.
@J CalhounExactly. _Vermin_ . Spending life in prison in a much worse punishment than a quick and easy escape. Trap the fucker in solitary confinement for the rest of his life.
Because people like that nurse are people who believe there better than everyone and are making the world a better place. They think about what a person did to get them there to be executed and it probably makes them squirt in there pants to kill them because of it.
An innocent person was killed. I don't think anyone would be crazy enough to plead his innocence before being executed instead would apologize for the crimes they committed.
@@lepetitchat123 i dont think thats what they meant, the scene was very well done that it made it look so realistic. I get where this person is coming from because i was the samr way when i saw this for the first time my senior year. I cried because the scene was so well done it felt real.
It is not about retribution. It is recompense for what the killer has done to his victim. If you steal something from someone you can pay them back for what you stole. But if you take an irreplaceable part of someone's life, or that life itself, how will you replace that? You can't so your life should be forfeited.
how does the death penalty recompense the victim’s life? The death penalty cannot bring them back to life. calling a spade a spade death penalty is revenge
A wrongfully accused man rides Ol’ Sparky (The Green Mile), while an unrepentant rapist and murderer goes to sleep for eternity (Dead Man Walking). Yikes. Quite an interesting coincidence with Delacroix being the surname of Edouard, the sympathetic Green Mile inmate, and Walter, Matthew’s victim. Both men suffered brutal deaths
@@napoleon9669 Are you kidding me ??? I can see how there are circumstances where someone’s past could play a roll but there are thousands of people with the same story that are productive members of society. They normally get life in prison and the death penalty is reserved for the worst of the worst so I don’t feel a damn bit sorry for them
The guy at the end who got lethal injection for killing a cop during a botched robbery doesn't deserve a death sentence. Only the worst killers deserve that. Killing someone in the commission of a felony is 2nd degree murder anyway isn't it?
did the convicted murderers who get executed who brutally murdered their victims think about not inflicting pain? i think not, if you murdered someone by carefully planning it and carrying it out, you get caught, tried fairly, and convicted you deserve whatever you get, if you want sympathy look it up in the dictionary in between shit and syphillis.
s fine but if it was someone in your family or someone close you may think differently, i don't know for sure but you may. i've lost a friend to murder and it was a brurtal bad murder, her boyfriend beat her to death, they had to do a closed casket because she was beaten to a bloddy pulp, i saw the body at the mourge, i was with her mother during the trial, and planning the funeral, i watched her murderer die for his crime, he planned and carried out this murder by his own choice. i have no sympathy for him and i hope god can forgive him for what he did.
In the book for this movie , the criminal goes to the electric chair. Still even that is too quick and relatively...relatively painless. ( it might hurt, but not for long, a matter of seconds is all) and what pisses me off is, these "tough guy" criminals always whine and cry when it's their turn to pay the price.
Well, its just incase. A stay of execution can be ordered with the needles already inserted. You could make the inmate very sick if you had to remove contaminated needles. Also it would be unsafe for the executioners to work with unsanitary equipment.
Does anyone remember Tookie? The Crypts gangster? it took him 5 or 10 minutes after the ACTUAL PROCESS to die. He was still fully conscious. He looked at the Warden and shook his head. They didn't give him enough sedative to knock him out. Essentially he felt his organs being ripped apart as it were.
Bring back the rope, it's quick, fast, cheap. I am against capital punishment full stop. But some of Americas means of execution are some of the most inhumane. Sorry to say it, but it's true.
with the right rope and a proper drop its its instantaneous, the injection takes longer and the person on the table is in constant fear for the duration. its not a guaranteed quick death at all. Tookie served as a true example to it. :-\
@@alexemmerson58 there has been too many mistakes with hanging. There has been cases where the hangman got it wrong and the victims head was removed from the body when the drop happened. The British hangman Pierrepoint always got it right and all the people he hanged in British prisons the victim died instantly with a clean break to the neck. From putting the victims neck in the noose to the drop it took only 10 seconds and it was all over. There is a movie called 'Pierrepoint' which is worth watching. He also hanged many Nazi war criminals at the end of WW2 and also did the last hanging of a woman Ruth Ellis here in the UK before the death penalty was abolished. The movie stars Timothy Spall as the hangman Pierrepoint.
If someone tease some other as her tolerance limits gone, you got to think about how old he is, if he is in his full senses, and then think about what had done his acting as teasing. If it is that he like to try your limits, you can tell him that he trying your tolerance. If that dont effect you ask him directly if he can tell you what his problem is. If he seem to only like your company, you can got a new friend. If he only look for trouble, you can in a nice way say that you are not intresting.
Really no one wins with the death penalty. The victim's family and the killers family both lose someone they love. They lose on both sides. Please no replies of negativity. I know that killing is wrong but at the same time no one really wins. I can't say that enough. They kill the killer to prove a point but at the same time the killers family losses a loved one too. They say to forgive those who do wrong.
Murder is not about winning or losing as you put it. Not sure why you are so concerned with family members of the murderer - it does not matter what they feel. Also, if you have a beautiful loving 7 year old daughter who was rapped in a smelly cold barn, for 2 days in 1997, then you could tell the judge and the state you are against the death penalty and guess what happens-they will not give the death penalty and let it be so. But if you are the father of a beautiful, loving and smart little girl that was strangled, I promise you that father - you know what, “ no negative replies” - who the hell are you to tell people what they can reply or how.
@@seanjacobs3552 But they do feels something. Anger, disappointment, scared to see their loved one a criminal and on death row, their fears come to the surface. Haley's not entirely wrong considering that it causes loss on both sides in ways you need to look into carefully. The killer's family will express some emotions I've explained, either feel like failures for not keeping their loved one from a path they wanted him/her to avoid, anger or disappointment and shame, or don't care about him/her at all. Either way, it's a tragedy for both families.
The Doctor Lady is telling Poncelet when she puts the needle in his arms through an IV that. She needs to hold him down so he doesn't move. It is the body language that she is telling him that it will be okay. And that if he has a meltdown then he could ask her for ice, or numbing cream. But the Alcohol really hurts on your arms.
It's nice that they rub the area where the needle goes in with alcohol, you don't want the person being executed to get an infection.
Nice coppied comment
Haha
It would be against medical practice not to do so. Since the preparation is done by medical professionals, but not the actual administering of the poison, the practice to treat the comdemned as a medical patient is also a symbolic act on the part of the medical professions that they still believe in "do no harm".
@@marknash5993 Robin Williams actually.
@Comerade Dan that would really be cruel to go as far as having the needle in your arm before staying the execution
He was really good in the scene, shaking and all, very convincing
That's acting for you...
@@WoodysOpinion101 some people are actually professional at it in movies
The best actor
I totally agree with this!
Cutting between his execution and the murder of the teens--and having their ghosts appear in the window was very effective. He may be genuinely sorry, but it will never undo what he did.
I just hope he knew the Lord. Hell is not a place you want to go. Satan is the one responsible for all sins. One day when we go to heaven, we will join the Lord's army and we will defeat Satan and his demons once and for all.
No,the only ones responsible for our bad deeds are we . Satan is just imaginary scapegoat created by people to take the responsibilty off them.
@@durmaethor4551 you are wrong my friend. Read the Holy Bible. But you have the right to freedom of religion. We all are
@@stephanwatkins please shut up
Neither does killing him bring back his victims
Who gives three straws if they suffer pain, their victims suffered as well
Great film, it doesn't' tell you what to think, it just lays it out and we all choose how we decide to feel about it.
I was 14 when i first saw this.
i'm 28 now.
This scene always stays with me.
Alex Emmerson you’re 33 now. Is it always? ;)
Ur 34 now
Sean Penn is a wonderful actor, very realistic in his playing this role, I had a hard time watching this scene after I saw it the 1st time + I had the movie on DVD for years
I am 14 now oh god make remember this when I get old
Imagine how you'd feel if you saw that actual crime committed that led to this entirely just execution?
Sean Penn : a great actor ! Congratulations
Wonderful acting by all the actors. Great film.
It hasn't been long since I first saw Sean Penn in "Mystic River".Initially, I thought how good he was in the said movie.And just tonight, I watched "Dead Man Walking". This proves just how really good he is in his craft.Congratulations!
What’s interesting about the movie to me is the character portrayed by Sean Penn. For as long as he had some hope that he could avoid the death penalty, it didn’t seem like he used to feel any regret at all for what he did. Remorse comes only after he realises that all is lost, however it’s hard to tell if it’s driven by the feeling of guilt or rather a fear of death and wondering what awaits him on the other side. In other words it’s hard to tell if this character even had a conscience as there’s a huge difference between being sorry for hurting other people and being sorry for yourself as you cannot escape the death penalty. In the latter scenario a convict regrets what he did only because it has led to his punishment and not because he had ruined the lives of the two families.
I wrote the exact same thing in my essay. We had an essay due for today based on that movie
In the end, does it really matter? This issue is not about what kind of person the condemned is but all about what kind of society we want.
Life is a gift. A truly unique one where either random chance or God Alrighty can give. We ain't God & we're not rolling a die. We can't "give" life. We can only take it away.
Look, I've said this before - I used to support the death penalty & likely still would from a morality point of view if we could be 100% certain the person facing execution is guilty. We've executed not guilty people. Hell, if a criminal happens to be poor & dependent on the tender mercies of state lawyers, we still do. If someone screws up somewhere along the way, we can't fix dead!
If life means SOMETHING, we can't take that possible risk.
@@scotcarr3390 Answering your question - it does matter to me as a viewer as far as the movie alone is comcerned. Apart from a death penalty dilema, this movie tells a story of a man who did commit that terrible crime and I found his psychological evolution interesting to watch, hence I added my comment in the first place. Also, what makes this picture even more interesting is the fact that it’s not crystal clear what is the director’s stand on the death penalty judging solely by the movie itself.
Because when the government kills isn't a murderer, is it?
Interesting observation. In my class we viewed Penn's character as an object of the systems, although he committed a horrible crime, the corrections system that treated him as subhuman only reinforced the part within him that urged him to create those atrocities. He only opened up when Sister Helen showed love and empathy towards him, and treated him as a real human being. If Sister Helen didn't show the care and love that she did, do you think Ponselat would be as calm and remorseful as he faces his final moments? In my eyes if Sister Helen didn't help him he would be thrashing and screaming and cursing. I love that this film creates arguments both for and against the death penalty, and regardless of your stance on it I think this movie accurately portrays the system of executions.
This movie. While hard to watch, had some of the greatest acting I have ever seen. Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon are perfectly cast, and their chemistry is appropriate and believe able. I feel that this movie is underrated. If you have not watched it, DO IT!!
Part of it shows a documentary
Great movie
I totally agree with this!
The Green Mile, in retrospect, subtly resembles Dead Man Walking. Percy Wetmore’s grating proclamation during John Coffey’s walk to the cell, is one nod to the picture. The victims parents’ surnames are Percy and Delacroix, who were the mutually-hating prison guard-inmate duo in The Green Mile. Though more eloquent than John Coffey, Matt elicits just as much sadness with his last words as does Coffey. The one chilling discrepancy is in the punishment: A convicted killer (Matt) gets to sleep for the rest of his life, while a wrongfully-accused man had to bear the pain of electrocution
How much witnessing faith hathaways' murser and rape would have effected you. Roert willie was a pos. m the world is a better place without him.
Powerful film which makes us see both sides and realise the power of love.
If the initial infusion is propofanol, then you’re immediately asleep. Follow the propofanol with fentanyl and there will be no pain.
I agree. But no, people want a show, and a show is what they get.
Sean Penn played the hell outta this role. He’s a remarkable actor❤❤❤❤❤
When the officer says "Dead man walking!" . . . chills.
A perfect title drop.
I'm so glad the nurse remembered to sterilize the area where the needle was placed with an alcohol swab. We wouldn't want the victim to get an infection, now would we ;>D !
The main reason was to bring the vein close to the surface. The cold from the alcohol will do that. But of course, there's a slim chance the victim might get a last minute stay of execution or have their sentence commuted.
+Red summer garden cold doesn't cause veins to rise, it causes them to contract
+Red summer garden That, and you want to uphold a certain...decorum, I guess you might say. Yes, the person has be condemned to die; but there's a ritualistic nature to executions, and they include treating the prisoner with a modicum of decency. The last meal...the blindfold...etc.
+Pete Mangum He was not a victim he is a murderer who got what he deserved.
OK, Mr. Death Penalty Advocate. I was initially making a joke and you turn it into a Bill O'Reilly rally. Now go back and finish your raw meat salad.
Remember in the actual film they contrasted this scene very closely with the scene of the murderers (the Sean Penn character and his accomplice) killing their victims. When you see how horrible the crime is, it makes the murderer's sterile death seem like a mercy.
What a great movie. Controversial until today. Thanks to the two great actors.
Fantastic movie
Wish the victims had such humanity and compassion. Some crimes do require the ultimate in punishment.
great movie and two amazing actors (Sean and Susan)
When I watched this movie when it first came out, I had to leave the cinema. The emotion was devastating to me. I did go back and finish watching, and I can see why these actors received highest achievement awards. I have never forgotten the impact that this movie made on me.... I subsequently studied forensic pathology.
Emotionally wrenching film making. My heart goes out to the victims and their families and to the murderer's family, too. I deeply admire Sister Helen for her convictions. This is film at its most powerful. Sean Penn has never given a greater performance. Our lives are changed by horrible events and it is hoped that somehow we are given the grace to go on with our lives in the shadow of tragedy and incomprehensible acts of deliberate cruelty.
It's a movie
@@buttertoast1146 Based on true events dummy.
@Toast In every movie there is a piece of reality.
yeah its a hell of a film. i still think if you kill you should be put down. doesn't matter how much he cried or took responsibility. killers unless in war should be punished as so.@@buttertoast1146
Watching this scene made me wonder what it would be like to be in the audience witnessing an actual execution in person. It seems like it would be an almost surreal experience.
It's Evil What he did
But When you looking that What to think to take a life and people watching gosh
I couldn't watch a real one, regardless. This scene is with me ever since I saw the movie the first time
@@michaeldiehl2458 : I don’t think I could either.
I witnessed executions by lethal injection.
They were done very smoothly and without any drama. I still remember them many years later.
I would cry if I saw one even if they did deserve it I’m a softy
his acting in this scene is so chilling
I shed a lot of tears watching this movie. It was rough seeing both sides of the death penalty argument played out in such an emotional way. Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn are excellent actors.
You should read the real story about poncelet. What you saw is Hollywood and he was one nasty character that deserve what he got
@@RobertJamesChinneryH What I've always wondered was what ever happened to that "older, tougher, friend" who accompanied Poncelet? I think I read that he never got executed.
Ocean of emotion blended with excellent showcase of Sean and Susan’s brilliance !
How did Sean Penn NOT win Best Actor for this movie?
I imagine this would be a horrible thing to undergo, but it makes it somewhat easier remembering that we are all on death row. Don’t waste the time you have.
blow me
My exact thoughts ; some of us arw confined and others are free to roam , but we're all on death row.
You should watch "Murdered by Dead Man Walking" for a look at his victims and what he did to them. It also describes his courtroom antics as he mocked the parents of the slain and the victims still living.
Il.meritait de crever mais pas en douceur trop facile et se moquer des souffrances que les personnes ressentent il n'y a aucun pardon.la torture voilà ce qu'il méritait
With all the warning labels around in our everyday lives (cans, containers, even our foodstuffs), it's hard to understand why it is so hard to make a drug that kills people.
It's not hard. It's just the society that taboos it. I wish I could get some cyanide or nembutal when the time comes
What a painless way to die, compared to what his victims went through. Unfair.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Some death row prisoners pick their method of execution from what I heard
@@maximusw01 it really depends on the state and the only reason that states such as South Carolina Utah Alabama are using different methods are because they’re worried about the lethal injection drugs
I can't imagine that someone who is going to be executed have the concentration to listen to bible words...
I am sure everybody was so afraid that they only could think about the pain and how long it will take...
This movie is one of the best I ever saw.
The actors were doing a perfect job cause they carry all that emotions...
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I work in an icu, watch people die at least once a month. People die and mostly unpleasant. Because a monster is killed and is uncomfortable for a few minutes after the horror they caused just don’t bother me too much.
If someone I loved was murdered, I wouldn't wan't them to be executed. Killing him won't end my grief, it would only spread it to the ones who love him.
Matthew Culbert That's some smarty thinking
The Bible is our standard and it states if a man sheds another man's blood then by men his blood shall be shed.
@@marymcmaster9189
Throw that part of Bible in the toilet and rinse the brain.
Not my problem
He fucked around and found out
@@robb00 so you pick and choose parts of the Bible.
dudes, damn i cried , dont care i think i'm heartless but man, Tears are coming.
In her book, both executions she witnessed were by electric chair.
Sad thing
@@robertbreschard3493 Not really, considering the fact that in 1/120th of a second, there's no sensation whatsoever....
This movie is incredible. Penn is a great actor.
I also wanna watch it. Please tell me the name of the movie.
@@ډیورنډنهمنو It is called Dead Man Walking
@@Boxingbear
I couldn't find it in utube. Can u plz send its link plz.
@@ډیورنډنهمنو
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Yes he is!
We worry more about the discomfort of the guilty than we do the pain of the victims.
Some people are backwards. When I watch this movie I'm glad they lit him up. He deserved worse. The rape scene is what stayed with me.
No we don't.
@@keithferris9574 you right. They do.
Sean Penn is without a doubt the very best actor of this generation
One of
Cari D Yes the great humanitarian who Endorsed HUGO CHAVEZ
@@prestongarvey5786 And was, in my opinion, responsible for the capture of El Chapo. I thought for sure he would be having issuses with some people down south but it appears he isnt.
that’s a little strident. i love jeff spicoli too tho.
It is robert patrick actually
This is one of the most moving thing I have ever seen. Everyone should see it
Exactly one of the best movies
Tim Robbins did an incredible stuffs
Hard to know what to think as of course to be killed😮😢 as what they did is awful
It's fascinating that the real Dead Man Walking died in the electric chair lol
Brilliant movie. It advocated the death penalty for me when I first saw it. Because he confessed at the end.
Sean Penn is a phenomenal actor.
I put myself in his situation
I couldn't bear to go like that
His victims couldn't bear to go like that either. Thank you.
Phenomenal acting. Just incredible . . .
Their victims weren't afforded a painless exit to this life. Dead Man Walking is an excellent movie; very emotional. I walked away feeling heartache for the murderer's mother and family, but still very much pro capital punishment whatever the means used to do it.
Had my nephews wife and 9 month old son son abducted and carjacked while he was in in a drug store buying snacks. The guy is later seen on video forcing her to withdraw money from an atm. He was caught within 12 hours. Her body was found the next day by a farmer walking his dog, she had been raped and beaten to death with a wheel rim, the baby was found in the field alive by a detective the baby was severely sunburned, he spent a week in a burn unit. This case was chronicled on many tv shows most notably Forensic Files that devoted an entire episode to it. The guy got life. With every fibre of my being I would throw the switch, fire the shot trip the trap door, drop the cyanide pellet or push the needle into this demons arm and send him to hell.
I'm so sorry that happened to your relatives. Awful crime.
For the others- here is the case background. It happened in Greenville, North Carolina in July, 2001. The victims name was Ginger Hayes and her then 9 month old son Nicholas.
The perpetrator is named Andre Edwards. He received a life sentence rather than death sentence as the jury could not unanimously agree on a death sentence (10 voted for death, two for life).
I am so sorry for your heartache and I would do the same in a heartbeat!!!
I saw this on a crime show.. I am so very sorry.
omfg like I just watched this for the first time this morning out of boredom looking for a movie to watch and it is one of the most thought provoking and moving films I have ever seen. The death penalty is a catch 22, it shows clearly how the family of the victims deserve justice but at the same time the family of the murderer on death row are now being put through hell as well. Its a tough one but still the death penalty is necessary.
manofknowledge1000
salome corona flores thats my name, dont wear it out
SO, YOU BELIEVE IN CAPITOL PUNISHMENT...
dave lastman yes ofcourse. It is 100% necessary. It has to be
thats bollocks!!! we don't have it in England and your prison are fuller than ours
When the time is for you to step in the hells fire, you ask for forgiving and gods mercy. Its maybe too late.
I felt sympathy for him throughout the whole movie, but then when you see what he did at the end, it's hard for me to have any sympathy for him. Seeing how he and the other guy did what they did to 2 innocent people is just sickening. Maybe God forgave him, but it'd be pretty tough to do that if I was the families of those 2 innocent people. I've never felt more conflicted watching a movie.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
The killer is just getting what he or she gave and that's death.
Living by the sword they are dying by it.
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Killing bought side is wrong even the judge the people carried out that issu have God to answer all is killig no one give life no one should order others life God give us life.
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The death penalty isnt there to show that its wrong to kill, its there as a punishment, as revenge, as justice.
It's also responsible for killing people who were wrongfully convicted. Just saying.
Colin MacKinnon Then fix that system
So if that's true. If death has to be paid with death, than in which view differ we anything from serial killers?
Talk all you want, killing is wrong, whoever does it. I hate humanity, fucking hell.
Matt De Maeyer I didn't know serial Killer victims were killers themselves. Your logic is flawed
WTF are you talking about, everybody is a killer as long as we agree with such a Middle-age thing as the deathpenalty. I'm sorry my english isn't that good. I hope you can understand my thoughts
Killing killers to prove killing is wrong. There has to be something better than this.
There is no other way.... when you take someone's life for your pleasure and feel like you're powerful, you will be convicted and sentenced to death by the method of what that state requires
Despite what is seen in this part of the film, they actually take the inmate to the execution chamber and strap him to the gurney half an hour before the execution.
prisoner:can helen touch me?
warden: yes she may
Deputy: Dead man walking!
Penn is one of the finest Actors or his generation- great movie
Great actor, shit human being
See, I just watched Casualties of War and Penn was so hammy and over the top, which is why I sought this scene out because I remember him being amazing in this (which he was). But, he's certainly not consistent and probably wouldn't crack my top 20 even with he sporadic amazing performances.
I agree. This certainly is 1 very good movie.
his character in casualties of war was meant to act that way. he was a person who had gone mad from war, and acted irratic and out of control. that is why penn acted in that kind of way.
stop judging acting based on the character of the role, and focus more on the actual acting. they are acting...of course. @@tylerskiss
Sean Penn seemed like he was actually going into shock. That's a little disturbing to watch.
He is a great actor but it disturbed me to
This was actually based on Robert Lee Willie. Sean Penn looked so much like him in the movie.
The quiet of the room as the clock ticks, the heavy labored breathing knowing what's about to come, scary shit.
I could never have this job no matter how much money it pays.
300 dollars an execution is legal pay.
Me neither.
I'm kinda on the fence when it comes to capital punishment.
But my morels would not align with being an executioner.
As horrific and evil the person may be,
I don't see how I have the right to take a life.
Oh I'd love to do that job, wouldnt have to pay me a penny, a slice of pizza that'd be enough lol
@@luc7d wow it sounds like the best job ever
Before anyone feels teary eyed for this man, he committed terrible, unspeakable acts to get on death row and did not show any remorse until he knew he was about to die. Hopefully the lord showed him more mercy than he showed his victims, but the punishment was just.
That's the point. It was to show how barbaric it all is. Killing is killing. On both sides. An eye for an eye doesn't work.
Harvester
It has it’s ups and downs.
@J Calhoun Sacrificing time, money and in the end, other people will keep on doing it.
@J CalhounExactly. _Vermin_ . Spending life in prison in a much worse punishment than a quick and easy escape. Trap the fucker in solitary confinement for the rest of his life.
@@HarvesterYT
Oh yes it does.
He got off easy.
wow how could anyone be the nurse who puts in the needle? that shit would keep me up at night
Because people like that nurse are people who believe there better than everyone and are making the world a better place. They think about what a person did to get them there to be executed and it probably makes them squirt in there pants to kill them because of it.
BUNCHofxs squirt in there pants? wow lol sounds like a crazy bitch that would do that
They are prob trained to detach from it and be cold
Their, poeple.
Whats so hard about "their"?
Staff Sergeant Dunn
the i is to far away from the e on my keyboard... lol
An innocent person was killed. I don't think anyone would be crazy enough to plead his innocence before being executed instead would apologize for the crimes they committed.
It is worth it if they feel pain because they didn’t care what pain they caused their victims. It’s justice.
I first saw that scene in college, and it was just so upsetting that I was on the verge of tears
Why cry for a convicted criminal who showed no remorse until the very last minute?
@@lepetitchat123 i dont think thats what they meant, the scene was very well done that it made it look so realistic. I get where this person is coming from because i was the samr way when i saw this for the first time my senior year. I cried because the scene was so well done it felt real.
It is not about retribution. It is recompense for what the killer has done to his victim. If you steal something from someone you can pay them back for what you stole. But if you take an irreplaceable part of someone's life, or that life itself, how will you replace that? You can't so your life should be forfeited.
But it should be painless and clean
If the death sentence must exist then it should be as painless and quick as possible
how does the death penalty recompense the victim’s life? The death penalty cannot bring them back to life. calling a spade a spade death penalty is revenge
Revenge, that's all
A wrongfully accused man rides Ol’ Sparky (The Green Mile), while an unrepentant rapist and murderer goes to sleep for eternity (Dead Man Walking). Yikes. Quite an interesting coincidence with Delacroix being the surname of Edouard, the sympathetic Green Mile inmate, and Walter, Matthew’s victim. Both men suffered brutal deaths
The boy’s father is thinking, “Wrong kid died!”
He was given mercy the way he died. However, he showed no mercy for his victims.
Sean Penn, Johnny Depp. Those actors are phenomenal
Not Depp
If the killer suffer pain, so be it. Their victims also suffer.
Don’t expect me to feel sorry for them, they didn’t care if the person they killed felt pain or was scared. They should feel those things.
I agree.
Exactly
Things aren't that simple. People aren't born bad. They become bad due to the society around them. We should re-educate criminals, not execute them
@@napoleon9669
Are you kidding me ??? I can see how there are circumstances where someone’s past could play a roll but there are thousands of people with the same story that are productive members of society. They normally get life in prison and the death penalty is reserved for the worst of the worst so I don’t feel a damn bit sorry for them
@@jxfwliz5ldnheeg
???? I’m confused
he truly was sorry for the evil he did.sad
rob morgan they're always sorry when it's their life to pay.
Gabby L wtf so people cannot be regretful or forgiven....lol
The guy at the end who got lethal injection for killing a cop during a botched robbery doesn't deserve a death sentence. Only the worst killers deserve that. Killing someone in the commission of a felony is 2nd degree murder anyway isn't it?
This sadistic murderer died in the electric chair...as a Catholic I resent a Nun making him out to be a victim...
The only people I felt sorry for where the victims and their families.
I felt sorry for the people carrying out the sentence.
I must admit that when i first saw this movie I thought it was actually sending out a pro-death penalty message ..
Monsters become humans only after they face death. Good education system.
Relatively painless and a lot better than the fate of some young guys who only served their country.
did the convicted murderers who get executed who brutally murdered their victims think about not inflicting pain? i think not, if you murdered someone by carefully planning it and carrying it out, you get caught, tried fairly, and convicted you deserve whatever you get, if you want sympathy look it up in the dictionary in between shit and syphillis.
WAABIJIIYAA MAIINGAN i disagree
s fine but if it was someone in your family or someone close you may think differently, i don't know for sure but you may. i've lost a friend to murder and it was a brurtal bad murder, her boyfriend beat her to death, they had to do a closed casket because she was beaten to a bloddy pulp, i saw the body at the mourge, i was with her mother during the trial, and planning the funeral, i watched her murderer die for his crime, he planned and carried out this murder by his own choice. i have no sympathy for him and i hope god can forgive him for what he did.
@@jeremykiplagat4953 You are a moron then. PERIOD!
Kunta Kinte bruh it’s so annoying when y’all say period like that word been out for a very long time y’all are making like its new 🙄😂😔🤦🏾♀️
Kunta Kinte bitch are you mad 😂🙄
What an expression, mind blowing.
In the book for this movie , the criminal goes to the electric chair. Still even that is too quick and relatively...relatively painless. ( it might hurt, but not for long, a matter of seconds is all)
and what pisses me off is, these "tough guy" criminals always whine and cry when it's their turn to pay the price.
to be honest, the most painless way to die is a bullet to the head. an instant, and you're gone.
Worried about being painful? Did they worry about the person they killed? Worry about the pain it caused them? The prisoner earned what they get.
His shuddering is what unsettles me the most.
Well, its just incase. A stay of execution can be ordered with the needles already inserted. You could make the inmate very sick if you had to remove contaminated needles. Also it would be unsafe for the executioners to work with unsanitary equipment.
SEAN SHOULD HAVE A OSCAR FOR THIS MOVIE
Yes and Tim Robbins as great director!!!
Jack Black was great in this dramatic role in this film. He should do more.
This is what happens
He truly was.
Both actors were brilliant in this.
GM seat belts out of a 1972 GM car around his legs .
Does anyone remember Tookie? The Crypts gangster?
it took him 5 or 10 minutes after the ACTUAL PROCESS to die.
He was still fully conscious.
He looked at the Warden and shook his head.
They didn't give him enough sedative to knock him out.
Essentially he felt his organs being ripped apart as it were.
Bring back the rope, it's quick, fast, cheap. I am against capital punishment full stop. But some of Americas means of execution are some of the most inhumane.
Sorry to say it, but it's true.
Alex Emmerson
Hanging was deemed inhumane.
with the right rope and a proper drop its its instantaneous, the injection takes longer and the person on the table is in constant fear for the duration. its not a guaranteed quick death at all. Tookie served as a true example to it. :-\
@@alexemmerson58 there has been too many mistakes with hanging. There has been cases where the hangman got it wrong and the victims head was removed from the body when the drop happened. The British hangman Pierrepoint always got it right and all the people he hanged in British prisons the victim died instantly with a clean break to the neck.
From putting the victims neck in the noose to the drop it took only 10 seconds and it was all over. There is a movie called 'Pierrepoint' which is worth watching. He also hanged many Nazi war criminals at the end of WW2 and also did the last hanging of a woman Ruth Ellis here in the UK before the death penalty was abolished. The movie stars Timothy Spall as the hangman Pierrepoint.
Acting at its finest!
Sean Penn deserved an Oscar for this performance... but Susan Sarandon got it...👍🏽
If someone tease some other as her tolerance limits gone, you got to think about how old he is, if he is in his full senses, and then think about what had done his acting as teasing. If it is that he like to try your limits, you can tell him that he trying your tolerance. If that dont effect you ask him directly if he can tell you what his problem is. If he seem to only like your company, you can got a new friend. If he only look for trouble, you can in a nice way say that you are not intresting.
I didn’t know the gurney could do that, for a little bit it almost looked like he was being crucified
Life isnt always unfair.
Really no one wins with the death penalty. The victim's family and the killers family both lose someone they love. They lose on both sides. Please no replies of negativity. I know that killing is wrong but at the same time no one really wins. I can't say that enough. They kill the killer to prove a point but at the same time the killers family losses a loved one too. They say to forgive those who do wrong.
@junkman19571 Yeah if that makes you even better...no it makes you even worse.
Murder is not about winning or losing as you put it. Not sure why you are so concerned with family members of the murderer - it does not matter what they feel.
Also, if you have a beautiful loving 7 year old daughter who was rapped in a smelly cold barn, for 2 days in 1997, then you could tell the judge and the state you are against the death penalty and guess what happens-they will not give the death penalty and let it be so. But if you are the father of a beautiful, loving and smart little girl that was strangled, I promise you that father - you know what, “ no negative replies” - who the hell are you to tell people what they can reply or how.
@junkman19571 Then you're no better than the killer himself. You can't judge based on what family the killer is from.
@@seanjacobs3552 But they do feels something. Anger, disappointment, scared to see their loved one a criminal and on death row, their fears come to the surface. Haley's not entirely wrong considering that it causes loss on both sides in ways you need to look into carefully. The killer's family will express some emotions I've explained, either feel like failures for not keeping their loved one from a path they wanted him/her to avoid, anger or disappointment and shame, or don't care about him/her at all. Either way, it's a tragedy for both families.
We all are dead men walking, philosophically speaking. It's just a matter of time.
Important we remember that.
However, during this time we have on this planet, we must prepare for where we'll end up in the AFTERLIFE.
The alcohol swab is a nice touch, after all you wouldn't want an infection
George Carlin
The Doctor Lady is telling Poncelet when she puts the needle in his arms through an IV that. She needs to hold him down so he doesn't move. It is the body language that she is telling him that it will be okay. And that if he has a meltdown then he could ask her for ice, or numbing cream. But the Alcohol really hurts on your arms.