Joanna

[noobcommando]

Not being able to brutally murder or at least express an honest opinion as the protagonist for what she has done is horrible writing. People die horribly all the time in this game yet the ones responsible either get to live or even let go by the party. Questionable.

The punishment must be at leat equivalent to the crime.
I´m sure a lot of people will disagree but i´m at an age were being naive is no longer an option.

[Emerald Lance]

But she was killed though. >. >

[pixet]

Though people don't agree with the writing, I saw the scene as juggling two perspectives at once. Yes, she was responsible for an atrocious crime, but at the same time, as highlighted by Heismay, she was a grief-stricken woman who lost a child of her own, and presumably lost all sense of reality. She consciously makes up for it with her life, paying off the party's trust in the end.

That came across as the mature perspective to me, but to each their own.

[Outpost Omega 5]

As for Joanna's part in the overall tragedy, while it's my usual believe that execution is an undervalued punishment and life sentences are pointless wastes of tax payer money, this is one of the few cases where I think a life sentence in a prison for non-violent criminal's would have been the appropriate recourse.

What Joanna did is unforgivable. Letting her go free is NOT the solution. However, considering BOTH the destruction of her sanity at the betrayal and murder of her infant child as well as her genuine remorse in the end, executing her was a step to far. After all it was societies warped and twisted views that destroyed her sanity, so society can pay the taxes to support her life sentence in a jail. Also, given her repentance, the jail selected should be, well, not pleasant (it is a jail after all), but not the one of the ones used for violent and irrational prisoners.

Where the complete and total failure of Justice occurred was nothing happening to the maid servant who committed the murder. Joanna's family should also should have hung right along side the maid servant for their tacit approval of murder. If even one of those two parties had been held fully accountable, MAYBE Joanna wouldn't have had her mental breakdown.
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Side note: Before somebody calls me on a misuse of the word "Jail" instead of "Prison", I'm sure their are differences between the two, but I don't know what they are. To me, they are both place where you reward criminals with room and board funded by tax payer dime rather than just executing them and being done with it. Not that EVERY crime should end in a death sentence, there are always exceptions to the norm, but we need to stop rewarding crime.

[BahamutXero]

Originally posted by Outpost Omega 5:

Side note: Before somebody calls me on a misuse of the word "Jail" instead of "Prison", I'm sure their are differences between the two, but I don't know what they are. To me, they are both place where you reward criminals with room and board funded by tax payer dime rather than just executing them and being done with it. Not that EVERY crime should end in a death sentence, there are always exceptions to the norm, but we need to stop rewarding crime.

Preach! It's gotten to the point where the prisoners have more rights than the law abiding citizens. It's a really disturbing situation. I haven't gotten to this point in the game yet, but I don't really care about being spoiled. I think the appropriate sentence would be a kind of home confinement like Lucretia had in Suikoden V. She was locked in her room, but it was a pretty nice room.