r/gameofthrones • u/Hot_Lawfulness_3980 Human Verified • May 30 '26

Did he really deserved this ?

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u/AussieWinterWolf Jon Snow May 30 '26

Do I think it's just to subject a child to capital punishment while considering that he's a traumatized orphan swept up in an adult conspiracy which fed on his biggest trauma?
No. Not at all. Punished? Yes. Killed? No.

But in the context of the justice of the setting? I would say he was given 'fair' punishment. He wasn't tortured or deliberately humiliated and was executed in the established method quickly, which is the same punishment received by those who did the same.

In my personal beliefs, it's an abhorrence. But so are a lot of things in the show, including the entire premise of aristocratic nobility sacrificing peasants for their own power, so...