He was unarmed and wounded and received no trial. Brienne sentences him to die in the name of Renly Baratheon, 'the one true king' even though Renly never had a very strong claim to the throne. I know that Westeros is full of far more evil characters, but that is kind of the point, Brienne is always lauded as the opposite of this.
shareI really liked Stanis. Yeah, I know he sacrificed his daughter, but dude was a badass. He took his execution like a man. I've never really warmed to Brienne, but I'm not sure where she could have taken him for a trial. Where is the authority in Westeros at that time? King's Landing? That wouldn't have worked out. And I agree on Renly. He had no legit claim to the throne.
shareIt's her duty. Even Stannis understood that.
shareI can't stand Brienne, but if Stannis is going to march a bunch of people onto the field to die, he damn sure isn't above that same fate.
shareRenly was a traitor to his brother, who was the lawful heir. She had no authority to judge Stannis. If she did actually kill him, it was murder.
shareSorry but show Stannis wasn't much to root for..He was weak and power hungry and allowing all the manipulation by Melisandre and burning alive his own sweet trusting daughter was enough for me to hope for his end however I could get it.
His death was just too merciful.
I loathed Stannis, and cheered when he got the chop. He would have made a worse king that Joffrey.
No, really, I'm absolutely serious about that!
Joffrey was a sadistic little bastard who liked to kill people for fun, but he was evil in a small, petty, stupid, and personal sort of way. Stannis's great weakness was that he couldn't compromise, not even in the smallest detail, with him it was his way or the burning stake - or war. If a man who can't compromise is put on the throne of a nation where the nobility thinks they have rights, then execution, war, and rebellion are absolutely inevitable. And that was without Melisandre convincing him that he had to bring the worship of the Red God to Westeros, and if he'd gone there it'd have meant religious warfare and mass burnings. If Joffrey liked to murder prostitutes in the basement every day and execute everyone who came him for "justice", his body count wouldn't have been a thousandths of Stannis's.