[ Oh come on, Midna, give him the tea... Honestly, he's already done some investigating of his own, so what's a little confirmation bias? ]

I admit there may have been extenuating circumstances such as self-defense, and I wouldn't expect people in this place to abide by standard humanitarian law, to begin with. However, there is a line between necessary action and cruelty. For instance, I have heard of a grown man who tossed a teenager into a portal of some sort, during the last Oracle trial. As a result, the teenager--

[ There's the sense of a queasy feeling over Communion. His stomach is surprisingly frail for a cold-blooded murderer-- but to be fair, his jobs aren't usually quite as gory as: ]

--um, exploded, is how I believe the locals described it. At the very least, a cleaner death would've been preferable.