History Main / NoMercyForMurderers

** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2'':

** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3'':
*** Case 1 has [[spoiler:Kaede killing Rantaro to expose the mastermind. Executed, and for a bonus kick in the teeth, it wasn't even actually Kaede that did him in, but rather Tsumugi, the actual mastermind.]]

* In ''Woman Art Thou Loosed'', the protagonist, Michelle, is a woman with a very troubled past. As a child, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend, and when she told the mother, she eventually sided with her boyfriend after she confronted him, he angrily denied it, and [[ManipulativeBastard he threatened to leave her, even citing how no one else will want her since she's overweight.]] The trauma and grief from this causes her to develop a drug addiction and become a prostitute who eventually finds redemption through Reverend Jakes' ministry. She eventually meets up with her estranged mother and the boyfriend in his church, who are still together (and he still denies ever raping her), and she's still so afraid of him, she shoots him dead in the pulpit. In spite of her reasons, she is ''still'' [[DownerEnding sent to death row.]]

* In the ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "Blackout", the doer, the daughter of the EvilMatriarch who had previously molested her brother and was now attempting to do the same to her teenage son, drowns her to protect him. At the end, in spite of her remorse, her confession, and her sympathetic reasons, she is still arrested to her, her brother and son's anguish.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', poor Orpheus, poet and seer, had been stuck as a disembodied head for centuries, unable to care for himself and forced to rely on a poor, isolated Greek family to bring him food and move him about his temple so that he can have the occasional change of scenery. When his father Oneiros came to visit him, seeking answers about where his long-lost brother had gone, Orpheus agreed to provide answers, but in exchange, his father had to agree to kill him. Oneiros is nothing if not a man of his word, and thus killed Orpheus, but in doing so, he committed filicide, a grave sin among the Ancient Greeks, and thus aroused the wrath of the Furies, setting in motion the events that would lead to his death.

* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', Zedar was doomed by fate to Durnik as part of the complicated prophetic interplay between the forces of good and evil, and explicitly said that he didn't want to do it, and because of this, he suffers a truly horrifying fate, even though Durnik is later resurrected.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' has this trope by default, since characters are forced to participate in Class Trials to vote for the killer in order to save themselves.

*** Case 5 has [[spoiler:Chiaki unknowingly killing Nagito due to his plan to expose the mastermind. Executed with Monomi.]]

*** Case 2 has [[spoiler:Kirumi killing Ryoma to save her country. Executed]]
*** Case 4 has [[spoiler:Gonta killing Miu to keep the secret of the outside world from classmates. Executed.]]
*** Case 5 has [[spoiler:Kaito and Kokichi collaborating to end the killing game. Kaito is executed.]]

! Examples:

*** Case 1 has [[spoiler:Kaede killing Rantaro to expose the mastermind. Executed]]

Sympathy is a great emotion that can save many people from being victims of circumstances, including bad things like killing a man. After all, not every murder is the same. Character might not only regret what he's done, he might have been forced to kill against his will! [[{{WellThisIsNotThatTrope}} Not for this guy, though]]. This killer is being punished without [[{{SympatheticIndex}} symphatetic considerations]]. The result may vary: he may face a court that announce prison sentence (or even death penalty) as if he didn't have any defence for this action or he may be killed by someone seeking [[{{RevengeTropes}} revenge]], who will not care about his reasons for killing his people. What matters is that their case had a reason to rethink about character's fate, but [[{{AllForNothing}} it didn't change anything]].

ManslaughterProvocation is a SubTrope where character killed someone due to provocations of his victim.

* ''Film/{{M}}'': Serial killer Hans Beckert is kidnapped by the Berlin mob, who hold a mock trial over whether to kill him or hand him over to the police. Beckert gives an impassioned speech denouncing them as hypocrites who have no right to judge him, saying that he's driven to kill by uncontrollable compulsions, while they're all criminals by choice. He's unsuccessful in swaying them, however, and he's about to be lynched by the criminal crowd when the police burst in.

* In ''Literature/AThousandSplendidSuns'', Mariam kills her husband Rasheed to stop him from killing his other wife, Laila, after they had both endured years of horrendous abuse from him. Mariam turns herself into the authorities so Laila and her children can go free. Mariam tells the judges everything that Rasheed did to them and says she's certain Rasheed would've killed them both if she'd let him live. Although one judge is sympathetic to Mariam, they all say they cannot show her leniency (which isn't surprising given this [[NoWomansLand Afghanistan under the Taliban]]) and sentence Mariam to death. Mariam had already been prepared for this outcome, willing to give up her own life to save Laila. Part of her even believes it's "fair" because while Rasheed was an awful person, she did still commit murder and took away a little boy's father.

* ''Literature/TheGreenMile'': Paul Edgecomb, the warden was forced to carry out Coffey's execution. He'd even given Coffey a chance to escape, though even he noted that it would have cost him his job at the least and that it wouldn't have been likely that Coffey, given his immense size and his gentle demeanor, would have gotten far anyway. Coffey refused to escape, and allowed himself to be executed. But before he died, he gave a bit of his power to Edgecomb, in order to show him that it was the prisoner Wild Bill who had killed the two girls, which is why he'd had cruel guard Percy Whetmore inflicted with a demon that had infected the wife of Paul's boss, causing Whetmore to gun down Wild Bill. That bit of power had prolonged Paul Edgecomb's life by leaps and bounds, and he was not sure how much longer he had to live before he would be allowed to die, but a mouse, Mr. Jingles, who had also gotten a bit of Coffey's power, had survived '''''decades''''' with a much smaller dose of that power

* ''Music/BobMarley'': "[[AntiPoliceSong I Shot the Sheriff]]" focuses on Marley's character recounting how the titular Sheriff, [[DirtyCop John Brown]], always hated him for some unknown reason, and kept [[EvilIsPetty killing any seeds he planted before they grew]], until finally he confronted Marley in the street, clearly planning to shoot him, so Marley had to resort to KillingInSelfDefense. He repeatedly maintains that he ''didn't'' shoot the Deputy, though, and ends the song declaring, "[[DefiantToTheEnd If I am guilty, I will pay!]]"

** ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', as title says, has cases where Justice is given to All, even SympatheticMurderer:
*** Case 2 has [[spoiler:Ini Miney, who through very unfortunate series of events not only kills many people in the hospital, but also loses her face and sister and forced to change her identity. In order to not let this identity to be revealed, she had to murder. Arrested like every other culprit worse than her.]]
*** Case 3 has [[spoiler:Acro, who lost his legs and his brother got into coma. This, combined with Regina's honest belief that his brother became a star, angered him and cause him to do the murder. Arrested like any other culprit worse than him.]]

*** Case 5 has [[spoiler:Chiaki unknowingly killing Nagito due to his plan to expose mastermind. Executed with Monomi.]]

*** Case 4 has [[spoiler:Gonta killing Miu to keep the secret of outside world from classmates. Executed.]]

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