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* In ''[[Les Misérables]]'' the situation is reversed, with the heroic revolutionaries deciding to execute the spy [[Inspector Javert]]. Jean Valjean requests that he be allowed to execute him personally as a reward for his services in the defence of the barricade. He takes him out of sight, fires a pistol into the ground and tells Javert to run.
* In the first full ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novel a riot breaks out on the ship he's assigned to. In the aftermath he can't have anyone executed (since it would destroy morale, and more importantly make him likely to suffer an [[Unfriendly Fire|"accident"]] on the battlefield) but the captain wants blood (he was in a relationship with one of the military police killed in the riot). So Cain lets the captain hold a tribunal (the defendants of which are found guilty) and sentences them to "death" by transferring them to a penal legion to die in battle.
* Xanth Filatine from ''[[The Edge Chronicles]]''. As a part of his [[Heel Face Turn]], he shoots the rope tethering the protagonist's ship instead of into Rook himself, allowing Rook to flee from the [[Mook
* In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Harry Potter]]'', Draco refuses to admit the prisoner was Harry. Later, Narcissa crosses this trope with [[Death Faked for You]] and tells Voldemort that Harry is dead.
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