Percy Wetmore

"I think of it as a bucket of piss to drown rats in! That's all! Anybody doesn't like it can kiss my ass!"

- Percy Wetmore. "Well, I might just stick around for good, might make me a career of this... boss."

- Percy Wetmore. "We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking, here..."

- Percy's last words. Percy Wetmore is the secondary antagonist in the novel The Green Mile by Stephen King and its movie version.

He is portrayed by Doug Hutchison.

Biography
Percy is a sadistic prison guard who enjoys aggravating the prisoners, particularly Eduard "Del" Delacroix. Although the other guards share a dislike of him, they must be nice to him because he is the governor's nephew. When he is offered a job as a secretary at Brier Ridge Mental Hospital, Paul Edgecomb, the main character, thinks that they are finally rid of Percy. However, Percy refuses to leave unless he is allowed to supervise an execution, so Paul reluctantly allows him to run Del's. Percy sabotages the execution by deliberately not soaking the sponge before putting it on Del's head while Del is in the electric chair. Del suffers an agonizing death by literally frying in the chair (John Coffey channels the pain to himself, however).

When Paul and the other guards plan to take John Coffey, the other main character who heals people by sucking diseases out of them and regurgitating them, to the warden's cancerous wife, they put Percy in a straitjacket, tape his mouth shut and lock him in a padded cell. After returning, John regurgitates the disease he takes from the warden's wife into Percy. This causes him to go mad and shoot William Wharton to death before going into a permanent catatonic state. He is then committed to Brier Ridge Mental Hospital. In the book, it is mentioned that he later died.