ATLANTA -- Hollywood actor Doug Hutchison will discuss his book The Green Mile Journal and attend a screening of The Green Mile Monday, October 16 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in Lupton Auditorium on the Oglethorpe University campus. This event precedes the Dialogue on the Death Penalty conference featuring Sister Helen Prejean November 16 through 17 at Oglethorpe.

Doug Hutchison played Percy Wetmore in the 1999 Oscar-nominated film The Green Mile. Hutchison will read from The Green Mile Journal, which he wrote during the filming of the movie. An audience question and answer session will be held at the end of the reading.

The Green Mile is set on death row in a Southern prison in 1935 and is the remarkable story of an inmate with a miraculous gift and his impact on the men who guarded him. The movie will be screened inside Lupton Auditorium at 8:00 p.m. on October 16. These two events are free and open to the public. Please visit www.oglethorpe.edu (keyword: dialogue) for more information.