The only thing I could think of that would make sense as to why the killed him instead of some other punishment is to maintain groupthink. If you step out of line you die. So you don’t ever step out of line. You sacrifice yourself to community, and when there’s lines being drawn for what you can and can’t do, you more easily fall into things that you wouldn’t normally do. Kinda like a cult. Lots of organizations use fear as a tactic.
I mean yeah that's fine and all that everyone has to fall in line and odd ones out gets hammered down BUT they could've given a little more thought into the lines they were drawing in the first place lol
Stealing medicine for the hounds? Get a lifetime of hound duty until zombies kill you. Kill or grape? Death sentence. Like most post apocalyptic communities in games or tv shows have this sort of logical thinking, idk it just cheapens the experience. But eh, the seggs is good
Uhh does severity not exist in this town? Like, equal punishment for the crime and not just straight up death like tf. Like, he couldve just been put on scavenger duty for a month or something since medicine is exclusively for the hounds, he's gonna have to be one. Tf u gon do orphaning a kid and sowing resentment