I'm at a point in my Fanfiction where Max betrayed the Pokémon Resistance and his fate of being executed or not is inthe hands of one of the main Characters, named John. should Max be executed of be asked why he betrayed the Pokémon Resistance and be reformed to help the P.M.R.
On the one hand, rehabilitation is a very important thing in real world society that is sorely needed if we want to ever address the phsyical and economical issue of crime, but on the other, a large amount of fiction seems to suffer from the "knowing how it ends from the start" syndrome because main characters almost never ever die, and no one has escaped that more thoroughly than George Martin with Game of Thrones, so you have options either way