"He's cookin' now,  Bill Wharton screams from his cell during the execution of another prisoner. Wild Bill Wharton possessed traits of a truly wild, undomesticated, unmoral, skittish man. The unstable inmate of the Green Mile death row, by the name of Bill Wharton has always existed as an unpredictable man; the guards had to remain on their toes to deal with whatever he threw at them, literally. Bill Wharton, better known as Wild Bill to the guards, was routinely perceived to the audience as a child of Satan himself. Aroused by the execution of other inmates, almost celebrating their death, showed a mentally unstable man. Employed as a farm hand for the two murdered girls' father, showed Bill previously had the will to do quality labored work. Although it later unfolded to not be for the money, but to clinch the trust of the two girls and their father, that would ultimately vanish away. After leaving the job as a farmhand unexpectedly, Bill robbed a bank and took the life of three innocent people including a pregnant woman. God does not create human on this planet to take the life of others, which leads back to Bill truly being a child of Satan, rather than Christ. Although he had committed these horrible crimes, law enforcement never suspected Bill for the murders of the two farm sisters. A mental illness does not justify all the wrongdoing that Bill carried out while still a free man, nor while on death row. Bill Wharton states in the book The Green Mile that he had a tattoo that he named "Billy the Kid ; Bill mentioned himself in the movie in the same way. This tattoo symbolizes his childhood and the belief that a male figure stole his childhood from him, it explains mentally why he made the actions against the little girls but does not justify them socially. Bill suffered from jealousy of their carefree living and happiness; he believed other children needed to feel the pain he endured. Urinating on the guards made Wild Bil