Beneath a Scarlet Sky - 4. Toward the end, Pino is given a chance to execute Major General Leyers, but he doesn't.

[Carol]

4) Toward the end, Pino is given a chance to execute Major General Leyers, but he doesn't I take it. Why do you think that is and what would you have done if given that choice / opportunity?

[Robin]

It shows that Pino is a good person and no matter how much he probably wanted to do so he doesn't because he's already witnessed so much needless deaths and knows it won't change anything. I don't know that I could've killed him either if given such opportunity even if I hated him or anyone else.

[Cindy]

Again, I HOPE I would have made the right choice. I don't think we can know until we've lived it.

[Barb]

I think this was another TRUE measure of his character and his love of God.

[Chelsea]

I think the only reason he didn't kill him was because Leyers told Pino it was Pino's fault that Anna and Dolly were executed. I think that shook him out of his homicidal stupor because it rang true a little bit. He probably didn't want to be the cause of any more death.

I don't think I could kill anybody. It takes a lot of hate and rage to do something like that I think.

[Carol]

I've thought quite a bit about the loss of my mother. Could I have taken the guys that killed her? I wonder if I could have. I've pondered this more than once over the last thoughts. Hmmm.

[Angela]

I agree with Chelsea. I would also add that there was still enough uncertainly that it was hard to know if he deserved it.