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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2553621" data-attributes="member: 707">The campaign setting comes into this.  In my campaign, yes.  If you aren't defending your life, and have taken a group of evil humans prisoner, it's evil to then kill them.  They can change their ways, and there are prisons (horrible as they are) in the world where these people can be incarcerated, and perhaps find their way back to the Light.In the campaign I play in, the Free Holds are locked in a mortal struggle with the Evil Empire (not exactly the most original premise, but fun. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)  The law of the Free Holds sentences any Imperial soldier found on FreeHold lands to death, and in such a struggle for survival, the DM has ruled that putting enemy soldiers to death is not evil.  I play a paladin in this game, and when we captured human Imperial soldiers at one point in the campaign, the paladin demanded to be the one to execute the prisoners.  He made certain it was as merciful as possible, offering the soldiers the chance to write letters to their loved ones, making the death as painless as it could be, and seeing the bodies returned to their families.</blockquote>