Should Duchairn Be Executed After The War?

n7axw wrote:

PeterZ wrote:I am not advocating a get out of jail free card. I advocate punishment tailored to make him suffer but still ameliorate an awful situation. Duchairn's faith is rejuvenated, Don. I realize the good guys likely don't know this, yet. Still, everything about serving in the G4, the power and authority, is a constant reminder of how he failed God. His current activities is his penance. His planning to gut Clyntahn is his penance. Both activities eat away at his soul, yet he does them none the less. Killing him or taking him away from the constant reminders of his failure is a blessing for him.

Justice in Duchairn's place means utilizing him in a position where he can make amends and keep the loyalists from aggravating the post CoGA situation worse than it needs to be. Killing him is a waste. He likely broke no laws he was under the jurisdiction of, but justice demands restitution. Let Duchairn pay his restitution with the remainder of his life in service of those he and his partners misled.

I think there should be a jail term. Perhaps not a lengthy one, but a jail term. Then your idea could be implemented.

Don

How about running the sentences concurrently?

PeterZ wrote:
How about running the sentences concurrently?

Maybe that works as long as he is not left in a leadership role.

Don

n7axw wrote:

PeterZ wrote:
How about running the sentences concurrently?

Maybe that works as long as he is not left in a leadership role.

Don

That might well work. Have him grease the wheels bureaucracy to assist someone like Archbishop Cahnyr.

PeterZ wrote:

n7axw wrote:Maybe that works as long as he is not left in a leadership role.

Don

That might well work. Have him grease the wheels bureaucracy to assist someone like Archbishop Cahnyr.

The best use of Duchairn would to have him travel across Safehold (with a very heavy guard attachment!) and give sermons on how the Go4 was wrong, the entire Jihad was wrong, and that the CoC with its kinder, gentler approach and emphasis on one's personal faith and relationship with God has it right.

Of course he'd be assassinated rather quickly no matter how well the EoC tried to protect him.

Since that's the case, send him to a monastery, limit his good deeds to the nearby townspeople, and strip him of all authority. He'd probably enjoy spending the rest of his life trying to make amends and helping others.

As efficient as he might be in leading the CoGA's bureaucracy, the Go4 has to be dismantled, and three of them need to be executed like common criminals. Beheading is actually too good for them, since that's how the nobility are executed, so hang them! Clyntahn has a date with Dialydd Mab, but Trynair and Magwair should certainly swing from a rope.

The allies don't know that Duchairn has had a resurgence of faith, although Merlin & co. may know of his good works in Zion, but the inner circle wants to break the CoGA entirely. The work Duchairn has done to keep the Jihad rolling, the dirt Aivah probably has on him before he changed his ways, plus his vote to destroy Charis in OAR are enough to merit his execution.

It will be interesting to see what sort of punishment the EoC gives him...

McGuiness wrote:
The best use of Duchairn would to have him travel across Safehold (with a very heavy guard attachment!) and give sermons on how the Go4 was wrong, the entire Jihad was wrong, and that the CoC with its kinder, gentler approach and emphasis on one's personal faith and relationship with God has it right.

Of course he'd be assassinated rather quickly no matter how well the EoC tried to protect him.

Since that's the case, send him to a monastery, limit his good deeds to the nearby townspeople, and strip him of all authority. He'd probably enjoy spending the rest of his life trying to make amends and helping others.

As efficient as he might be in leading the CoGA's bureaucracy, the Go4 has to be dismantled, and three of them need to be executed like common criminals. Beheading is actually too good for them, since that's how the nobility are executed, so hang them! Clyntahn has a date with Dialydd Mab, but Trynair and Magwair should certainly swing from a rope.

The allies don't know that Duchairn has had a resurgence of faith, although Merlin & co. may know of his good works in Zion, but the inner circle wants to break the CoGA entirely. The work Duchairn has done to keep the Jihad rolling, the dirt Aivah probably has on him before he changed his ways, plus his vote to destroy Charis in OAR are enough to merit his execution.

It will be interesting to see what sort of punishment the EoC gives him...

This also works as long as at least some jail time is included.

Don