Talk:Sky People/Delinquents/@comment-27607065-20160129032508/@comment-26269248-20160129034820

I'd like to believe (for the sake of argument) that maybe when The Ark/Council started this whole given minors a trial when they turn 18 (maybe a decade or so before the series begins) that they would pardon those who committed minor crimes, but as the years went on they became less lenient to even minor offenses and would pardon fewer and fewer criminals. Going off a comment I wrote along time ago, I would guess that prisoners like Finn would have been floated while Octavia might have been pardoned, but Clarke and Wells I'm not sure about since they did break the law but were the children of the Council. Finally, this goes back to a comment I wrote how in a deleted scene for BMHBP2, Kane commented on how the Mountain Men extracting the bone marrow of the Delinquents was torture, so I guess even the Sky people didn't enjoy executing minors (unless you count the original plan in Twilight's Last Gleaming where he was up for killing 100s of people, including some children in their sleep but was changed so minors who volunteered could live).