“ ike the rest of mankind…” No one is excluded from this indictment. Not only does he describe the guilt of sin, but he also describes how sin works and the consequences of sin.: 1And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience- 3among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. Paul is rather specific in his description. Listen again: 1And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2in which you once walked… Because of your sins, your bad deeds, your wicked thoughts, and your immoral behavior the verdict is in, the sentence has been handed down, and Paul says you are a “dead man walking!” That’s the kind of imagery the Apostle Paul gives us in the reading from Ephesians.
We had the electric chair -'Old Sparky,’ we called it.” The movie shows several individuals who had to journey down that green mile all the while knowing they were a dead man walking. In the movie, Tom Hank’s character tells us what death row was like in Louisiana during the Great Depression in 1935: “Usually, death row was called ‘the last mile’ we called ours ‘the Green Mile’ the floor was the color of faded limes. Though he is still alive at the moment, he is a walking dead man. It’s a phrase that’s traditionally used to announce a condemned prisoner who is walking to the place of his execution. “ Dead man Dead man walking!” That’s what the guard says as he escorts convicted prisoner John Coffey from the prison truck to his death row prison cell in the movie The Green Mile.